Patents by Inventor Shigeru UEKUSA

Shigeru UEKUSA 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: 10440227
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a first matching circuit to determine whether an image matrix of image data of a first resolution matches a first pattern, and output a first determination result; a first converting circuit to, if the image matrix matches the first pattern, replace a target pixel of the image matrix with a first pixel pattern of a second resolution, and output first image data of the second resolution; a second converting circuit to convert the image data of the first resolution into image data of the second resolution, and output second image data of the second resolution; a detecting circuit to detect whether the target pixel is included in a fine line structure, and output a detection result; and a selecting circuit to output one of the first image data and the second image data based on the first determination result and the detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Uekusa, Hayato Fujita, Muneaki Iwata
  • Patent number: 9989590
    Abstract: A self-test circuit is driven by a multiphase clock signal which includes N number of clock signals in same cycle having phases from first to N-th phases each phase-shifted by 1/N of the cycle. The self-test circuit includes a data selecting circuit, a serialization circuit, and a logical test circuit. The data selecting circuit switches input data that are input as M-bit wide parallel data to the self-test circuit, between normal data and test data for logical test. The serialization circuit performs serial conversion of the input data in N-parallel manner and outputs bits in N-parallel manner, as a single serial output signal at timing corresponding to each phase. In synchronization with timing corresponding to each phase, the logical test circuit imports the serial output signal as N-parallel bit strings each having length equal to M/N number of bits and performs a bit logical test for M number of bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeru Uekusa
  • Publication number: 20170339309
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a first matching circuit to determine whether an image matrix of image data of a first resolution matches a first pattern, and output a first determination result; a first converting circuit to, if the image matrix matches the first pattern, replace a target pixel of the image matrix with a first pixel pattern of a second resolution, and output first image data of the second resolution; a second converting circuit to convert the image data of the first resolution into image data of the second resolution, and output second image data of the second resolution; a detecting circuit to detect whether the target pixel is included in a fine line structure, and output a detection result; and a selecting circuit to output one of the first image data and the second image data based on the first determination result and the detection result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru UEKUSA, Hayato FUJITA, Muneaki IWATA
  • Publication number: 20170003344
    Abstract: A self-test circuit is driven by a multiphase clock signal which includes N number of clock signals in same cycle having phases from first to N-th phases each phase-shifted by 1/N of the cycle. The self-test circuit includes a data selecting circuit, a serialization circuit, and a logical test circuit. The data selecting circuit switches input data that are input as M-bit wide parallel data to the self-test circuit, between normal data and test data for logical test. The serialization circuit performs serial conversion of the input data in N-parallel manner and outputs bits in N-parallel manner, as a single serial output signal at timing corresponding to each phase. In synchronization with timing corresponding to each phase, the logical test circuit imports the serial output signal as N-parallel bit strings each having length equal to M/N number of bits and performs a bit logical test for M number of bits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeru UEKUSA