Patents by Inventor Taro Kikuchi

Taro Kikuchi 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: 11966692
    Abstract: A document processing apparatus includes a processor configured to receive purpose information indicating a purpose of creating a document, extract item definition information corresponding to the purpose indicated by the received purpose information from item definition information stored in a memory for the item definition information in which one or more items to be posted in the document are defined in correspondence with the purpose of creating the document, extract an item value corresponding to each item defined in the extracted item definition information from item information stored in a memory for the item information including the item value of each item, and assign the extracted item value in each predetermined area of the document to create the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Junichi Matsunoshita, Yasunari Kishimoto, Masakazu Fukunaga, Takashi Kikuchi, Taro Yokose
  • Publication number: 20240112995
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first die pad with a first obverse surface facing in z direction, a second die pad spaced from the first die pad and including a second obverse surface facing in z direction, a first semiconductor element on the first obverse surface, a second semiconductor element on the second obverse surface, an insulating element on the first or second obverse surface and located between the first and second semiconductor elements in x direction to relay signals between the first and second semiconductor elements while electrically insulating these semiconductor elements, and a wire bonded to the first semiconductor element and the first obverse surface. The first die pad includes a first bond portion bonded to the wire, and a first opening located between the first bond portion and the first semiconductor element in y direction and including an opening end in the first obverse surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Moe YAMAGUCHI, Hiroaki MATSUBARA, Yoshizo OSUMI, Tomohira KIKUCHI, Ryohei UMENO, Taro NISHIOKA
  • Patent number: 11924554
    Abstract: An imaging system (100) includes an imaging unit (140) configured to capture an image of a target object while the imaging unit (140) being mounted on a movable apparatus (500); and an exposure condition determination unit (161) configured to determine any one of a fixed exposure condition and an automatic exposure (AE) condition, as an exposure condition, based on a distance detected between the movable apparatus (500) and the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Yamada, Yuji Yamanaka, Taro Kikuchi, Keito Sawada, Shusaku Takasu
  • Publication number: 20220201206
    Abstract: An imaging system (100) includes an imaging unit (140) configured to capture an image of a target object while the imaging unit (140) being mounted on a movable apparatus (500); and an exposure condition determination unit (161) configured to determine any one of a fixed exposure condition and an automatic exposure (AE) condition, as an exposure condition, based on a distance detected between the movable apparatus (500) and the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Yuji YAMANAKA, Taro KIKUCHI, Keito SAWADA, Shusaku TAKASU
  • Patent number: 10091422
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an image input unit, a shake-amount measuring unit, a shake correcting unit, a dividing unit, a feature-value calculating unit, and an enhancement processing unit. The image input unit receives an input of an image in chronological order. The shake-amount measuring unit measures an amount of shake of an image. The shake correcting unit corrects shake of the image in accordance with the amount of shake measured. The dividing unit divides the image corrected into multiple areas. The feature-value calculating unit calculates a histogram indicating a feature value of an image, for each of the divided areas. The enhancement processing unit determines processing details of enhancement processing to change a form of the histogram for each of the areas in accordance with the measured amount of shake of the image, and conducts enhancement processing on the area based on the histogram calculated for each area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Taro Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9710715
    Abstract: An image processing system, an image processing device, and image processing method are provided. Each of the image processing system, the image processing device, and the image processing method includes dividing an image into a plurality of areas according to a predetermined division condition, measuring an optical transmittance of each of the plurality of divided areas or data correlating with the optical transmittance as transmittance data, calculating the optical transmittance or the data correlating with the optical transmittance from the image as the transmittance data, determining a parameter for adjusting a contrast for each of the plurality of areas according to the transmittance data obtained by the measuring or the calculating, and adjusting a contrast of each one of the plurality of areas using the parameter determined by the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Taro Kikuchi, Takashi Uozumi
  • Patent number: 9628768
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus useable for correcting an image includes an input unit to receive an input of an image; an area dividing unit to divide the image, input to the input unit, into a plurality of areas having different lighting conditions; a computing unit to compute a correction coefficient for each of the divided areas divided by the area dividing unit; a movement detector to detect a movement between the first image and the second image supplied from the input unit along the time line; a boundary determination unit to determine a boundary between the areas to which correction coefficients of each of the areas are blended based on the movement detected by the movement detector; and a setting unit to set image correction coefficient data for the image input to the input unit based on the boundary between the areas determined by the boundary determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Taro Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9615046
    Abstract: An image conversion apparatus extracts from among pixel rows parallel to an object pixel row, a first pixel row overlapping an aperture shape; and further extracts a second pixel row having the number of pixels successively overlapping the aperture shape equal to or greater than that of the first pixel row. The image conversion apparatus calculates a value of a second pixel in the case of converting an original image, by referring to a storage unit that stores a value of a first pixel in the case of converting the original image. For example, the image conversion apparatus defines an average of the value of the first pixel in the case of converting the original image, a value of a diffusion source pixel (IN[5][2]), and a diffusion source pixel (IN[5][3]) as the value of the second pixel in the case of converting the original image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yosuke Senta, Taro Kikuchi, Hideyuki Koike
  • Publication number: 20170041543
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an image input unit, a shake-amount measuring unit, a shake correcting unit, a dividing unit, a feature-value calculating unit, and an enhancement processing unit. The image input unit receives an input of an image in chronological order. The shake-amount measuring unit measures an amount of shake of an image. The shake correcting unit corrects shake of the image in accordance with the amount of shake measured. The dividing unit divides the image corrected into multiple areas. The feature-value calculating unit calculates a histogram indicating a feature value of an image, for each of the divided areas. The enhancement processing unit determines processing details of enhancement processing to change a form of the histogram for each of the areas in accordance with the measured amount of shake of the image, and conducts enhancement processing on the area based on the histogram calculated for each area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventor: Taro KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160189354
    Abstract: An image processing system, an image processing device, and image processing method are provided. Each of the image processing system, the image processing device, and the image processing method includes dividing an image into a plurality of areas according to a predetermined division condition, measuring an optical transmittance of each of the plurality of divided areas or data correlating with the optical transmittance as transmittance data, calculating the optical transmittance or the data correlating with the optical transmittance from the image as the transmittance data, determining a parameter for adjusting a contrast for each of the plurality of areas according to the transmittance data obtained by the measuring or the calculating, and adjusting a contrast of each one of the plurality of areas using the parameter determined by the determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taro KIKUCHI, Takashi UOZUMI
  • Patent number: 9372567
    Abstract: A display device includes: an input controller configured to detect a first contact coordinate input by a drag operation on a touch panel on a surface of a display and record the first contact coordinate in a memory in association with an acquisition time of the first contact coordinate; and a display controller configured to calculate a second contact coordinate at a time preceding a current time by a given time based on the first contact coordinate and the acquisition time corresponding to the first contact coordinate and control a display operation on the display with defining the second contact coordinate as a display coordinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Taro Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9257094
    Abstract: A projection display device according to the invention includes a separating unit that assigns X separation information for identifying a type of an image to each pixel by using a characteristic amount of the input image, a luminance detecting unit that detects a luminance of a screen, a first determining unit that determines a first target region indicating a region on which halftone processing of converting the number of gradations is performed on the input image by using the X separation information, and a halftone processing unit that executes the halftone processing that varies depending on the luminance on the first target region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Inukai, Shinichi Wakahara, Naofumi Yoshimizu, Akira Murakata, Taira Matsuoka, Taro Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9183605
    Abstract: An image projecting apparatus includes an image projecting unit configured to project received original image data on an image projection surface; an area identifying unit configured to identify an obstruction area in which different content is displayed as compared to a normal projection surface to be projected based on the original image data; and a layout modifying unit configured to modify a layout of an object included in the original image data that is projected, on the basis of the object and the obstruction area on the image projection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Taira Matsuoka, Yoshihiro Inukai, Taro Kikuchi, Akira Murakata, Naofumi Yoshimizu
  • Publication number: 20150244915
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus useable for correcting an image includes an input unit to receive an input of an image; an area dividing unit to divide the image, input to the input unit, into a plurality of areas having different lighting conditions; a computing unit to compute a correction coefficient for each of the divided areas divided by the area dividing unit; a movement detector to detect a movement between the first image and the second image supplied from the input unit along the time line; a boundary determination unit to determine a boundary between the areas to which correction coefficients of each of the areas are blended based on the movement detected by the movement detector; and a setting unit to set image correction coefficient data for the image input to the input unit based on the boundary between the areas determined by the boundary determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventor: Taro KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150156436
    Abstract: An image conversion apparatus extracts from among pixel rows parallel to an object pixel row, a first pixel row overlapping an aperture shape; and further extracts a second pixel row having the number of pixels successively overlapping the aperture shape equal to or greater than that of the first pixel row. The image conversion apparatus calculates a value of a second pixel in the case of converting an original image, by referring to a storage unit that stores a value of a first pixel in the case of converting the original image. For example, the image conversion apparatus defines an average of the value of the first pixel in the case of converting the original image, a value of a diffusion source pixel (IN[5][2]), and a diffusion source pixel (IN[5][3]) as the value of the second pixel in the case of converting the original image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yosuke SENTA, Taro KIKUCHI, Hideyuki KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20140085240
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device includes a display unit that includes a display area in which an image indicating an operation unit is displayed, a detecting unit that detects a touch operation performed on the display unit, and a control unit that changes the image indicating the operation unit displayed on the display unit according to a trajectory of the touch operation detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Taro KIKUCHI, Daiki FUKUSHIMA, Junya YAMAGUCHI, Nao HORIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8621378
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device, method, and program that displays, on a display unit, an image indicating an operation unit corresponding to a physical operation unit and used to navigate in place of the physical operation unit, detects a touch operation performed on the display unit, and changes the image indicating the operation unit according to a trajectory of the touch operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Taro Kikuchi, Daiki Fukushima, Junya Yamaguchi, Nao Horiguchi
  • Publication number: 20130278515
    Abstract: A display device includes: an input controller configured to detect a first contact coordinate input by a drag operation on a touch panel on a surface of a display and record the first contact coordinate in a memory in association with an acquisition time of the first contact coordinate; and a display controller configured to calculate a second contact coordinate at a time preceding a current time by a given time based on the first contact coordinate and the acquisition time corresponding to the first contact coordinate and control a display operation on the display with defining the second contact coordinate as a display coordinate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Taro KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20130169607
    Abstract: A projection display device according to the invention includes a separating unit that assigns X separation information for identifying a type of an image to each pixel by using a characteristic amount of the input image, a luminance detecting unit that detects a luminance of a screen, a first determining unit that determines a first target region indicating a region on which halftone processing of converting the number of gradations is performed on the input image by using the X separation information, and a halftone processing unit that executes the halftone processing that varies depending on the luminance on the first target region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Yoshihiro INUKAI, Shinichi WAKAHARA, Naofumi YOSHIMIZU, Akira MURAKATA, Taira MATSUOKA, Taro KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20130162688
    Abstract: An image projecting apparatus includes an image projecting unit configured to project received original image data on an image projection surface; an area identifying unit configured to identify an obstruction area in which different content is displayed as compared to a normal projection surface to be projected based on the original image data; and a layout modifying unit configured to modify a layout of an object included in the original image data that is projected, on the basis of the object and the obstruction area on the image projection surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Taira MATSUOKA, Yoshihiro INUKAI, Taro KIKUCHI, Akira MURAKATA, Naofumi YOSHIMIZU