Patents by Inventor Osamu Yoshimura
Osamu Yoshimura 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: 8934464Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication device which includes a function information transmitting unit for transmitting, via a wireless communication network, function information relating to a function of the wireless communication device, a function information receiving unit for receiving function information transmitted from another device, a function information comparison unit for comparing the function information of the wireless communication device and the function information received from such other device, and a function determination unit for determining which of the wireless communication device and such other device is to play a function of an access point, based on a result of the comparison by the function information comparison unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2010Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masahiko Naito, Katsutoshi Itoh, Osamu Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20140365931Abstract: A method for controlling a mouse cursor in this invention includes: upon detecting an event that represents a focus was moved between plural objects displayed on a screen, identifying an object of a movement destination of the focus; identifying a position of the object of the movement destination; setting an end point to which a mouse cursor is moved, based on the identified position of the object of the movement destination; and performing first movement of the mouse cursor to a position that is nearer to the end point, plural times, until the position of the mouse cursor reaches the end point.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventor: Osamu YOSHIMURA
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Patent number: 8892023Abstract: An image forming apparatus acquires an amount of deflection of the transporting sheet from a reference position thereof and calculates a required shift amount of the sheet. It determines whether or not the sheet is shifted frontward. If so, the image forming apparatus acquires a second specified shift value which is determined based on an urging force and the required shift amount using a second correction equation. Alternatively, if the sheet is shifted backward, the image forming apparatus acquires a first specified shift value which is determined based on the urging force and the required shift amount using a first correction equation. The image forming apparatus performs a registration roller shift correction based on the acquired first or second specified shift value.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Yusuke Kawanago, Takahiro Okubo, Masahiro Matsuo, Yoshiteru Kawakami, Haruki Motegi, Osamu Yoshimura, Kunihiro Kawachi, Ken Nonaka
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Publication number: 20140064813Abstract: An improved image forming apparatus is described in which, even when a conveyance unit is switched from a pressure engaged state to a disengaged state, misalignment of a sheet during conveyance can be inhibited. A control unit conveys a sheet between a transfer unit and paper stop rollers, while forming a loop of the sheet therebetween, by setting the speed of conveying the sheet passing between the paper stop rollers to be higher than the speed of conveying the sheet passing through the transfer unit. In addition to this, when the pair of rollers serving as the paper stop rollers are switched from a pressure engaged state to a disengaged state, the paper stop rollers are controlled to reduce the speed of conveying the sheet therethrough in advance of this switching operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Osamu YOSHIMURA, Masahiro MATSUO, Yoshiteru KAWAKAMI
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Publication number: 20130142525Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing section, a de-curling section, and a control section. The de-curling section has a de-curling nip portion that presses a sheet to correct a curl caused in the sheet, and a corrective force thereof to press the sheet changes at least in two steps. The control section increases the conveyance speed of the sheet after a rear end of the sheet has passed the fixing nip portion when the de-curling section supports by sandwiching the sheet with a weakly-pressing force. When the de-curling section supports by sandwiching the sheet with a strongly-pressing force, the controller increases the conveyance speed of the sheet after the rear end of the sheet has passed the fixing nip portion and the de-curling nip portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventors: Ken NONAKA, Yoshiteru KAWAKAMI, Takahiro OKUBO, Haruki MOTEGI, Masahiro MATSUO, Yusuke KAWANAGO, Osamu YOSHIMURA
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Publication number: 20130136218Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, a method, and a program capable of suppressing deterioration of content quality. An integrated reception buffer time adjustment unit 114 obtains a maximum transmission delay time that is the longest delay time among the transmission delays of data transmission performed by each reception unit 113. The reception buffer time setting unit 208 calculates a reception buffer time using the maximum transmission delay time, a transmission delay time of the data transmission by the reception unit 113, and a prescribed reception buffer time. The reception buffer time setting unit 208 sets various delay times and waiting times such as a variable compression encoding delay time, a redundant encoding block reception waiting time, an ARQ retransmission packet waiting time, and a network jitter handling buffer time from the reception buffer time. The present invention can be applied to an information processing apparatus, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2011Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshinobu Kure, Hideaki Murayama, Tamotsu Munakata, Chihiro Fujita, Osamu Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20130108283Abstract: Provided is a method for forming an image containing the steps of: supplying a clear toner on a surface of an image forming support; heating the supplied clear toner on the surface of the image forming support to melt; close contacting the surface of the image forming support supplied with the clear toner with a belt; and cooling the clear toner in a state of close contacting with the belt so as to form a clear toner layer on the image forming support, wherein the aforesaid clear toner contains at least a resin formed with a polymerizable monomer represented by Formula (1) and a vinyl monomer, Formula (1): H2C?CR1—COOR2, wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and R2 represents a chain alkyl group having 12 to 22 carbon atoms, or a cyclic alkyl group.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2012Publication date: May 2, 2013Inventors: Yusuke KAWANAGO, Takahiro OKUBO, Masahiro MATSUO, Yoshiteru KAWAKAMI, Haruki MOTEGI, Osamu YOSHIMURA, Kunihiro KAWACHI, Ken NONAKA
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Publication number: 20120327444Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image forming unit to form an image on a paper in an image forming position; a transportation path to transport the paper to the image forming position; an acquisition unit arranged upstream of the image forming position in a paper transportation direction and to acquire a shift amount from an edge reference position to an edge of the paper in a paper width direction perpendicular to the paper transportation direction; a pair of resist rollers arranged upstream of the acquisition unit in the paper transportation direction and capable of swinging in the paper width direction; and a control unit configured to determine an instruction value based on a paper state and the shift amount before the pair of resist rollers moves, and to move the pair of resist rollers in accordance with the instruction value in the paper width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Yusuke KAWANAGO, Takahiro OKUBO, Masahiro MATSUO, Tarou MIYAMOTO, Osamu YOSHIMURA, Kunihiro KAWACHI, Ken NONAKA
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Publication number: 20120300612Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including a communication unit that receives first communication data transmitted from a transmitting apparatus to a first receiving apparatus through unicast and second communication data transmitted from the transmitting apparatus to a second receiving apparatus, respectively and a processing unit that processes processing data included in the received first communication data and second communication data. When there is missing data in either of first processing data included in the first communication data and second processing data included in the second communication data, the processing unit executes processing using the other processing data in which there is no missing data, and the processing unit does not make the communication unit transmit a reply with respect to external apparatuses.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Itagaki, Hideki Iwami, Tomoya Yamaura, Osamu Yoshimura, Chihiro Fujita
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Publication number: 20120256965Abstract: There is provided a display control device, including a communication section for communicating with an external device, a position specification section for specifying positions of an imaging device, which captures an image, and a display device, which displays the image, a process determination section for determining whether to cause the captured image to be reversed in a horizontal direction on the basis of the positions of the display device and the imaging device and a processing section for selectively reversing the captured image in the horizontal direction, wherein the processing section causes the display device to display the image reversed in the horizontal direction by reversing the captured image in the horizontal direction, if the image is determined to be reversed in the horizontal direction, and causes the display device to display the captured image, if the image is determined not to be reversed in the horizontal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideki Iwami, Tomoya Yamaura, Osamu Yoshimura
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Patent number: 8281510Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a decorative illumination signboard capable of effectively downwardly emitting light while suppressing an upward emission of light with a simple configuration and a plastic sheet used in the decorative illumination signboard. The object can be accomplished by a plastic sheet having optical transparency which includes an exit surface and an incident surface on which a plurality of prism lines having a flat and smooth surface are arranged to be aligned. A shape of the prism in a cross-section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the prism line is formed by a side A on a lower side at an angle of ? degrees to a normal line of the exit surface and a side B on an upper side at an angle of ? degrees to the normal line of the exit surface and ?<?, and 40 degrees???80 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2009Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Kuraray Co., Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Yoshimura, Tatsuya Ueda
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Publication number: 20120254354Abstract: There is provided a communication device including a communication unit configured to receive communication data transmitted/received between a transmitting device and a receiving device that is a transmission target of transmission data transmitted by the transmitting device by unicast, a data determination unit configured to determine data to be used for a process from among the received communication data, and a processing unit configured to process the data determined to be used for the process. The processing unit, in processing the determined data, prevents the communication unit from responding to the transmitting device or the receiving device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideki IWAMI, Osamu YOSHIMURA, Tomoya YAMAURA, Katsutoshi ITOH
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Publication number: 20120250547Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a data transmission unit that transmits data to one or more receiving terminals; and a communication mode determination unit that determines a communication mode in which the data is transmitted from the data transmission unit, wherein the communication mode determination unit selects a first communication mode in which unicast communication is used when the number of receiving terminals to which the data is transmitted is equal to or less than a predetermined number, and selects a second communication mode in which unicast communication is performed to one or some of receiving terminals as a destination and the other receiving terminals than the destination also receive packets in unicast communication when the number of receiving terminals to which the data is transmitted exceeds the predetermined number.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Chihiro Fujita, Hideki Iwami, Osamu Yoshimura
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Patent number: 8160505Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes a transmitting portion to transmit a data signal to other wireless communication apparatus, a receiving portion to receive a reception confirmation signal indicating reception of the data signal by the other wireless communication apparatus from the other wireless communication apparatus during a specified period, a determination portion to determine that a predetermined requirement is satisfied if the receiving portion receives a given signal during the specified period, and a control portion to control the transmitting portion to request the other wireless communication apparatus to retransmit the reception confirmation signal if the receiving portion does not normally receive the reception confirmation signal and the determination portion determines that the predetermined requirement is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2008Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Osamu Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20120039194Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an adjustment unit that adjusts respective lengths of delay times, which delay data transmission, for a plurality of different delay elements regarding the data transmission, so as to match with the longest delay time of the plurality of delay times or a predetermined time equal to or more than the longest delay time, and a setting unit that sets the respective plurality of delay times of which the lengths are adjusted by the adjustment unit in a processing unit which performs a process for the data transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshinobu Kure, Hideaki Murayama, Tamotsu Munakata, Chihiro Fujita, Osamu Yoshimura
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Patent number: 8116217Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus having a wireless communication function capable of using a plurality of transmission rates. The wireless communication apparatus includes utilization-factor calculation section for calculating a utilization factor of a wireless transmission path through which wireless communication is performed using the wireless communication function and determination section for determining a transmission rate at least on the basis of the utilization factor calculated by the utilization-factor calculation section.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shigenori Uchida, Katsutoshi Itoh, Noboru Oki, Osamu Yoshimura, Masahiko Naito
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Publication number: 20110305281Abstract: A receiver includes a receiving section that receives communication packets transmitted from a transmitter, which transmits the communication packets each including encoded data, and an image header, sequentially from the encoded data corresponding to the beginning of an image, a first accumulating section that accumulates the encoded data and the image header included in each of the received communication packets, a detecting section that detects a picture header transmitted together with the encoded data corresponding to the beginning of the image, from the image header of each of the received communication packets, in a predetermined observation interval, a second accumulating section that accumulates the detected picture header, and a control section that reads out the picture header accumulated in the second accumulating section, and causes the picture header to be accumulated into the first accumulating section, if the picture header is not detected within the observation interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2011Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Osamu Yoshimura, Hideki Iwami, Chihiro Fujita, Hideaki Murayama, Tamotsu Munakata, Yoshinobu Kure
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Publication number: 20110280634Abstract: A fixing device includes a heating member to heat a sheet on which a toner image is supported; a pressing member to contact with the heating member so as to form a nip portion; a temperature detecting sensor to detect a temperature of the heating member without contacting with a surface of the heating member; and an air separating section to separate the sheet from the heating member by blowing air from a outlet to the sheet conveyed out from the nip portion, wherein the heating member is arranged to interrupt a straight line which connects the outlet and the temperature detecting sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Osamu YOSHIMURA, Shougo FUKAI
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Publication number: 20110249181Abstract: Disclosed herein is a transmitting device, including: a reproduction time information adding portion configured to add reproduction time information specifying timing of reproduction of data as an object of transmission to the data; a control time information adding portion configured to add control time information specifying control timing when circuit control is performed on a circuit, the data being to be transmitted through the circuit, to data transfer control information; and a transmitting portion configured to transmit data to which the reproduction time information and the control time information are added.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: HIDEKI IWAMI, OSAMU YOSHIMURA, CHIHIRO FUJITA, SATOSHI TSUBAKI, YOSHINOBU KURE
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Publication number: 20110088299Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a decorative illumination signboard capable of effectively downwardly emitting light while suppressing an upward emission of light with a simple configuration and a plastic sheet used in the decorative illumination signboard. The object can be accomplished by a plastic sheet having optical transparency which includes an exit surface and an incident surface on which a plurality of prism lines having a flat and smooth surface are arranged to be aligned. A shape of the prism in a cross-section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the prism line is formed by a side A on a lower side at an angle of ? degrees to a normal line of the exit surface and a side B on an upper side at an angle of ? degrees to the normal line of the exit surface and ?<?, and 40 degrees???80 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2009Publication date: April 21, 2011Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Osamu Yoshimura, Tatsuya Ueda