Patents by Inventor Takashi Ajioka

Takashi Ajioka 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: 20220390919
    Abstract: A production facility monitoring system includes: an information acquirer that acquires information on productivity of one or more production facilities; an information manager that extracts, based on one or more results included in a statistical result of the acquired information, a proposal item satisfying a condition of the statistical result from at least one proposal-item reference table containing proposal items; and a display that displays the extracted proposal item. The production facility monitoring system monitors the productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Ajioka
  • Publication number: 20200192610
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program causing a computer to perform additional setting of a new input item on an input format based on information regarding a supplemented portion supplemented on the input format in which an entry is made in an input field of a predetermined input item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Ajioka
  • Patent number: 10649699
    Abstract: A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable setting control program operating on an apparatus that corrects a print job, causes the apparatus to perform: by reading previously-registered setting information of the print job, displaying a setting value of each of items in a correctable manner; saving, in a storage, when a setting value of any one of the items is corrected, an uncorrected setting value of the item; and by classifying the items of the print job into a first item a setting value of which has not been corrected and a second item a setting value of which has been corrected, registering, in a database in a distinguishable manner, a set of the first item and the setting value of the first item and a set of the second item and an uncorrected setting value of the second item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Ajioka
  • Patent number: 10560586
    Abstract: Provided are a controller, a color chart and a non-transitory recording medium. The color chart includes a first patch that is a halftone patch of first color, a second patch that is the halftone patch of the first color underlaid with a solid base of second color, and comparative patches prepared by increasing and decreasing the tone of the first color of the first patch and second patch, where the printed surface of the color chart is finished with transparent material. The controller calculates tone values or dot gains of the first patch and second patch based on the measured color values of the patches in the color chart, and determines the current condition of print and the current condition of a finished surface by using a comparison result of the tone values or dot gains of the first patch and second patch with respective reference values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Ajioka
  • Patent number: 10540121
    Abstract: Provided are a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an input assistance program and an input assisting method. A hardware processor of an apparatus for configuring setup options for a print job, receives an operator's input of a value for one of setup options for a print job, and searches for a candidate value for an unspecified setup option, for which no value is specified by an operator's input, among the setup options for the print job, by using a rule chosen from a rule collection prepared in advance, on the basis of the value input for the one of the setup options and a value or values each already specified for another of the setup options by an operator's input or by default. In response to finding a candidate value for the unspecified setup option, the hardware processor causes a display of the apparatus to display the candidate value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Ajioka
  • Publication number: 20190243586
    Abstract: Provided are a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an input assistance program and an input assisting method. A hardware processor of an apparatus for configuring setup options for a print job, receives an operator's input of a value for one of setup options for a print job, and searches for a candidate value for an unspecified setup option, for which no value is specified by an operator's input, among the setup options for the print job, by using a rule chosen from a rule collection prepared in advance, on the basis of the value input for the one of the setup options and a value or values each already specified for another of the setup options by an operator's input or by default. In response to finding a candidate value for the unspecified setup option, the hardware processor causes a display of the apparatus to display the candidate value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi AJIOKA
  • Publication number: 20190243585
    Abstract: A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable setting control program operating on an apparatus that corrects a print job, causes the apparatus to perform: by reading previously-registered setting information of the print job, displaying a setting value of each of items in a correctable manner; saving, in a storage, when a setting value of any one of the items is corrected, an uncorrected setting value of the item; and by classifying the items of the print job into a first item a setting value of which has not been corrected and a second item a setting value of which has been corrected, registering, in a database in a distinguishable manner, a set of the first item and the setting value of the first item and a set of the second item and an uncorrected setting value of the second item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi AJIOKA
  • Publication number: 20180255187
    Abstract: Provided are a controller, a color chart and a non-transitory recording medium. The color chart includes a first patch that is a halftone patch of first color, a second patch that is the halftone patch of the first color underlaid with a solid base of second color, and comparative patches prepared by increasing and decreasing the tone of the first color of the first patch and second patch, where the printed surface of the color chart is finished with transparent material. The controller calculates tone values or dot gains of the first patch and second patch based on the measured color values of the patches in the color chart, and determines the current condition of print and the current condition of a finished surface by using a comparison result of the tone values or dot gains of the first patch and second patch with respective reference values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Ajioka