Patents by Inventor Syuuichi Takemoto

Syuuichi Takemoto 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: 7755797
    Abstract: In a picture color tone control method and apparatus for a printing press, in order to make it possible to use an IRGB densitometer to perform color tone control even when printing is performed with a density which exceeds an estimated maximum color space, a target color mixture halftone density for each ink supplying unit width when a printing picture is divided with an ink supplying unit width of ink supplying apparatus 6, 7 is set, and an actual color mixture halftone density for each ink supplying unit width of an actually printed sheet obtained by printing is measured using an IRGB densitometer 1. The color mixture halftone densities are individually converted into tone values. Thereupon, for the conversion into actual tone values, the publicly known Neugebauer expression wherein the Yule-Nielsen coefficient n is set to such a value that the tone values and the color mixture halftone density value have a substantially linear relationship to each other is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuo Ozaki, Syuuichi Takemoto, Norifumi Tasaka
  • Patent number: 7573613
    Abstract: A picture color tone controlling method for a printing press is disclosed wherein color tone control can be performed using an IRGB densitometer which requires a lower cost than a spectrometer. A target mixed color halftone density for each ink supplying unit width when a printing picture is divided with an ink supplying unit width of an ink supplying apparatus (6, 7) is set. Then, an actual mixed color halftone density for each ink supplying unit width of a regular printing sheet obtained by printing is measured using an IRGB densitometer (1), and the ink supplying amount is adjusted for each ink supplying unit width so that the actual mixed color halftone density may approach the target mixed color halftone density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Syuuichi Takemoto, Ikuo Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20080216695
    Abstract: In a picture color tone control method and apparatus for a printing press, in order to make it possible to use an IRGB densitometer to perform color tone control even when printing is performed with a density which exceeds an estimated maximum color space, a target color mixture halftone density for each ink supplying unit width when a printing picture is divided with an ink supplying unit width of ink supplying apparatus 6, 7 is set, and an actual color mixture halftone density for each ink supplying unit width of an actually printed sheet obtained by printing is measured using an IRGB densitometer 1. The color mixture halftone densities are individually converted into tone values. Thereupon, for the conversion into actual tone values, the publicly known Neugebauer expression wherein the Yule-Nielsen coefficient n is set to such a value that the tone values and the color mixture halftone density value have a substantially linear relationship to each other is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ikuo Ozaki, Syuuichi Takemoto, Norifumi Tasaka
  • Publication number: 20080018918
    Abstract: The invention relates to picture color tone control for a printing press. A target color mixture halftone density for each ink supplying unit width when a printing picture is divided with an ink supplying unit width of ink supplying apparatus 6, 7 is set, and an actual color mixture halftone density for each ink supplying unit width of an actually printed sheet obtained by printing is measured using an IRGB densitometer 1. The color mixture halftone densities are individually converted into tone values. A changing ratio for the converted target tone values is set suitably and is reflected on the target tone values and then converted into a monochromatic halftone density. Then, a solid density difference corresponding to a difference between the target monochromatic halftone density and an actual monochromatic halftone density is determined, and the ink supplying amount is adjusted for each ink supplying unit width in response to the solid density difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2005
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ikuo Ozaki, Syuuichi Takemoto, Norifumi Tasaka
  • Publication number: 20060092473
    Abstract: A picture color tone controlling method for a printing press is disclosed wherein color tone control can be performed using an IRGB densitometer which requires a lower cost than a spectrometer. A target mixed color halftone density for each ink supplying unit width when a printing picture is divided with an ink supplying unit width of an ink supplying apparatus (6, 7) is set. Then, an actual mixed color halftone density for each ink supplying unit width of a regular printing sheet obtained by printing is measured using an IRGB densitometer (1), and the ink supplying amount is adjusted for each ink supplying unit width so that the actual mixed color halftone density may approach the target mixed color halftone density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD
    Inventors: Syuuichi Takemoto, Ikuo Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20060055948
    Abstract: A picture color tone controlling method and apparatus for a printing press is disclosed by which a noticed pixel for control can be set appropriately and the accuracy in color tone control can be enhanced. For each of ink supplying unit widths, a region which has a high autocorrelation for each of the ink colors is selected in a sensor pixel unit of a densitometer, and a region obtained by removing an edge portion of the pertaining ink color having a width of a predetermined number of pixels from the selected region is set as a noticed pixel for each of the ink colors. Then, a target color mixture halftone density is set for each of the ink supplying unit widths, and an actual color mixture halftone density for each of the ink supplying unit widths of an actually printed sheet is measured using the densitometer. Further, the color mixture halftone density is converted into a halftone dot area ratio and further into a monochromatic halftone density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD
    Inventors: Ikuo Ozaki, Syuuichi Takemoto, Norifumi Tasaka
  • Publication number: 20060050320
    Abstract: A picture color tone controlling method and apparatus for a printing press is disclosed which can readily and rapidly eliminate a positional displacement between a plate making image and an actual machine image and can appropriately perform color tone control in which an IRGB densitometer is used. A plate making picture position obtained from plate making data is moved so that a positional displacement between the plate making picture position and an actual picture position obtained from a result of actual printing. A target color mixture halftone density for each ink supplying unit width when a printing picture is divided with an ink supplying unit width of an ink supplying apparatus is set. An IRGB densitometer is used to measure the actual color mixture halftone density for each ink supplying unit width of an actually printed sheet obtained by printing. The color mixture halftone densities are individually converted into halftone dot area ratios and further into monochromatic halftone densities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD
    Inventors: Ikuo Ozaki, Syuuichi Takemoto, Norifumi Tasaka
  • Publication number: 20030107772
    Abstract: Disclosed are a printing color management system and a printing color management method, wherein a plurality of machine plates, which is associated with a plurality of monochromatic images wherein a color image is color-separated, is created in accordance with image data, and an color image is created in such a manner that the plurality of machine plates is used to sequentially print a plurality of monochromatic images on an overlapping basis. The printing color management system and the printing color management method are capable of creating a printed image closely similar in color to a target printed matter, while an image quality of the printed image is guaranteed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Applicants: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Shimazaki, Tadashi Miyakawa, Kiyomi Tamagawa, Syuuichi Takemoto, Hideaki Nagai
  • Patent number: 6198993
    Abstract: An adjacent vehicle approach prohibition region is set before and after a to-be-converged moving target (MT) on a main line with reference to the to-be-converged MT. The to-be-converged MT corresponds to a converging MT assigned to a converging vehicle which is about to enter and converge onto the main line from a branch line. When a preceding non-MT-controlled vehicle or a following non-MT-controlled vehicle, which is a to-be-converged vehicle running on the main line onto which the converging vehicle is to converge, and which preceding or following vehicle is not subjected to a control by a MT method, has entered the adjacent vehicle approach prohibition region, the to-be-converged MT is accelerated/decelerated, whereby the entering to-be-converged vehicle is excluded from the adjacent vehicle approach prohibition region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Higashi, Shinichi Matsumoto, Hiroshi Saeki, Syuuichi Takemoto