Patents by Inventor Takeshi Suzuki

Takeshi Suzuki 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).

  • Image processing apparatus and control method thereof
    Patent number: 9305327
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and its control method receives a drawing command including a moving image drawing command and a graphics drawing command and performs drawing processing. A drawing command is received, and the moving image drawing command is separated from the graphics drawing command. A graphics drawing unit obtains the result of graphics drawing in accordance with the graphics drawing command. A moving image drawing unit generates moving image data processed in accordance with the moving image drawing command. A composition unit composes the result of graphics drawing by the graphics drawing unit with the moving image data generated by the moving image drawing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeru Sakamoto, Satoru Mamiya, Jun Fujisawa, Shuichi Okamura, Shinya Takeichi, Atsushi Date, Takeshi Suzuki, Akihiro Takamura, Waki Midorikawa, Toru Nomakuchi
  • Pressure applying rotatable member, having a porous elastic layer with greater thermal conductivities in the axial and circumferential directions than in the thickness direction, and image heating apparatus having the same
    Patent number: 9268273
    Abstract: A pressing rotatable member for use with an image heating apparatus including a base layer; and a porous elastic layer provided on the base layer, wherein the elastic layer has a thermal conductivity in an axial direction thereof and a thermal conductivity in a circumferential direction thereof which are not less than 6-times and not more than 900-times a thermal conductivity in a thickness direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Miyahara, Shigeaki Takada, Toshinori Nakayama, Daigo Matsuura, Naoki Akiyama, Shuichi Tamura, Yutaka Arai, Jun Miura, Takeshi Suzuki, Katsuhisa Matsunaka
  • INFORMATION COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20160036914
    Abstract: The invention provides an information communication apparatus that discloses, on a network channel, an electronic file in a public region provided in a connected storage apparatus, causes the network channel to operate when the public region is accessible or stops the network channel when the public region is inaccessible and stops the network channel when the storage apparatus is connected for the first time irrespective of whether or not the public region is accessible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventor: Takeshi SUZUKI
  • APPARATUS, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20160028795
    Abstract: In response to a request from an external device, information related to a server that provides a service related to an apparatus is set. The set information related to the server is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Katano, Takeshi Suzuki
  • Apparatus, method and storage medium for storing program for printing an image according to an appropriate print setting
    Patent number: 9245213
    Abstract: On the basis of information indicating a recommended print setting that corresponds to a content, a display device is controlled to display, in a distinguishable manner, the recommended print setting that corresponds to a content to be printed and a print setting different from the recommended print setting. Also, according to the print setting designated by the user, an image based on the content is printed by a printing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Suzuki
  • Information communication apparatus
    Patent number: 9247433
    Abstract: An information communication apparatus includes: a communication portion; a storage apparatus connection portion that performs input and output operations with respect to a storage apparatus; a storage region management portion configured to provide, in the storage apparatus, a public region that makes an electronic file publicly accessible through the communication portion, and a private region that does not make an electronic file publicly accessible; and a file management portion that is capable of moving an electronic file that is stored in the storage apparatus, and is configured to move a predetermined electronic file to the private region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Suzuki
  • ELASTIC ROLLER AND FIXING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160018771
    Abstract: An elastic layer includes a needle-shaped filler and a void and has a porosity of 20 vol % or more and 60 vol % or less. The elastic layer contains a first area and a second area. The first area extends from a surface of the elastic layer opposite to a surface facing the mandrel toward the mandrel and has a thickness of 30% of the thickness of the elastic layer. The second area is a central area in a thickness direction of the elastic layer and has a thickness of 40% of the thickness of the elastic layer. The needle-shaped filler in the second area has an orientation degree of 50% or lower. The needle-shaped filler in the first area has an orientation degree higher than that of the needle-shaped filler in the second area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Yutaka Arai, Takeshi Suzuki, Jun Miura, Shigeaki Takada, Toshinori Nakayama, Naoki Akiyama, Daigo Matsuura, Yasuhiro Miyahara, Akeshi Asaka, Shuichi Tamura, Katsuhisa Matsunaka, Shinsuke Takahashi, Hiroto Sugimoto
  • FIXING MEMBER
    Publication number: 20160018766
    Abstract: A fixing member used for fixing a toner image on a recording material includes: a base layer; and a porous elastic layer provided on the base layer and containing a needle-like filler. The elastic layer has a thermal conductivity with respect to a longitudinal direction thereof in a first region where the elastic layer is contactable to the recording material on the fixing member, and the thermal conductivity is 6 times to 900 times a thermal conductivity with respect to a thickness direction in the first region. The elastic layer has a thermal conductivity with respect to the thickness direction thereof in a second region outside the first region with respect to the longitudinal direction, and the thermal conductivity with respect to the thickness direction in the second region is larger than the thermal conductivity with respect to the thickness direction in the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Naoki Akiyama, Shigeaki Takada, Daigo Matsuura, Yasuhiro Miyahara, Akeshi Asaka, Shuichi Tamura, Toshinori Nakayama, Yutaka Arai, Jun Miura, Takeshi Suzuki, Katsuhisa Matsunaka, Shinsuke Takahashi, Hiroto Sugimoto
  • Acquiring data for processing using location information
    Patent number: 9239885
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates first location information about a location of at least a part of data as a target of predetermined processing and second location information about a location of location information corresponding to a part different from the part, and transmits the generated first and second location information to a processing apparatus which executes the predetermined processing for the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Suzuki
  • PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20160004851
    Abstract: Provided is a processing apparatus that authenticates a requestor in response to a request for performing predetermined processing. The processing apparatus executes the predetermined processing upon the authentication succeeding. Whether or not authentication is performed is set individually for each of the processing apparatus and an external apparatus of the processing apparatus that serve as the requestor. The authentication is performed in the case where authentication is set to be performed on the requestor that made the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventor: Takeshi Suzuki
  • Method for manufacturing photoelectric converter
    Patent number: 9224903
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a photoelectric converter, comprising: forming a first buffer layer comprising a metal sulfide on a light-absorbing layer comprising a Group I-III-VI compound or a Group I-II-IV-VI compound; and contacting a surface of the first buffer layer with a first solution comprising an alkali metal compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Suzuki, Riichi Sasamori, Junji Aranami, Hirofumi Senta
  • FIXING MEMBER MANUFACTURING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20150367544
    Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing a fixing member includes: a metal mold capable of holding a base material of the fixing member in an inside thereof; and an injecting member including a group of openings configured to inject a liquid rubber containing a needle-like filler into the metal mold in which the base material is held. The injecting member is configured so that a ratio of a total perimeter of the group of openings to a sum of a perimeter of an inner surface of the metal mold and an outer surface of the base material is 1.3 or more and 3.3 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Akeshi Asaka, Shuichi Tamura, Hiroto Sugimoto, Shinsuke Takahashi, Shigeaki Takada, Takeshi Suzuki, Jun Miura, Yutaka Arai
  • METHOD AND FACILITY FOR MANUFACTURING SEAMLESS STEEL PIPE WITH EXCELLENT TOUGHNESS
    Publication number: 20150368734
    Abstract: It is difficult in the related art to realize not only a decrease in material variability due to non-uniform microstructure distribution in the wall thickness direction of a pipe body but also the maintenance of satisfactory productivity of the whole heat treatment line at the same time. A method includes determining in advance whether or not the pipe body is made of a steel grade having an Ms point lower than 200° C.; leaving the pipe body of a steel grade having an Ms point lower than 200° C. additionally at room temperature (it is preferable to be transported to a holding bed 6 and left) until the temperature difference between the portion having the highest temperature and the portion having the lowest temperature in a cross section in a direction at a right angle to the pipe axis becomes less than 2.0° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Takeshi Suzuki, Kenichiro Eguchi, Yasuhide Ishiguro
  • LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150362652
    Abstract: A backlight device includes an LED; a light guide plate that has a light-exiting surface provided at one plate surface, an opposite surface provided at a plate surface on the opposite side to the light-exiting surface, and a light-receiving side face provided at one side face, that is arranged such that the light-receiving side face faces the LED and that guides light from the LED; a chassis having a plate surface arranged so as to face the opposite surface and housing at least the LED and the light guide plate; and an optical sheet that is arranged so as to face the light-exiting surface, that provides light that has exited the light guide plate with an optical function and that has a bent portion that extends further toward the outside than an edge of the light-exiting surface and is bent toward the opposite surface side and as a result covers at least part of a side face of the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiji HAYASHI, Eiji NITTOU, Toshikazu MATSUKAWA, Nobuyuki NAKAMURA, Yoshitsugu KAWAHIGASHI, Takeshi SUZUKI
  • FIXING MEMBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE MEMBER, FIXING DEVICE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20150355581
    Abstract: Provided is a fixing member having a silicone rubber elastic layer blended with a carbon nanotube, the fixing member suppressing peeling at an interface in association with insufficient adhesion between a base member and the silicone rubber elastic layer at the time of the use of the fixing member, and hence securing adhesion durability. The fixing member includes a base member, an elastic layer, and a surface layer, in which: the elastic layer contains a silicone rubber and a carbon nanotube; a ratio E200/E50 of an elastic modulus E200 of the elastic layer at 200° C. to an elastic modulus E50 of the elastic layer at 50° C. is 0.5 or more and less than 1.0; an adhesive strength between the elastic layer and the base member is 3.0 N/cm or more and 20.0 N/cm or less; and the elastic layer undergoes a cohesive failure at the time of a peel test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Matsunaka, Kazuo Kishino, Katsuya Abe, Takeshi Suzuki, Naoki Akiyama, Yasuhiro Miyahara, Hiroto Sugimoto
  • IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT
    Publication number: 20150334255
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store image processing cases each including a first input image, first attribute information indicating an attribute of the first input image, and processing procedure information; a retrieval processor configured to retrieve, from the storage unit, the image processing cases each including the first input image and the first attribute information which are respectively similar to a second input image and second attribute information indicating an attribute of the second input image; and an image processor configured to perform, on the second input image, image processing in accordance with the processing procedure information included in the image processing case selected by an operator among the retrieved image processing cases, and generate an output image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Takeshi SUZUKI, Matthias REIF, Christian SCHULZE, Heiko MAUS, Ludger VAN ELST
  • Tactile sense presentation device and tactile sense presentation method
    Patent number: 9176587
    Abstract: A tactile sense presentation device including: a tactile-sense presentation unit having a first working electrode group of a plurality of first working electrodes arranged along a first direction; and a control unit operable to apply a first tactile sense signal having a first waveform to each of the first working electrodes. The control unit applies the first tactile sense signal, in which a phase difference corresponding to a distance between adjacent first working electrodes is applied to the first waveform, to each of the plurality of first working electrodes so as to cause the first waveform to travel along the first direction at a predetermined speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Suzuki, Tetsuyoshi Ogura, Koichi Hirano, Daisuke Wakuda
  • Touch panel device with tactile sense presenting function
    Patent number: 9176586
    Abstract: A touch panel device with the tactile sense presenting function according to this embodiment includes the plurality of electrodes 1 arranged on the single plane, and the controller 20. The controller 20 performs a first operation and a second operation in a time division manner. The first operation includes applying the first voltage which changes temporally, to some of the electrodes 1, detecting voltages generated on at least some of the remaining electrodes 1 in this state, and detecting the position of the dielectric which is in proximity to the touch panel device, on the basis of the detected voltages. The second operation includes applying the second voltage which changes temporally, to some of the electrodes 1, and generating electric field with the some working electrodes 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuyoshi Ogura, Koichi Hirano, Takeshi Suzuki, Daisuke Wakuda
  • Roller, heating member, and image heating apparatus equipped with roller and heating member
    Patent number: 9176442
    Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes an endless belt configured to heat an image on a sheet at a nip potion, a heat generation device configured to cause the belt to generate heat, a nip forming member configured to form the nip portion between the nip forming member and the belt, and a pressing roller configured to press an inner surface of the belt toward the nip forming member, the pressing roller including an elastic porous layer containing a plurality of filler particles, wherein a thermal conductivity of the elastic porous layer in an axial direction of the pressing roller is in a range of 6 times to 900 times a thermal conductivity of the elastic porous layer in a radial direction of the pressing roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshinori Nakayama, Hiroto Sugimoto, Masayuki Tamaki, Koichi Kakubari, Katsuhisa Matsunaka, Yutaka Arai, Jun Miura, Takeshi Suzuki, Naoki Akiyama, Shigeaki Takada, Yasuhiro Miyahara
  • Surface-treated steel sheet, method for manufacturing the same, and resin-covered steel sheet using the same
    Patent number: 9169577
    Abstract: Provided are a Cr-free surface-treated steel sheet that has excellent humid resin adhesion and corrosion resistance and that exhibits no streak-like surface defects, a method for manufacturing such a surface-treated steel sheet, and a resin-covered steel sheet using such a surface-treated steel sheet. A surface-treated steel sheet includes a steel sheet; a corrosion-resistant coating, on at least one side thereof, that is composed of at least one layer selected from a Ni layer, a Sn layer, an Fe—Ni alloy layer, an Fe—Sn alloy layer, and an Fe—Ni—Sn alloy layer; and an adherent coating, on the corrosion-resistant coating, that contains Zr and at least one species selected from P derived from a phosphoric acid and C derived from a phenolic resin in a total mass ratio to Zr of 0.01 to 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yuka Miyamoto, Takeshi Suzuki, Norihiko Nakamura, Yoichi Tobiyama