Patents by Inventor Noriko Arai
Noriko Arai 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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Patent number: 11140299Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a gradation correction section that performs output gradation correction with respect to input multi-value image data; a conversion section that converts the multi-value image data, which is acquired after the output gradation correction is performed by the gradation correction section, into binary image data; a storage section that stores the multi-value image data or the binary image data; and a control section that performs control such that the multi-value image data, which is acquired before the output gradation correction is performed, is stored in the storage section in a case where content of the input image data is content which requires the output gradation correction, and such that the binary image data is stored in the storage section in a case where the content of the input image data is content which does not require the output gradation correction.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Noriko Arai, Shinji Hanaoka, Chihiro Matsuguma, Tatsuya Namiki, Yurie Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20190246010Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a gradation correction section that performs output gradation correction with respect to input multi-value image data; a conversion section that converts the multi-value image data, which is acquired after the output gradation correction is performed by the gradation correction section, into binary image data; a storage section that stores the multi-value image data or the binary image data; and a control section that performs control such that the multi-value image data, which is acquired before the output gradation correction is performed, is stored in the storage section in a case where content of the input image data is content which requires the output gradation correction, and such that the binary image data is stored in the storage section in a case where the content of the input image data is content which does not require the output gradation correction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriko ARAI, Shinji HANAOKA, Chihiro MATSUGUMA, Tatsuya NAMIKI, Yurie ISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 10277781Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an extraction unit, a memory controller, and a transfer unit. The extraction unit extracts, on the basis of image information, pieces of color information having a high frequency of occurrence as color information that is necessary to perform image processing. The memory controller causes a first memory to store a color information group including the pieces of color information extracted by the extraction unit. The transfer unit transfers the color information group from the first memory to a second memory, an access time of the second memory being shorter than an access time of the first memory.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yurie Ishikawa, Noriko Arai, Kenji Ueda, Chihiro Matsuguma, Tatsuya Namiki
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Patent number: 10021272Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes an image data obtaining unit, a foreign material position information obtaining unit, and a separation processor. The image data obtaining unit obtains image data read from a document passing over a read area. The foreign material position information obtaining unit obtains foreign material position information read from the read area in which the document is not present. The separation processor separates the image data into plural objects including a background object, detects, by using the foreign material position information, a streak image portion caused by foreign material in the read area and included in the image data, and assumes a pixel of the streak image portion to belong to the background object if the pixel is present in the background object and has a pixel value equal to or smaller than a threshold determined in accordance with a representative value of the background.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Namiki, Chihiro Matsuguma, Noriko Arai, Kenji Ueda, Yurie Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20180077321Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an extraction unit, a memory controller, and a transfer unit. The extraction unit extracts, on the basis of image information, pieces of color information having a high frequency of occurrence as color information that is necessary to perform image processing. The memory controller causes a first memory to store a color information group including the pieces of color information extracted by the extraction unit. The transfer unit transfers the color information group from the first memory to a second memory, an access time of the second memory being shorter than an access time of the first memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yurie ISHIKAWA, Noriko ARAI, Kenji UEDA, Chihiro MATSUGUMA, Tatsuya NAMIKI
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Publication number: 20170280017Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes an image data obtaining unit, a foreign material position information obtaining unit, and a separation processor. The image data obtaining unit obtains image data read from a document passing over a read area. The foreign material position information obtaining unit obtains foreign material position information read from the read area in which the document is not present. The separation processor separates the image data into plural objects including a background object, detects, by using the foreign material position information, a streak image portion caused by foreign material in the read area and included in the image data, and assumes a pixel of the streak image portion to belong to the background object if the pixel is present in the background object and has a pixel value equal to or smaller than a threshold determined in accordance with a representative value of the background.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2016Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya NAMIKI, Chihiro MATSUGUMA, Noriko ARAI, Kenji UEDA, Yurie ISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20170068969Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores an association program causing a computer to function as: an extracting unit that extracts a person, a container, and a product from an image captured by a camera; a first specification unit that specifies a movement of the product being transferred into or from the container; and an association unit that associates a person who has a predetermined relationship with the container into or from which the product is transferred in a case where the first specification unit specifies the movement of the product being transferred into or from the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2016Publication date: March 9, 2017Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriko ARAI, Sei AMAGAI, Hiroyoshi UEJO, Kenji UEDA, Chihiro MATSUGUMA
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Patent number: 8634116Abstract: An image reading device includes a reading unit, a first correcting unit, and a second correcting unit. The reading unit includes multiple read pixel-arrays and converts a signal charge obtained from pixels in each read pixel-array to an electric signal and outputs the electric signal as a read signal of each read pixel-array. The first correcting unit individually delays the read signals of the respective read pixel-arrays output from the reading unit so as to correct misregistration of the read signals. The second correcting unit corrects the misregistration of the read signals of the respective read pixel-arrays corrected by the first correcting unit by performing a two-point interpolation process so that a correction amount for the read signal of one specific read pixel-array among the multiple read pixel-arrays is not smaller than a correction amount for the read signal or signals of the remaining read pixel-array or pixel-arrays.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2011Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sei Amagai, Noriko Arai, Kenji Ueda, Shinji Hanaoka, Chihiro Matsuguma, Atsushi Sato
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Publication number: 20120176654Abstract: An image reading device includes a reading unit, a first correcting unit, and a second correcting unit. The reading unit includes multiple read pixel-arrays and converts a signal charge obtained from pixels in each read pixel-array to an electric signal and outputs the electric signal as a read signal of each read pixel-array. The first correcting unit individually delays the read signals of the respective read pixel-arrays output from the reading unit so as to correct misregistration of the read signals. The second correcting unit corrects the misregistration of the read signals of the respective read pixel-arrays corrected by the first correcting unit by performing a two-point interpolation process so that a correction amount for the read signal of one specific read pixel-array among the multiple read pixel-arrays is not smaller than a correction amount for the read signal or signals of the remaining read pixel-array or pixel-arrays.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2011Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Sei AMAGAI, Noriko ARAI, Kenji UEDA, Shinji HANAOKA, Chihiro MATSUGUMA, Atsushi SATO
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Patent number: 7854405Abstract: There is provided a document destruction apparatus including: a destruction section that destroys documents; a conveyance section that conveys documents to the destruction section a page at a time; a reading section that is disposed partway along the conveyance section and that, from a document to which identification information for identifying the document has been applied to each page at at least one of a conveyance direction leading end side and trailing end side, reads the identification information at each page; and an alteration section that, in a case in which the identification information has been read at the conveyance direction leading end side by the reading section, alters a conveyance direction of the page that has been read such that the page will be conveyed from the conveyance direction trailing end side.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2008Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shintaro Adachi, Tsutomu Kimura, Noriko Arai, Kenji Yamada
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Patent number: 7574044Abstract: An image processing apparatus has an extracting unit, a dividing unit and a text searching unit. The extracting unit extracts a text part from an image. The dividing unit classifies text in the text part based on color information of the text. The text searching unit searches the text based on the color information.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2005Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Hayashi, Toshiyuki Yamada, Yoshitake Matsubara, Kiyotaka Tsuchibuchi, Noriko Arai, Junichi Shimizu
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Publication number: 20090078806Abstract: There is provided a document destruction apparatus including: a destruction section that destroys documents; a conveyance section that conveys documents to the destruction section a page at a time; a reading section that is disposed partway along the conveyance section and that, from a document to which identification information for identifying the document has been applied to each page at at least one of a conveyance direction leading end side and trailing end side, reads the identification information at each page; and an alteration section that, in a case in which the identification information has been read at the conveyance direction leading end side by the reading section, alters a conveyance direction of the page that has been read such that the page will be conveyed from the conveyance direction trailing end side.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2008Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Shintaro ADACHI, Tsutomu Kimura, Noriko Arai, Kenji Yamada
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Publication number: 20060104512Abstract: An image processing apparatus has an extracting unit, a dividing unit and a text searching unit. The extracting unit extracts a text part from an image. The dividing unit classifies text in the text part based on color information of the text. The text searching unit searches the text based on the color information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2005Publication date: May 18, 2006Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Hayashi, Toshiyuki Yamada, Yoshitake Matsubara, Kiyotaka Tsuchibuchi, Noriko Arai, Junichi Shimizu