Patents by Inventor Shinji Tabata

Shinji Tabata 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: 12203589
    Abstract: A display mounting device includes a supporting pillar and a supporting pillar fixture. A display is mounted on the supporting pillar. The supporting pillar fixture is installed on a floor surface and coupled with the supporting pillar. In an extending direction of the supporting pillar, the display is detachably attached to a first end of the supporting pillar, and the supporting pillar fixture is coupled with a second end of the supporting pillar opposite to the first end in a rotatable manner. The supporting pillar fixture includes a rotation support that supports the supporting pillar in a rotatable manner. The rotation support allows for rotation of the supporting pillar within a range of angles between a first state where the extending direction of the supporting pillar is parallel to the floor surface and a second state where the extending direction of the supporting pillar is perpendicular to the floor surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hikaru Watanabe, Shinji Tabata
  • Publication number: 20230120537
    Abstract: A display mounting device includes a supporting pillar and a supporting pillar fixture. A display is mounted on the supporting pillar. The supporting pillar fixture is installed on a floor surface and coupled with the supporting pillar. In an extending direction of the supporting pillar, the display is detachably attached to a first end of the supporting pillar, and the supporting pillar fixture is coupled with a second end of the supporting pillar opposite to the first end in a rotatable manner. The supporting pillar fixture includes a rotation support that supports the supporting pillar in a rotatable manner. The rotation support allows for rotation of the supporting pillar within a range of angles between a first state where the extending direction of the supporting pillar is parallel to the floor surface and a second state where the extending direction of the supporting pillar is perpendicular to the floor surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Hikaru WATANABE, SHINJI TABATA
  • Patent number: 10809815
    Abstract: There is provided a display guidance apparatus including a liquid crystal display apparatus and a protective glass unit. A light receiving sensor is provided inside the liquid crystal display apparatus. The protective glass unit disposed to face a front surface side of a front casing frame of the liquid crystal display apparatus includes protective glass having a buffer member attached to the peripheral edge thereof. A light guide film is provided in a gap between the buffer member and the front surface side of the front casing frame, and an end surface at one end thereof is exposed from the gap to a display surface side of the liquid crystal display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinji Tabata
  • Publication number: 20190064935
    Abstract: There is provided a display guidance apparatus including a liquid crystal display apparatus and a protective glass unit. A light receiving sensor is provided inside the liquid crystal display apparatus. The protective glass unit disposed to face a front surface side of a front casing frame of the liquid crystal display apparatus includes protective glass having a buffer member attached to the peripheral edge thereof. A light guide film is provided in a gap between the buffer member and the front surface side of the front casing frame, and an end surface at one end thereof is exposed from the gap to a display surface side of the liquid crystal display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventor: SHINJI TABATA
  • Patent number: 9264560
    Abstract: A cause identifying device includes a modifying unit and an identifying unit. The modifying unit, in a case in which an inexpedience is detected in an image formed on a print medium by conducting multiple processes, modifies processing content conducted during the image formation by modifying a processing parameter of a partial process or disabling a partial process. The identifying unit identifies a cause of the inexpedience on the basis of information obtained from an image formed on a print medium by image formation conducted after the processing content is modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Mori, Jun Koyatsu, Shinsuke Sugi, Toshio Koriyama, Yoshiki Matsuzaki, Shinji Tabata
  • Patent number: 9237673
    Abstract: A holding mechanism of a display device includes a first arm, a second arm and a damper. The first arm and the second arm hold the display device in such a manner that the display device is capable of being displaced between a first disposition in which a lower edge portion of the display device is away from a placing face with a display screen facing to a front and a second disposition in which the lower edge portion is in contact with the placing face with the display screen facing more upward than in the first disposition. The damper applies, to the first arm, a force that buffers a force by which the display device is liable to displacement from the first disposition to the second disposition due to self-weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinji Tabata
  • Publication number: 20150227825
    Abstract: Provided is an image adjusting apparatus, including an acceptable adjustment factor acquisition unit that acquires acceptable adjustment factors which are factors for adjusting an image forming unit and adjustment factors accepted to a user who performs an image adjustment, an examination result acquisition unit that acquires an examination result of an image formed by the image forming unit, and a real adjustment factor selection unit that selects real adjustment factors which are factors for actually performing an image adjustment with respect to the image forming unit among the acceptable adjustment factors based on the acquired examination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Toshio KORIYAMA, Shinji TABATA, Shinsuke SUGI, Jun KOYATSU, Kenji MORI
  • Publication number: 20150103382
    Abstract: A cause identifying device includes a modifying unit and an identifying unit. The modifying unit, in a case in which an inexpedience is detected in an image formed on a print medium by conducting multiple processes, modifies processing content conducted during the image formation by modifying a processing parameter of a partial process or disabling a partial process. The identifying unit identifies a cause of the inexpedience on the basis of information obtained from an image formed on a print medium by image formation conducted after the processing content is modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Kenji MORI, Jun KOYATSU, Shinsuke SUGI, Toshio KORIYAMA, Yoshiki MATSUZAKI, Shinji TABATA
  • Patent number: 8970890
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a level selecting unit, an image quality adjusting unit, and an image forming unit. The level selecting unit selects one of a plurality of levels each distributed to one of a plurality of adjustment items affecting an image quality determining factor that determines image quality. The plurality of adjustment items are different from each other. The image quality adjusting unit adjusts a value of each of the adjustment items belonging to the level selected by the level selecting unit and any other level shallower than the selected level such that the image quality corresponding to the image quality determining factor approaches predetermined image quality. The image forming unit forms an image having image quality according to the value adjusted by the image quality adjusting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugi, Jun Koyatsu, Kenji Mori, Shinji Tabata, Yoshiki Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20140376036
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a level selecting unit, an image quality adjusting unit, and an image forming unit. The level selecting unit selects one of a plurality of levels each distributed to one of a plurality of adjustment items affecting an image quality determining factor that determines image quality. The plurality of adjustment items are different from each other. The image quality adjusting unit adjusts a value of each of the adjustment items belonging to the level selected by the level selecting unit and any other level shallower than the selected level such that the image quality corresponding to the image quality determining factor approaches predetermined image quality. The image forming unit forms an image having image quality according to the value adjusted by the image quality adjusting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke SUGI, Jun KOYATSU, Kenji MORI, Shinji TABATA, Yoshiki MATSUZAKI
  • Publication number: 20140346292
    Abstract: A holding mechanism of a display device includes a first arm, a second arm and a damper. The first arm and the second arm hold the display device in such a manner that the display device is capable of being displaced between a first disposition in which a lower edge portion of the display device is away from a placing face with a display screen facing to a front and a. second disposition in which the lower edge portion is in contact with the placing face with the display screen facing more upward than in the first disposition. The damper applies, to the first arm, a force that buffers a force by which the display device is liable to displacement from the first disposition to the second disposition due to self-weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinji TABATA
  • Patent number: 8593695
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: a first storage portion that stores patterns used for matching with edge portions of a linear image included in an input image, the patterns having respective different sizes, and each of the patterns being composed of pixels and including a target pixel corresponding to a pixel to be deleted in the linear image; a selection portion that selects a pattern having a size according to a line width of a line thinning process to the linear image, from the stored patterns; a pattern detection portion that matches the selected pattern with the linear image while shifting the selected pattern, and detects whether the selected pattern is matched with the linear image; and a deletion portion that, when the matching result is detected, deletes the pixel in the linear image corresponding to the target pixel in the selected pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Tabata, Toshifumi Takahira
  • Patent number: 8441664
    Abstract: A detection system includes: an acquiring unit that acquires document data representative of a document which includes a plurality of pages; a selector that selects, for each page of the document, a first printing sheet which contains a detected element or a second printing sheet which does not contain the detected element such that the first printing sheet is selected for at least one page; a supplier that supplies the first or the second printing sheet selected by the selector; a printer that sequentially prints the document acquired by the acquiring unit on the printing sheets supplied by the supplier; a detector that detects a detected element contained in a printing sheet on which the document is printed by the printer; and a reporter that reports detection of the detected element in a printing sheet by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mario Fuse, Shoji Yamaguchi, Yasunori Koda, Shinji Tabata, Kunihiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8275167
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including: an image information acquisition unit that acquires image information representing an image obtained by reading a recording medium containing one or a plurality of detectable substances; an extraction unit that extracts an image corresponding to the detectable substances from the image information acquired by the image information acquisition unit; a computation unit that computes feature quantities of distribution of the detectable substances in the recording medium based on the image corresponding to the detectable substances extracted by the extraction unit; and a memory that stores the feature quantities computed by the computation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Tabata, Shinji Sasahara
  • Patent number: 8270035
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a generating unit and an output unit. The generating unit generates image data on the basis of which an image forming unit forms a visible image on a recording medium containing detectable substances using only a coloring material having a spectral reflection factor that is different in a particular wavelength range from a spectral reflection factor that the detectable substances have by a predetermined threshold or more. The output unit outputs the image data generated by the generating unit to the image forming unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Shinji Tabata, Shinji Sasahara
  • Publication number: 20120019871
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: a first storage portion that stores patterns used for matching with edge portions of a linear image included in an input image, the patterns having respective different sizes, and each of the patterns being composed of pixels and including a target pixel corresponding to a pixel to be deleted in the linear image; a selection portion that selects a pattern having a size according to a line width of a line thinning process to the linear image, from the stored patterns; a pattern detection portion that matches the selected pattern with the linear image while shifting the selected pattern, and detects whether the selected pattern is matched with the linear image; and a deletion portion that, when the matching result is detected, deletes the pixel in the linear image corresponding to the target pixel in the selected pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji TABATA, Toshifumi Takahira
  • Patent number: 7899238
    Abstract: An image processing device comprises: an obtaining unit that obtains a first image data set expressing a first face of a sheet-type material in which one or more objects to be tested is embedded, and a second image data set expressing a second face opposite to the first face; and a specifying unit that specifies a condition of the embedded one or more objects to be tested in the sheet-type material, depending on the first and second image data sets obtained by the obtaining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Tabata
  • Publication number: 20090092279
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including: an image information acquisition unit that acquires image information representing an image obtained by reading a recording medium containing one or a plurality of detectable substances; an extraction unit that extracts an image corresponding to the detectable substances from the image information acquired by the image information acquisition unit; a computation unit that computes feature quantities of distribution of the detectable substances in the recording medium based on the image corresponding to the detectable substances extracted by the extraction unit; and a memory that stores the feature quantities computed by the computation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Tabata, Shinji Sasahara
  • Publication number: 20090091799
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a generating unit and an output unit. The generating unit generates image data on the basis of which an image forming unit forms a visible image on a recording medium containing detectable substances using only a coloring material having a spectral reflection factor that is different in a particular wavelength range from a spectral reflection factor that the detectable substances have by a predetermined threshold or more. The output unit outputs the image data generated by the generating unit to the image forming unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji TABATA, Shinji SASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20080304098
    Abstract: A detection system includes: an acquiring unit that acquires document data representative of a document which includes a plurality of pages; a selector that selects, for each page of the document, a first printing sheet which contains a detected element or a second printing sheet which does not contain the detected element such that the first printing sheet is selected for at least one page; a supplier that supplies the first or the second printing sheet selected by the selector; a printer that sequentially prints the document acquired by the acquiring unit on the printing sheets supplied by the supplier; a detector that detects a detected element contained in a printing sheet on which the document is printed by the printer; and a reporter that reports detection of the detected element in a printing sheet by the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mario FUSE, Shoji YAMAGUCHI, Yasunori KODA, Shinji TABATA, Kunihiro TAKAHASHI