Patents by Inventor Satoshi Nakayama

Satoshi Nakayama 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: 11524513
    Abstract: A conveyance apparatus includes a plurality of conveyors and an image reader. The plurality of conveyors conveys a recording material. The image reader reads a pattern image on the recording material being conveyed. The conveyance apparatus further includes circuitry to control the image reader. The circuitry controls the image reader to read the pattern image on the recording material in a period including a timing at which a trailing edge of the recording material being conveyed by at least two of the plurality of conveyors exits an upstream conveyor among the at least two of the plurality of conveyors in a direction of conveyance of the recording material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohta Aoyagi, Hideyo Makino, Susumu Mikajiri, Kimiharu Yamazaki, Yoshinari Onuma, Satoshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11521395
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program capable of making it easier to recognize standing objects. Movement transformation of moving a subject position where a subject appears in a target image to be processed is performed, depending on a subject distance from a vanishing point in the target image to the subject position. The present technology can be applied to, for example, the image processing and the like of an image taken by a camera unit onboard a vehicle or other moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20220321708
    Abstract: A reading apparatus includes a reading device and processing circuitry. The reading device reads a recording medium. The processing circuitry outputs maintenance information based on read information read by the reading device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tohru MATSUMOTO, Kohta AOYAGI, Tatsuya ISHII, Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Satoshi NAKAYAMA, Ryosuke EBINUMA, Ryoh ISHITSUKA
  • Publication number: 20220318582
    Abstract: A reading apparatus includes a reading device and circuitry. The reading device reads a recording medium in a direction intersecting a conveyance direction of the recording medium. The circuitry detects a reference image for cutting processing of the recording medium, based on read information read by the reading device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya ISHII, Kohta AOYAGI, Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Tohru MATSUMOTO, Satoshi NAKAYAMA, Ryosuke EBINUMA, Ryoh ISHITSUKA
  • Publication number: 20220291618
    Abstract: An image reading device includes an image reader and circuitry. The image reader is configured to read an image on a recording medium. The circuitry is configured to obtain defective image information and defect type information based on the image on the recording medium read by the image reader, and determine an abnormality of the image on the recording medium based on the defective image information and the defect type information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Kohta AOYAGI, Tatsuya ISHII, Tohru MATSUMOTO, Satoshi NAKAYAMA, Ryosuke EBINUMA, Ryoh ISHITSUKA
  • Publication number: 20220286572
    Abstract: An image inspector includes a recording device and circuitry. The reading device is configured to read an image on a recording medium. The circuitry is configured to determine whether the recording medium has a wrinkle and an edge folding based on a plurality of positions on the image on the recording medium read by the reading device satisfying a predetermined relation. The circuitry is configured to determine whether the recording medium has the wrinkle based on the predetermined relation, and then determine whether the recording medium has the edge folding based on the predetermined relation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi NAKAYAMA, Tohru MATSUMOTO, Kohta AOYAGI, Ryosuke EBINUMA, Ryoh ISHITSUKA, Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Tatsuya ISHII
  • Publication number: 20220286576
    Abstract: An image inspecting device includes an abnormality detector and circuitry. The abnormality detector is configured to detect an abnormality of an inspection object image. The circuitry is configured to set a non-detection area to be excluded from a detection object area within which the abnormality detector detects an image abnormality and set an area including an abnormality detection portion as the non-detection area when a detection result obtained by the abnormality detector satisfies a non-detection condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoh ISHITSUKA, Kohta AOYAGI, Ryosuke EBINUMA, Satoshi NAKAYAMA, Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Tohru MATSUMOTO, Tatsuya ISHII
  • Publication number: 20220263963
    Abstract: An image abnormality detecting device includes an image reader, an abnormality detector, a pattern holder, and circuitry. The image reader is configured to read an image on a recording medium. The abnormality detector is configured to detect abnormality of the image based on read information of the image on the recording medium, read by the image reader. The pattern holder has a check pattern and is disposed within a reading area of the image reader. The circuitry is configured to inspect a detecting operation of the abnormality detector based on read information of the check pattern read by the image reader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohta AOYAGI, Tohru MATSUMOTO, Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Satoshi NAKAYAMA, Ryosuke EBINUMA, Ryoh ISHIZUKA, Tatsuya ISHII
  • Patent number: 11397880
    Abstract: A conveyance device includes a conveyance roller pair to convey a recording medium to an image reading position of an image reading unit. The conveyance roller pair includes a drive roller and a driven roller. The driven roller contacts the drive roller and rotates following the drive roller. The drive roller has a diameter satisfying a relation in which a detection mark on the recording medium is on a position away from a leading end of the recording medium by an integral multiple of a circumference of the drive roller in a conveyance direction of the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimiharu Yamazaki, Hideyo Makino, Susumu Mikajiri, Satoshi Nakayama, Kohta Aoyagi, Hiroki Yamamura
  • Publication number: 20220219932
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a reader, a transparent member, an opposing member, first and second conveyance rotators, and circuitry. The reader reads a sheet. The transparent member is disposed between the reader and the sheet. The opposing member is disposed facing the reader via the transparent member. The first conveyance rotator is disposed upstream from the reader in a conveyance direction of the sheet. The second conveyance rotator is disposed downstream from the reader in the conveyance direction. The circuitry cause the first conveyance rotator and the second conveyance rotator to convey a cleaning sheet at respective conveying speeds different from each other and bring the cleaning sheet into contact with at least one of the transparent member or the opposing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Hideyo MAKINO, Susumu MIKAJIRI, Tohru MATSUMOTO, Satoshi NAKAYAMA, Kohta AOYAGI, Ryosuke EBINUMA, Tatsuya ISHII
  • Patent number: 11360422
    Abstract: A position detector includes a reading device, a position reference member having a mark opposite the reading device, and circuitry. The circuitry controls the reading device to detect the contour of the processing target and the position of the image pattern on the processing target and the position of the mark and corrects a processing position for the processing target to offset distortion of the reading device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nikaku, Masamoto Nakazawa, Ryohma Ikemoto, Osamu Inage, Tatsuya Ishii, Satoshi Iwanami, Hideyo Makino, Kimiharu Yamazaki, Kohta Aoyagi, Satoshi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20220148138
    Abstract: An vehicle-mounted camera apparatus is an vehicle-mounted camera apparatus capable of imaging at least one of a front, a rear, and a side of a vehicle, and includes a lens, an image capture device unit that converts light imaged by the lens into an electrical signal to generate a captured image, and a light shielding unit that shields a light ray corresponding to a part of an image capture region of the image capture device unit on an incident surface side of the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: SATOSHI NAKAYAMA, YOSHIKAZU OHNAMI
  • Publication number: 20220130024
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image; a superimposition unit that generates a superimposition image in which images are superimposed on unused areas of the captured image; and a determination unit that determines a state of the captured image on the basis of characteristics of areas on which the images are superimposed in the superimposition image transmitted from the superimposition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11310382
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a transparent member unit including a transparent member, an opposing member opposed to the transparent member, and a reading mechanism. The reading mechanism irradiates the opposing member and a medium being conveyed between the transparent member and the opposing member with light through the transparent member and receive reflected light from the opposing member and the medium. The reading mechanism includes a position adjuster to which the transparent member unit is secured and a guide to guide the transparent member unit in a direction intersecting a direction of conveyance of the medium to detachably attach the transparent member unit to the reading mechanism. The position adjuster changes a position at which the transparent member unit is secured with respect to the reading mechanism. The transparent member unit is secured to the position adjuster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakayama, Susumu Mikajiri, Kimiharu Yamazaki, Tohru Matsumoto, Kohta Aoyagi, Hideyo Makino, Ryosuke Ebinuma
  • Patent number: 11286851
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine configured to combust, by means of a combustor, a compressed air obtained through compression by a compressor, and drive a turbine with use of high-temperature and high-pressure combustion gas generated by the combustion, the gas turbine engine including: a plurality of air passages through which different portions in the gas turbine engine communicate with one another; and a switching device configured to switch air flow paths between the plurality of air passages, wherein the plurality of air passages are each formed by an air pipe disposed outside a compressor casing, and the switching device is mounted to an outer surface of the compressor casing via a heat insulation member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakayama, Akihisa Oka, Hiroki Seike
  • Patent number: 11153453
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a background member, an illumination unit opposed to the background member, and a reader. The illumination unit emits light to a recording medium having an image thereon. The reader receives a reflection from the recording medium to read the image. The background member has a facing surface that faces the recording medium. The facing surface includes a reference portion on a center portion in a width direction of the background member. The reference portion has a higher reflectance than an end portion of the facing surface in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakayama, Susumu Mikajiri, Hideyo Makino, Yoshinari Onuma, Kimiharu Yamazaki, Kohta Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20210297543
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a transparent member unit including a transparent member, an opposing member opposed to the transparent member, and a reading mechanism. The reading mechanism irradiates the opposing member and a medium being conveyed between the transparent member and the opposing member with light through the transparent member and receive reflected light from the opposing member and the medium. The reading mechanism includes a position adjuster to which the transparent member unit is secured and a guide to guide the transparent member unit in a direction intersecting a direction of conveyance of the medium to detachably attach the transparent member unit to the reading mechanism. The position adjuster changes a position at which the transparent member unit is secured with respect to the reading mechanism. The transparent member unit is secured to the position adjuster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi NAKAYAMA, Susumu MIKAJIRI, Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Tohru MATSUMOTO, Kohta AOYAGI, Hideyo MAKINO, Ryosuke EBINUMA
  • Patent number: 11126124
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a plurality of image reading units arranged at different positions in a width direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of a recording medium to read an image on the recording medium at image reading positions and a conveyance roller pair that conveys the recording medium to the plurality of image reading units. The conveyance roller pair includes a drive roller and a driven roller that contacts the drive roller and rotates following the drive roller. The plurality of image reading units includes an upstream and a downstream image reading units downstream from the upstream image reading unit in the conveyance direction. A reading interval between the image reading positions and a diameter of the drive roller satisfy the relation: X2=n1×?×D1a, where X2 represents the reading interval, n1 represents an integer, and D1a represents the diameter of the drive roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimiharu Yamazaki, Hideyo Makino, Susumu Mikajiri, Satoshi Nakayama, Hiroki Yamamura, Kohta Aoyagi, Tohru Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11089229
    Abstract: Automatic exposure control of an in-vehicle camera is performed under dark driving environments such as at night. An in-vehicle camera system includes a vehicle camera mounted in a vehicle configured to capture surroundings of the vehicle, and control circuitry that controls an exposure level of an image captured by the vehicle camera, the control of the exposure level being based on brightness information of a detection area set within the image, the detection area being a portion of the captured image and configured to output the image having exposure control performed thereon to a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20210224976
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing system by which a user can easily recognize a position of a sensor having a defect from among sensors mounted on a vehicle. Position-related information about a relative position or direction with respect to a vehicle is acquired, and a combined image obtained by combining a defect image representing a position of the sensor having a defect from among the sensors mounted on the vehicle with a vehicle image reflecting the vehicle is displayed in response to the position-related information. The present technology can be applied so that a user can recognize a sensor having a defect from among the sensors mounted on a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: KOTA YONEZAWA, SATOSHI NAKAYAMA