Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Watanabe

Toshihiro Watanabe 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: 9225874
    Abstract: In an image reading apparatus, a control device controls a reading unit to start reading a document; stores first image data in a storage unit on a block-to-block basis to sequentially store each of a plurality of first blocks of data, the plurality of first blocks included in the first image data; performs, each time each first block of data is stored in the storage unit, a plurality of image processing on the first block of data to generate a second block of data including a plurality of types of data different from one another; and deletes one of the plurality of first blocks of data from the storage unit after completion of the plurality of image processing on the one of the plurality of first blocks of data before completion of the plurality of image processing on all of the plurality of first blocks of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshihiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150373218
    Abstract: In an image-reading device, a reading unit reads an object. An edge image generation generates a plurality of sets of edge image data respectively corresponding to a plurality of target lines. The plurality of sets of edge image data includes a first set of edge image data corresponding to a first target line. A mask setting unit determines whether an edge pixel is included in the first set of edge image data. When the edge pixel is included in the first set of edge image data, the mask setting unit sets a mask region on the image. The mask region includes a part of the plurality of lines based on the first target line. An edge detection unit detects the edge pixel detects a positional coordinate of the edge pixel from among pixels in the plurality of sets of edge image data outside the mask region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventor: Toshihiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150373219
    Abstract: In an image-reading device, a reading unit optically reads an object. An edge image generation unit generates a plurality of sets of edge image data corresponding to a plurality of target lines. The plurality of sets of edge image data includes a first set of edge image corresponding to a first target line. The mask setting unit determines whether an edge pixel is included in the first set of edge image data. When the edge pixel is included in the first set of edge image data, the mask setting unit sets a mask region on the image. The edge detection unit detects a positional coordinate of the edge pixel from among pixels outside the mask region. The mask setting unit sets the mask region continuously and dynamically from the first target line to a target line on which detection of the edge pixel ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventor: Toshihiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150131132
    Abstract: In an image reading apparatus, a control device controls a reading unit to start reading a document; stores first image data in a storage unit on a block-to-block basis to sequentially store each of a plurality of first blocks of data, the plurality of first blocks included in the first image data; performs, each time each first block of data is stored in the storage unit, a plurality of image processing on the first block of data to generate a second block of data including a plurality of types of data different from one another; and deletes one of the plurality of first blocks of data from the storage unit after completion of the plurality of image processing on the one of the plurality of first blocks of data before completion of the plurality of image processing on all of the plurality of first blocks of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshihiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20140345483
    Abstract: A method of concentrating waste liquid from a plate-making process for a photosensitive planographic printing plate precursor, including: subjecting, in a single development processing bath of an automatic developing machine, a photosensitive planographic printing plate precursor, having a radical polymerizable image recording layer on a support, after exposure simultaneously to a development process and a desensitization process using a developer liquid that contains from 1 to 10% by mass of a surfactant having a phenyl or naphthyl group and an ethylene oxide or propylene oxide group, and has a content of an organic solvent having a boiling point of from 100° C. to 300° C. of 2% by mass or less; evaporatively concentrating plate-making process waste liquid produced by the processes using a waste liquid concentrating apparatus so as to have a volume of from 1/2 to 1/10; and producing reclaimed water by condensing water vapor separated in the evaporative concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro IMAIZUMI, Toshihiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20140347527
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an acquisition section, first conversion section, determination section, filtering section, and second conversion section. The acquisition section acquires first image data defined by a plurality of color components. The first conversion section converts, for each pixel data, the plurality of color components into converted pixel data defined by a luminance and a color difference. The determination section determines whether or not each converted pixel data is target pixel data having a black character attribute. The filtering section performs a filtering process on a luminance of each target pixel data using a filter coefficient to obtain processed pixel data defined by the luminance and the color difference. The filter coefficient enhances a difference in the luminance between the each target pixel data and neighboring pixel data. The second conversion section converts each processed pixel data into updated pixel data defined by the plurality of color components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihiro WATANABE, Atsushi YOKOCHI
  • Publication number: 20140234778
    Abstract: A method of recycling waste liquid from a plate-making process, including: performing a plate-making process using a development replenisher liquid that includes at least one selected from the group consisting of anionic surfactants having a naphthalene skeleton and nonionic surfactants having a naphthalene skeleton at a total content of from 1% by mass to 10% by mass, includes no or not more than 2% by mass of organic solvent having a boiling point of from 100° C. to 300° C., and has a pH of from 10 to 13; concentrating, by evaporating, the discharged plate-making process waste liquid, such that the ratio of the volume of the plate-making process waste liquid after concentration to the volume of the plate-making process waste liquid before concentration is within a range of from 1/10 to 1/2, thereby separating water vapor; and using the obtained regenerated water as diluent water and/or rinse water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumikazu KOBAYASHI, Toshihiro WATANABE
  • Patent number: 8767262
    Abstract: In an image processing device, the processor performs: (a) setting, as target pixel data, each set of pixel data; (b) selecting, from among the plurality of sets of pixel data, a plurality of first sets of pixel data corresponding to a plurality of first pixels positioned within a prescribed range of the image; (c) determining whether the plurality of first sets of pixel data represents a white background; (d) determining whether a variation in color difference components among the plurality of first sets of pixel data satisfies a prescribed condition; and (e) determining that target pixel data includes mosquito noise when the plurality of first sets of pixel data represents the white background and when the variation in the color difference component among the plurality of first sets of pixel data satisfies the prescribed condition. The prescribed range includes a pixel corresponding to the target pixel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8605337
    Abstract: An image scanning device has first and second image scanning units to scan an image on the front and rear surfaces of a document to sequentially output image data on a line-by-line basis. A determining unit determines whether or not the number of lines of the front image is greater than or equal to a predetermined number, and whether or not the number of lines of the rear image is greater than or equal to the predetermined number. A processing unit reads out the front and rear image data on a line-by-line basis for the predetermined number of lines and performs image-processing on the readout data if the number of lines of the front image data is greater than or equal to the predetermined number and performs image-processing on the readout data if the number of lines of the rear image data is greater than or equal to the predetermined number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8559066
    Abstract: In the image-reader, a first reading unit generates the first surface worth of first image data by reading a first surface of an document sheet. The second reading unit generates the second surface worth of second image data by reading a second surface. The process surface determining unit determines which of the first surface and the second surface is a process surface. The parameter storing unit stores a first parameter that corresponds to the first surface and a second parameter that corresponds to the second surface. The selecting unit selects one of the first parameter and the second parameter as a process parameter that corresponds to the process surface. The selecting unit outputs the process parameter. The image process executing unit executes an image process on the one of the first image data and the second image data by using the process parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiro Watanabe, Atsushi Yokochi
  • Publication number: 20130135639
    Abstract: In an image processing device, the processor performs: (a) setting, as target pixel data, each set of pixel data; (b) selecting, from among the plurality of sets of pixel data, a plurality of first sets of pixel data corresponding to a plurality of first pixels positioned within a prescribed range of the image; (c) determining whether the plurality of first sets of pixel data represents a white background; (d) determining whether a variation in color difference components among the plurality of first sets of pixel data satisfies a prescribed condition; and (e) determining that target pixel data includes mosquito noise when the plurality of first sets of pixel data represents the white background and when the variation in the color difference component among the plurality of first sets of pixel data satisfies the prescribed condition. The prescribed range includes a pixel corresponding to the target pixel data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Inventor: Toshihiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20120258543
    Abstract: To provide a method configured to effectively control in a simplifier manner any adverse influences from perspiration excreted from a skin currently measured when a biogenic substance from tissue fluid extracted through fine pores is measured, the method includes steps of: forming a film having a water impermeability on the test subject's skin; forming fine pores in the skin coated with the film so as to penetrate through the film; extracting the tissue fluid from the test subject through the skin where the fine pores are formed; storing the constituent to be measured and inorganic ions of the extracted tissue fluid; obtaining an ion information relating to a quantity of the stored inorganic ions and a constituent information relating to a quantity of the stored constituent; and obtaining an analysis value relating to the quantity of the constituent based on the ion information and the constituent information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: SYSMEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo KIKKAWA, Toshihiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20120175239
    Abstract: A method for processing waste solution in the plate-making process, in which the waste solution in the plate-making process, which is discharged when the plate-making process of a photosensitive planographic printing plate is carried out using a developer for a photosensitive planographic printing plate, the developer containing at least one sugar selected from non-reducing sugars and at least one base without containing a silicate and by having a pH from 9.0 to 13.5, is evaporated and concentrated by an evaporative concentration apparatus, thereby being separated into water vapor and a dissolved component, wherein, the waste solution in the plate-making process is heated by a heating means in an evaporation container that is provided with base resistance, and the water vapor separated from the waste solution in the plate-making process is taken out from the evaporation container and condensed in a cooling means, thereby being turned into reclaimed water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventors: Norio Aoshima, Toshihiro Watanabe, Fumikazu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8044206
    Abstract: The invention provides a novel nitrogen-containing heterocyclic derivative having 2,6-disubstituted styryl and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the nitrogen-containing heterocyclic derivative and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in particular, a pharmaceutical composition effective as a sodium channel inhibitor, having an excellent analgesic action especially on neuropathic pain with minimized side effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignees: Astellas Pharma Inc., Kotobuki Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumi Kikuchi, Makoto Oku, Jiro Fujiyasu, Norio Asai, Toshihiro Watanabe, Yukinori Nagakura, Hiroshi Tomiyama, Motoharu Sonegawa, Kazuo Tokuzaki, Yoshinori Iwai
  • Publication number: 20110188091
    Abstract: In the image-reader, a first reading unit generates the first surface worth of first image data by reading a first surface of an document sheet. The second reading unit generates the second surface worth of second image data by reading a second surface. The process surface determining unit determines which of the first surface and the second surface is a process surface. The parameter storing unit stores a first parameter that corresponds to the first surface and a second parameter that corresponds to the second surface. The selecting unit selects one of the first parameter and the second parameter as a process parameter that corresponds to the process surface. The selecting unit outputs the process parameter. The image process executing unit executes an image process on the one of the first image data and the second image data by using the process parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihiro WATANABE, Atsushi YOKOCHI
  • Publication number: 20110075227
    Abstract: An image scanning device includes a first image scanning unit, a second image scanning unit, a first storing unit, a second storing unit, a number of line determining unit, a determining unit, and a processing unit. The first image scanning unit is configured to scan an image on one of surfaces of an original document conveyed along a conveying path at a predetermined first scanning position to sequentially output image data on a line-by-line basis. The second image scanning unit is configured to scan an image on a remaining one of the surfaces of the original document conveyed along the conveying path at a predetermined second scanning position downstream along the conveying path from the first scanning position to sequentially output image data on a line-by-line basis. The first storing unit is configured to store the image data generated by the first image scanning unit. The second storing unit is configured to store the image data generated by the second image scanning unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshihiro WATANABE
  • Patent number: 7855198
    Abstract: There is provided a compound having a capsaicin receptor VR1 inhibitory activity and useful as a therapeutic agent for various pains including inflammatory pain and neurogenic pain, migraine, cluster headache, bladder diseases including overactive bladder, and the like. A benzamide derivative or a salt thereof wherein a benzene ring is attached to a D ring (a monocyclic or bicyclic hydrocarbon ring or a monocyclic or bicyclic heteroaromatic ring) through an amide bond, the benzene ring is directly bonded to an E ring (a monocyclic or bicyclic hydrocarbon ring or a monocyclic or bicyclic heteroaromatic ring), and the benzene ring is further bonded to A (an amino moiety, a monocyclic or bicyclic heterocycle) through L (a lower alkylene).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Astellas Pharma Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kuramochi, Norio Asai, Kazuhiro Ikegai, Seijiro Akamatsu, Hironori Harada, Noriko Ishikawa, Shohei Shirakami, Satoshi Miyamoto, Toshihiro Watanabe, Tetsuo Kiso
  • Publication number: 20100173248
    Abstract: A plate surface treatment agent for a lithographic printing plate is provided that includes a vinyl copolymer containing a monomer unit having at least one group selected from the group consisting of a phosphonic acid group, a phosphoric acid group, a carboxylic acid group, and a salt of these groups and a monomer unit having at least one group or structure selected from the group consisting of a sulfonic acid group, a salt thereof, an amide group, and a betaine structure. There is also provided a method for treating a lithographic printing plate that includes a step of imagewise exposing a lithographic printing plate precursor, a step of processing using a developer, and a step of carrying out a plate surface treatment using the plate surface treatment agent for a lithographic printing plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigekatsu Fujii, Norio Aoshima, Toshihiro Watanabe, Yasuhiro Kubota
  • Patent number: 7623688
    Abstract: An image recognition apparatus, method and program capable of discriminatively recognizing an object at an enhanced recognition rate despite an increase in the total number of reference images registered in image databases. When any individual person or public corporation for example is to be specified from the object image obtained by shooting the person or the like, one image database of the attribute corresponding to various situations, or familiarity to the object image is selected automatically, and then the person or corporation is specified from the shot image while referring to the reference images stored in the image database of the selected attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Machiko Segawa, Hiroshi Goto, Toshihiro Watanabe, Zhao Wenwu, Makoto Murata, Keigo Ihara
  • Publication number: 20090270365
    Abstract: There is provided a compound having a capsaicin receptor VR1 inhibitory activity and useful as a therapeutic agent for various pains including inflammatory pain and neurogenic pain, migraine, cluster headache, bladder diseases including overactive bladder, and the like. A benzamide derivative or a salt thereof wherein a benzene ring is attached to a D ring (a monocyclic or bicyclic hydrocarbon ring or a monocyclic or bicyclic heteroaromatic ring) through an amide bond, the benzene ring is directly bonded to an E ring (a monocyclic or bicyclic hydrocarbon ring or a monocyclic or bicyclic heteroaromatic ring), and the benzene ring is further bonded to A (an amino moiety, a monocyclic or bicyclic heterocycle) through L (a lower alkylene).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Astellas Pharma Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro KURAMOCHI, Norio ASAI, Kazuhiro IKEGAI, Seijiro AKAMATSU, Hironori HARADA, Noriko ISHIKAWA, Shohei SHIRAKAMI, Satoshi MIYAMOTO, Toshihiro WATANABE, Tetsuo KISO