Patents by Inventor Shunichi Kimura

Shunichi Kimura 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).

  • Publication number: 20220373844
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, in a display device, a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode overlap with a first electrode which includes a first branch portion that is exposed from between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, a second electrode includes a first trunk portion, a second branch portion, and a second trunk portion, the second branch portion overlaps with the first pixel electrode, a light-shielding layer includes a first opening portion, a second opening portion, and a light-shielding portion located between the first and second opening portions, the first opening portion overlaps with the second branch portion, and the light-shielding portion overlaps with the first branch portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shunichi KIMURA, Toshiharu MATSUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220263957
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: display, on one screen, information written or entered at multiple predetermined items and a read result of reading the information from the items such that which piece of the information and the read result is displayed is changeable on a per item basis; and perform a function of assisting a user to at least verify or correct the read result on the one screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shunichi KIMURA, Masanori SEKINO, Satoshi KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20220253638
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to extract a specific text string from a text string which is a text recognition target, calculate a reliability degree of text recognition for the specific text string, and output the reliability degree as a reliability degree of text recognition for an entirety of the text string which is the text recognition target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shunichi KIMURA, Yutaka KOSHI
  • Patent number: 11410408
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to execute first acquisition processing for acquiring a first recognition result and a first recognition probability on target data from a first recognizer, execute second acquisition processing for acquiring a second recognition probability for the first recognition result on the target data from a second recognizer, and execute control for determining which of first processing and second processing with a necessary human workload greater than in the first processing is to be executed for the first recognition result based on the first recognition probability and the second recognition probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shunichi Kimura, Masanori Sekino, Satoshi Kubota, Yutaka Koshi
  • Publication number: 20220221763
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a high contrast display with liquid crystal display device using a liquid crystal light valve. A representative structure is as follows. A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight, and a liquid crystal light valve; the light valve includes a plurality of first electrodes extending in a first direction and formed on the first substrate; a first insulating film is formed on the first electrode; a plurality of second electrodes are formed in a matrix at predetermined intervals on the first insulating film; a second insulating film is formed on the second electrodes; a plurality of third electrodes extending in a second direction are formed on the second insulating film; the liquid crystal is sandwiched between the third electrodes and the second substrate; the predetermined interval between the second electrodes is 2 to 10 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Shunichi KIMURA, Toshiharu MATSUSHIMA, Shinichi KOMURA
  • Patent number: 11361529
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to obtain, for each character of plural characters recognized from an image, (a) position of the character in the image, (b) size of the character, and (c) confidence level of a character recognition result of the character; and determine whether to regard the character as a noise based on a distance between the character and its nearest character, the size of the character, and the confidence level of the character recognition result of the character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Beili Ren, Shunichi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20220091464
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a common electrode and a pixel electrode, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a first alignment film and a second alignment film. The pixel electrode includes a plurality of branch portions extending in a first direction and a connection portion extending in a second direction, wherein the first alignment film and the second alignment film are photo-alignment films, and the first alignment film has an anchoring strength of 1*10?3J/m2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shunichi KIMURA, Toshiharu MATSUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 11258925
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiver that receives an input image to be recognized and a processor configured to, by executing a program, align the input image with a template image in such a way as to match a recognition area of the input image and a recognition area defined on the template image, perform a process for recognizing the recognition area of the aligned input image, generate a check image including the template image and the aligned input image, and display the check image and a result of the process for recognizing the recognition area of the aligned input image such that a correspondence between the check image and the result is recognizable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shunichi Kimura, Masanori Sekino
  • Publication number: 20210306518
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiver that receives an input image to be recognized and a processor configured to, by executing a program, align the input image with a template image in such a way as to match a recognition area of the input image and a recognition area defined on the template image, perform a process for recognizing the recognition area of the aligned input image, generate a check image including the template image and the aligned input image, and display the check image and a result of the process for recognizing the recognition area of the aligned input image such that a correspondence between the check image and the result is recognizable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Shunichi KIMURA, Masanori SEKINO
  • Patent number: 11100356
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a character recognition section that performs character recognition of an input image to output a character recognition result, a receiving section that receives an input of a character recognition result by a person on the input image, a detection section that detects a strikethrough from the input image, a matching section that matches the character recognition result output by the character recognition section with the character recognition result by the person, which is received by the receiving section, and a control section that performs control for causing the matching section to perform matching so as to obtain a final character recognition result based on a result of the matching, in a case where the detection section detects the strikethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shunichi Kimura, Masanori Sekino, Takuya Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11084260
    Abstract: A composite sheet material includes a skin sheet and a woven fabric, wherein the skin sheet is formed by impregnating an elastic polymer into a base material consisting of an entangled fiber network, such as a nonwoven fabric, and wherein the composite sheet material has high thermal resistance and high formability suitable for integral molding. The composite sheet material is a composite sheet material including a skin sheet attached with a woven fabric through an adhesive resin layer, wherein the skin sheet is made of an entangled fiber network including ultra-fine fibers with an average single fiber diameter of 0.1 to 8 ?m and of an elastic polymer, and wherein the woven fabric includes polyester fibers in which the polyester contains a 1,2-propanediol-derived component at a concentration of 1 to 500 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shunichi Kimura, Gen Koide, Makoto Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11042695
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains a number of times of data inputting required for each of plural input items to which operators are to input data and an input screen information generation unit that generates, for the operators on a basis of the obtained number of times of data inputting, input screen information to which the operators are to input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shunichi Kimura, Satoshi Kubota, Takuya Sakurai, Yutaka Koshi
  • Patent number: 10997452
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first character recognition section that performs character recognition of an input image on an assumption that a character in the input image belongs to a first character type and outputs a first character recognition result being a result of the character recognition, a second character recognition section that performs character recognition of the input image on an assumption that the character in the input image belongs to a second character type and outputs a second character recognition section being a result of the character recognition, the second character type being a set obtained by adding at least one or more characters which do not belong to the first character type to a set of characters belonging to the first character type, and a matching section that performs matching of the first character recognition result with the second character recognition result, and, in a case where it is found that the first character recognition result does not match w
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunichi Kimura, Masanori Sekino, Takuya Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20210124970
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to execute first acquisition processing for acquiring a first recognition result and a first recognition probability on target data from a first recognizer, execute second acquisition processing for acquiring a second recognition probability for the first recognition result on the target data from a second recognizer, and execute control for determining which of first processing and second processing with a necessary human workload greater than in the first processing is to be executed for the first recognition result based on the first recognition probability and the second recognition probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunichi KIMURA, Masanori SEKINO, Satoshi KUBOTA, Yutaka KOSHI
  • Publication number: 20210124991
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire a first recognition result and a first recognition probability on target data from a first recognizer, acquire a second recognition result and a second recognition probability on the target data from a second recognizer, execute checking of the first recognition result and the second recognition result, and execute first control in a case where the first recognition result and the second recognition result match each other as a result of the checking. The first control is control for executing either of first processing or second processing on the matched recognition result and outputting a processing result based on at least one of the first recognition probability or the second recognition probability. A human workload for the first processing is smaller than a human workload for the second processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunichi Kimura, Yutaka Koshi, Masanori Sekino, Satoshi Kubota
  • Patent number: 10977301
    Abstract: A search apparatus includes a character string acquisition unit that acquires a character string recognized by a character recognition device, a search unit that sends to an information source the character sting as a search key and retrieves search result information responsive to the search key out of information stored on the information source, a determining unit that determines whether an error factor including at least one of a cause for an erroneous search and an erroneous search result is present, and a job switching unit that requests a manual input job to be performed to input a search key that is to replace the character string if the determining unit has determined that the error factor is present, and requests a verification job to be performed on the search result information if the determining unit has determined that the error factor is not present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shunichi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10963684
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires process information associated with a reference image and regarding an input process performed by referencing the reference image, and a process decision unit that decides a content of a next input process to perform by referencing the reference image, on a basis of the process information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunichi Kimura, Masanori Sekino, Satoshi Kubota, Takuya Sakurai
  • Patent number: 10948792
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal display panel, a back light and a light control panel set between the liquid crystal panel and the back light comprising: the light control panel comprises a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein a plurality of first signal wirings 11, an insulating film, and a first electrode of plenary shape are formed in this order on the first substrate, the signal wiring 11 is made of a first transparent conductive film, the first electrode is made of a second transparent conductive film, the second electrode is made of a third transparent conductive film, a dummy wiring 50 made of a same material as the first transparent conductive film is formed on a layer that the signal wirings 11 are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Shunichi Kimura, Toshiharu Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20210070024
    Abstract: A composite sheet material includes a skin sheet and a woven fabric, wherein the skin sheet is formed by impregnating an elastic polymer into a base material consisting of an entangled fiber network, such as a nonwoven fabric, and wherein the composite sheet material has high thermal resistance and high formability suitable for integral molding. The composite sheet material is a composite sheet material including a skin sheet attached with a woven fabric through an adhesive resin layer, wherein the skin sheet is made of an entangled fiber network including ultra-fine fibers with an average single fiber diameter of 0.1 to 8 ?m and of an elastic polymer, and wherein the woven fabric includes polyester fibers in which the polyester contains a 1,2-propanediol-derived component at a concentration of 1 to 500 ppm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Shunichi Kimura, Gen Koide, Makoto Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10885857
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a first substrate includes a pixel electrode, a common electrode and a sub-pixel area including a first area and a second area. The first area includes an area where the pixel electrode exists, an axial area extending in a second direction, and branch areas extending from the axial area to a first side of the first direction. The second area includes an area where the pixel electrode does not exist, and a first gap area extending in the first direction, at a position between the adjacent branch areas. A maximum value of a first voltage applied to the pixel electrode in a first mode is higher than a maximum value of a second voltage applied to the pixel electrode in a second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shunichi Kimura, Toshiharu Matsushima