Patents by Inventor Shoichi Nomura

Shoichi Nomura 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: 10235610
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a beam corrector which corrects a gray level of each pixel in image data so as to reduce a density difference due to a misalignment in beam position of laser beams of a multibeam array. The beam corrector includes a calculator which detects an edge of an object between a pixel and adjacent pixels of the pixel in the image data and calculates an edge intensity of the edge. The calculator calculates a corrected gray level of the pixel from the calculated edge intensity and a correction value corresponding to a deviation in beam position of the laser beams emitted according to a gray level of the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nomura
  • Patent number: 10123416
    Abstract: A vehicular wiring structure includes a panel and a printed wiring part. The printed wiring part is arranged such that in a flat face of the panel, a conductive member is printed on the flat face directly. The printed wiring part is arranged such that in a non-flat face of the panel, a film on which a conductive member is printed is pasted to the non-flat face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichi Nomura, Gaku Ito, Taku Furuta, Shuji Kimura, Tomoaki Sasaki, Masahiro Ito, Mitsunori Tsunoda, Eiji Shimochi
  • Patent number: 10079958
    Abstract: A printed material processing device includes: a feature information extracting unit configured to compare read printed-material image information obtained by reading a printed material, and extract a portion equivalent to a difference between the two sets of information as feature information; an image generating unit configured to generate an image of a mark to be additionally printed near a location of the feature information, set first information indicating a positional relationship between the mark and the feature information, set second information indicating a method of extracting the feature information and a feature quantity to be extracted from the feature information, and generate an image of code information to be additionally printed in a position on the printed material, the code information including the first information and the second information; and an image forming unit configured to additionally print the mark and the code information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nomura
  • Patent number: 10017133
    Abstract: An instrument panel as a vehicular panel includes a panel body on a surface side of which key tops are installed, a printed wiring section arranged on the surface side of the panel body, and an insulation outer layer arranged on the surface side of the panel body so as to cover the printed wiring section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsunori Tsunoda, Gaku Ito, Tomoaki Sasaki, Shuji Kimura, Taku Furuta, Shoichi Nomura
  • Patent number: 9992374
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image processing unit configured to execute, in forming an image on both surfaces of a sheet, image processing including skew correction to deform the image in advance to offset distortion to be caused in the image to be formed on the sheet, wherein, the image processing unit receives specification of any of one side, two sides, and an external form of the sheet, as a reference position of the image processing for the image to be formed on the both surfaces of the sheet, and executes the image processing including the skew correction based on the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nomura
  • Publication number: 20180074431
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a beam corrector which corrects a gray level of each pixel in image data so as to reduce a density difference due to a misalignment in beam position of laser beams of a multibeam array. The beam corrector includes a calculator which detects an edge of an object between a pixel and adjacent pixels of the pixel in the image data and calculates an edge intensity of the edge. The calculator calculates a corrected gray level of the pixel from the calculated edge intensity and a correction value corresponding to a deviation in beam position of the laser beams emitted according to a gray level of the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi NOMURA
  • Patent number: 9807277
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image processing unit configured to execute image processing including skew correction that deforms an image so as to cancel distortion on the image; and a control unit configured to control the image processing on the image processing unit, wherein, in a case where a margin amount available for correcting the distortion is defined as a first correction margin amount and a margin amount used for correction other than skew correction is defined as a second correction margin amount, the control unit calculates a third correction margin amount obtained by subtracting the second correction margin amount from the first correction margin amount, and controls such that the image processing unit executes the image processing including the skew correction toward a first image and a second image such that the skew correction amount to be corrected falls within a range of the third correction margin amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nomura
  • Publication number: 20170253199
    Abstract: An electrical equipment module includes a main line module, a sub module, and a control connector. The main line module includes a main line routing body that is mounted on a vehicle and is routed along a width direction extending member in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle, and branch units that are interposed in the main line routing body. The sub module is connected to the main line module through the branch units, and is subjected to power supply distribution through the main line routing body. The control connector connects the branch units and the sub module, and performs control of an instrument included in the sub module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Mitsunori Tsunoda, Syuji Kimura, Gaku Itou, Taku Furuta, Shoichi Nomura, Naoya Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20170253200
    Abstract: An electrical equipment module includes a main line module that includes a main line routing body that is mounted on a vehicle and is routed along a width direction extending member in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle, a branch portion that is interposed in the main line routing body, and a branch portion retaining member that extends along the width direction extending member and retains the branch portion; and a sub module that is connected to the main line module through the branch portion and is subjected to power supply distribution through the main line routing body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Mitsunori Tsunoda, Syuji Kimura, Gaku Itou, Shoichi Nomura, Taku Furuta, Naoya Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20170215285
    Abstract: A vehicular wiring structure includes a panel and a printed wiring part. The printed wiring part is arranged such that in a flat face of the panel, a conductive member is printed on the flat face directly. The printed wiring part is arranged such that in a non-flat face of the panel, a film on which a conductive member is printed is pasted to the non-flat face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichi NOMURA, Gaku ITO, Taku FURUTA, Shuji KIMURA, Tomoaki SASAKI, Masahiro ITO, Mitsunori TSUNODA, Eiji SHIMOCHI
  • Publication number: 20170210309
    Abstract: An electrical equipment module includes: a main line module that includes a width direction extending member mounted in a vehicle and extending along the vehicle width direction of the vehicle, and a mounting main line section provided in the width direction extending member and including a circuit body mounted with an electronic component; and a submodule that is connected to the main line module and to which power is distributed via the circuit body. With this configuration, the electrical equipment module allows the work of main line routing or the like to be reduced and mounting work to be made more efficient, thereby improving the mountability to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Mitsunori Tsunoda, Syuji Kimura, Gaku Itou, Shoichi Nomura, Taku Furuta, Naoya Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20170151916
    Abstract: An instrument panel as a vehicular panel includes a panel body on a surface side of which key tops are installed, a printed wiring section arranged on the surface side of the panel body, and an insulation outer layer arranged on the surface side of the panel body so as to cover the printed wiring section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsunori TSUNODA, Gaku ITO, Tomoaki SASAKI, Shuji KIMURA, Taku FURUTA, Shoichi NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20170104888
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image processing unit configured to execute image processing including skew correction that deforms an image so as to cancel distortion on the image; and a control unit configured to control the image processing on the image processing unit, wherein, in a case where a margin amount available for correcting the distortion is defined as a first correction margin amount and a margin amount used for correction other than skew correction is defined as a second correction margin amount, the control unit calculates a third correction margin amount obtained by subtracting the second correction margin amount from the first correction margin amount, and controls such that the image processing unit executes the image processing including the skew correction toward a first image and a second image such that the skew correction amount to be corrected falls within a range of the third correction margin amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20170104887
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image processing unit configured to execute, in forming an image on both surfaces of a sheet, image processing including skew correction to deform the image in advance to offset distortion to be caused in the image to be formed on the sheet, wherein, the image processing unit receives specification of any of one side, two sides, and an external form of the sheet, as a reference position of the image processing for the image to be formed on the both surfaces of the sheet, and executes the image processing including the skew correction based on the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nomura
  • Publication number: 20170006181
    Abstract: A printed material processing device includes: a feature information extracting unit configured to compare read printed-material image information obtained by reading a printed material, and extract a portion equivalent to a difference between the two sets of information as feature information; an image generating unit configured to generate an image of a mark to be additionally printed near a location of the feature information, set first information indicating a positional relationship between the mark and the feature information, set second information indicating a method of extracting the feature information and a feature quantity to be extracted from the feature information, and generate an image of code information to be additionally printed in a position on the printed material, the code information including the first information and the second information; and an image forming unit configured to additionally print the mark and the code information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi NOMURA
  • Patent number: 9406337
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a disk array device, a failure path specifying method and a program thereof capable of specifying a physical interconnection path where failures occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shoichi Nomura
  • Patent number: 9036219
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an image-modification processing unit and an adjustment unit. The image-modification processing unit executes first image-modification processing wherein pixels are inserted to or deleted from a subject image in a first direction or pixels in the subject image are shifted in the first direction and second image modification processing wherein pixels in the subject image are shifted in a second direction. The adjustment unit adjusts a position of a shift-border along which the pixels are shifted in the second image-modification processing on the basis of a position of each step in an image caused in the first image-modification processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nomura
  • Patent number: 9019560
    Abstract: An image forming method which is capable of preventing occurrence of moire and forming images having sufficient color saturation and a sufficient gloss is provided. The color toner image is formed in accordance with a color image signal obtained through screen processing using a screen pattern having a screen line count of 50 to 270 lpi on manuscript image data, and the clear toner image is formed in accordance with a clear image signal obtained through contone processing on the manuscript image data. The clear image signal is controlled so that, according to the amount of the color toner per unit area of the stacked toner image obtained by the color toner image being superimposed with the clear toner image, the less the amount of the color toner, the more the amount of the clear toner becomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yasukawa, Shoichi Nomura, Kentarou Mogi, Asao Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20140285820
    Abstract: An image forming method which is capable of preventing occurrence of moire and forming images having sufficient color saturation and a sufficient gloss is provided. The color toner image is formed in accordance with si color image signal obtained through screen processing using a screen pattern having a screen line count of 50 to 270 lpi on manuscript image data, and the clear toner image is formed in accordance with a clear image signal obtained through contone processing on the manuscript image data. The clear image signal is controlled so that, according to the amount of the color toner per unit area of the stacked toner image obtained by the color toner image being superimposed with the clear toner image, the less the amount of the color toner, the more the amount of the clear toner becomes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YASUKAWA, Shoichi Nomura, Kentarou Mogi, Asao Matsushima
  • Patent number: 8801457
    Abstract: A flexible flat cable connecting structure for connecting a flexible flat cable in which a plurality of rectangular conductors are provided in parallel and a plurality of connector terminals arranged at an array pitch different from that of the rectangular conductors comprises an intermediate cable arranging member one end of which is coupled to the connector terminals and in which a plurality of branch conductors are provided in parallel which are set to have mutually different longitudinal dimensions according to the array pitch. The intermediate cable arranging member is laid on the flexible flat cable so that the intermediate cable arranging member and the flexible flat cable are in the same plane and form an angle. The other ends of the branch conductors of the intermediate cable arranging member are connected to the respective rectangular conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shoichi Nomura, Goro Nakamura