Patents by Inventor Toru Misaizu

Toru Misaizu 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: 11800019
    Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire printing data that is data as a base of an image to be printed, acquire read data that is data obtained by reading the image printed on a paper sheet, perform correction of a blur caused by floating of the paper sheet occurring in the reading of the image, on the read data, and inspect the image by comparing the printing data with the read data after the correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Toru Misaizu
  • Patent number: 11665289
    Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire printing data that is data as a base of an image to be printed, acquire read data that is data obtained by reading the image printed on a paper sheet, specify whether or not the printing data or the read data is an image corresponding to any of an image having a periodic structural feature or an image not having a structural feature, in a case where the printing data or the read data corresponds to the image having the periodic structural feature or the image not having the structural feature, perform registration using a position correction amount that is a correction amount for registering an image based on the printing data and an image based on the read data and is calculated for an already printed image, and inspect the image by comparing the printing data with the read data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Toru Misaizu
  • Publication number: 20230119800
    Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire printing data that is data as a base of an image to be printed, acquire read data that is data obtained by reading the image printed on a paper sheet, perform correction of a blur caused by floating of the paper sheet occurring in the reading of the image, on the read data, and inspect the image by comparing the printing data with the read data after the correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Toru MISAIZU
  • Publication number: 20230124195
    Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire printing data that is data as a base of an image to be printed, acquire read data that is data obtained by reading the image printed on a paper sheet, specify whether or not the printing data or the read data is an image corresponding to any of an image having a periodic structural feature or an image not having a structural feature, in a case where the printing data or the read data corresponds to the image having the periodic structural feature or the image not having the structural feature, perform registration using a position correction amount that is a correction amount for registering an image based on the printing data and an image based on the read data and is calculated for an already printed image, and inspect the image by comparing the printing data with the read data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Toru MISAIZU
  • Patent number: 11080921
    Abstract: A three-dimensional object data generation apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains three-dimensional object data representing a three-dimensional object with plural voxels, for each of which a physical property value is set, a setting unit that sets a three-dimensional threshold matrix in which thresholds are arranged in a three-dimensional space in accordance with a predetermined basic shape, and a calculation unit that calculates whether to form each of the plural voxels on a basis of the physical property value of the voxel and the three-dimensional threshold matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Toru Misaizu, Naoki Hiji
  • Publication number: 20200074719
    Abstract: A three-dimensional object data generation apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains three-dimensional object data representing a three-dimensional object with plural voxels, for each of which a physical property value is set, a setting unit that sets a three-dimensional threshold matrix in which thresholds are arranged in a three-dimensional space in accordance with a predetermined basic shape, and a calculation unit that calculates whether to form each of the plural voxels on a basis of the physical property value of the voxel and the three-dimensional threshold matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru MISAIZU, Naoki HIJI
  • Patent number: 10245870
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a sheet and an image forming section that forms an image region formed of a toner layer that enables information written on the sheet, which has been transported by the transport unit, by using a whiteboard marker to be erased by using a whiteboard eraser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Misaizu, Mizuki Sugino, Daisuke Tanaka, Masaru Okutsu
  • Publication number: 20180056694
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a sheet and an image forming section that forms an image region formed of a toner layer that enables information written on the sheet, which has been transported by the transport unit, by using a whiteboard marker to be erased by using a whiteboard eraser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru MISAIZU, Mizuki SUGINO, Daisuke TANAKA, Masaru OKUTSU
  • Patent number: 9756220
    Abstract: An image data generating apparatus includes an extracting unit and a generating unit. The extracting unit extracts one or more pixels corresponding to a metallic-color region expressed by a metallic color, by using lightness and saturation of a read image and lightness and saturation of a captured image, the read image being obtained by reading a document having the metallic-color region, the captured image being obtained by capturing an image of the document. The generating unit generates image data in which the one or more pixels corresponding to the metallic-color region and extracted by the extracting unit are colored in the metallic color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Takahira, Toru Misaizu
  • Publication number: 20170085753
    Abstract: An image data generating apparatus includes an extracting unit and a generating unit. The extracting unit extracts one or more pixels corresponding to a metallic-color region expressed by a metallic color, by using lightness and saturation of a read image and lightness and saturation of a captured image, the read image being obtained by reading a document having the metallic-color region, the captured image being obtained by capturing an image of the document. The generating unit generates image data in which the one or more pixels corresponding to the metallic-color region and extracted by the extracting unit are colored in the metallic color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi TAKAHIRA, Toru MISAIZU
  • Patent number: 9302470
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording material by ejecting ink; and an image processing unit that, in a case where information of a bar code image is included in image information for forming an image by the image forming unit, carries out a process of making a drop size of the ink used for pixels constituting an edge portion in the bar code image smaller than a drop size of the ink used for pixels constituting a portion other than the edge portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Misaizu, Masayuki Kaneda, Kenji Hara, Hidetoshi Kawashima, Kota Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20160082721
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording material by ejecting ink; and an image processing unit that, in a case where information of a bar code image is included in image information for forming an image by the image forming unit, carries out a process of making a drop size of the ink used for pixels constituting an edge portion in the bar code image smaller than a drop size of the ink used for pixels constituting a portion other than the edge portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Toru MISAIZU, Masayuki KANEDA, Kenji HARA, Hidetoshi KAWASHIMA, Kota MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20160086065
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section and an image processing section. The image forming section forms an image on a recording medium. When image information for forming the image with the image forming section includes information of a barcode image and one of a resolution of the image forming section and a resolution of the image information is not an integer multiple of the other, the image processing section regards a resolution of a part of the image information used for the barcode image as a different resolution so that one of the resolution of the part of the image information used for the barcode image and the resolution of the image forming section is an integer multiple of the other to perform rasterization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Hidetoshi KAWASHIMA, Masayuki KANEDA, Toru MISAIZU, Kenji HARA
  • Patent number: 8902470
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a multi-level unit that applies a multi-level process on binary halftone dot image data indicating a binary halftone dot image, to form multi-level image data; an acquiring unit that acquires a number of screen lines of the binary halftone dot image data; a tone correcting unit that determines a tone correction amount corresponding to the number of screen lines of the binary halftone dot image data acquired by the acquiring unit, and that applies tone correction on the multi-level image data produced by the multi-level unit, by using the determined tone correction amount; and a re-binarizing unit that binarizes the multi-level image data in which the tone is corrected by the tone correcting unit, without changing a halftone dot shape of the binary halftone dot image data, to produce re-binarized halftone dot image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Misaizu, Kenji Hara, Shigeru Arai, Kota Matsuo
  • Patent number: 8724174
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an edge-portion detector, an edge-width detector, and a tone correction unit. The edge-portion detector detects a pixel of an edge portion by determining whether or not each of pixels constituting image data which has been input is a pixel which is included in the edge portion. The edge-width detector detects, for the pixel of the edge portion detected by the edge-portion detector, an edge width which is a width of the edge portion. When the edge width detected by the edge-width detector is smaller than a value which is set in advance, the tone correction unit performs tone correction differently in accordance with the detected edge width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Misaizu, Kenji Hara, Shigeru Arai, Koichi Matsubara, Kouta Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20140092440
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a multi-level unit that applies a multi-level process on binary halftone dot image data indicating a binary halftone dot image, to form multi-level image data; an acquiring unit that acquires a number of screen lines of the binary halftone dot image data; a tone correcting unit that determines a tone correction amount corresponding to the number of screen lines of the binary halftone dot image data acquired by the acquiring unit, and that applies tone correction on the multi-level image data produced by the multi-level unit, by using the determined tone correction amount; and a re-binarizing unit that binarizes the multi-level image data in which the tone is corrected by the tone correcting unit, without changing a halftone dot shape of the binary halftone dot image data, to produce re-binarized halftone dot image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru MISAIZU, Kenji HARA, Shigeru ARAI, Kota MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20140055819
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes memory that stores first pixel values in association with second pixel values for respective droplets which have been classified into multiple types according to size, one or more converters that convert pixel values in a received image, which correspond to the first pixel values, into second pixel values to generate an image for each of the respective droplet types, on the basis of the correspondences between the first pixel values and the second pixel values stored in the memory, a screening unit that screens the images for the respective droplet types converted by the one or more converters, and a compositing unit that composites the images for the respective droplet types screened by the screening unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota MATSUO, Toru MISAIZU, Kenji HARA, Shigeru ARAI
  • Patent number: 8638468
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a reception unit that receives an image in gray-level representation with respect to a pixel; a determination unit that determines a deviation direction of a pixel value of the pixel in the image received by the reception unit; and a processing unit that performs processing on the image received by the reception unit based on the deviation direction determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Arai, Kenji Hara, Toru Misaizu, Kouta Matsuo, Haruka Saito
  • Patent number: 8385635
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a screen processing unit that performs, on a color component basis, screen processing for a color signal having basic color components and at least one spot color component. The screen processing unit performs FM screen processing for one of the basic color components of the color signal and performs AM screen processing for the color components, other than the one of the basic color components, of the color signal with four types of screen angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouta Matsuo, Toru Misaizu, Takeshi Saito, Shigeru Arai
  • Publication number: 20130021624
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an edge-portion detector, an edge-width detector, and a tone correction unit. The edge-portion detector detects a pixel of an edge portion by determining whether or not each of pixels constituting image data which has been input is a pixel which is included in the edge portion. The edge-width detector detects, for the pixel of the edge portion detected by the edge-portion detector, an edge width which is a width of the edge portion. When the edge width detected by the edge-width detector is smaller than a value which is set in advance, the tone correction unit performs tone correction differently in accordance with the detected edge width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru MISAIZU, Kenji HARA, Shigeru ARAI, Koichi MATSUBARA, Kouta MATSUO