Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Nagaoka

Tsutomu Nagaoka 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: 11798133
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor that performs image processing and that is constructed by using a reconfigurable-circuit device whose circuit is reconfigurable. The processor is configured to acquire image data that corresponds to each of one or more small regions into which an image is divided, determine a feature of the image data that is acquired and that corresponds to each of the one or more small regions, select a circuit configuration and perform processing in accordance with the obtained feature of the image data that corresponds to each of the one or more small regions, and cause a repository to retain rendering information, which is the image data that corresponds to each of the one or more small regions and that has undergone the processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Fumiaki Sugiyama, Junichi Uchiyama, Tsutomu Nagaoka, Susumu Kimura
  • Publication number: 20230314507
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an integrated circuit that is capable of reconfiguring a logic circuit, that executes data processing, and that is capable of acquiring signal data from an acquisition target position set in a circuit portion where the data processing is performed and outputting the signal data, a change unit that changes the acquisition target position in the circuit portion where the data processing of the integrated circuit is performed in a case where an error is generated in the data processing of the integrated circuit, and a control unit that causes the integrated circuit to re-execute the data processing in which the error is generated, after the acquisition target position is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Tsutomu NAGAOKA
  • Publication number: 20220108009
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a detector that detects unauthorized access; and a reconfiguration unit that, in response to detection of the unauthorized access by the detector, reconfigures a reconfiguration area where a circuit that defines an operation was present to a state in which the circuit does not execute an operation based on the circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Tsutomu NAGAOKA
  • Publication number: 20210192691
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor that performs image processing and that is constructed by using a reconfigurable-circuit device whose circuit is reconfigurable. The processor is configured to acquire image data that corresponds to each of one or more small regions into which an image is divided, determine a feature of the image data that is acquired and that corresponds to each of the one or more small regions, select a circuit configuration and perform processing in accordance with the obtained feature of the image data that corresponds to each of the one or more small regions, and cause a repository to retain rendering information, which is the image data that corresponds to each of the one or more small regions and that has undergone the processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiaki SUGIYAMA, Junichi UCHIYAMA, Tsutomu NAGAOKA, Susumu KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20190114110
    Abstract: A data processing device includes a software processing section that performs software processing on data, a hardware processing section that performs hardware processing on data, and a memory that stores data transmitted and received between the software processing section and the hardware processing section and sequentially outputs the stored data to the hardware processing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Masatomo IGARASHI, Masahiro ISHIWATA, Tsutomu NAGAOKA, Yoshinori AWATA
  • Patent number: 9797842
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device and method allowing a trace amount of a target substance to be detected. A metallic nanoparticle assembly structure is formed of metallic nanoparticles assembled together and modified with a host molecule allowing the target substance to specifically adhere thereto. A metallic nanorod is modified with a host molecule allowing the target substance to specifically adhere thereto. The metallic nanorod is conjugated to the metallic nanoparticle assembly structure by the target substance. An extinction spectrum of localized surface plasmon resonance or a surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectrum induced in the metallic nanoparticle assembly structure and the metallic nanostructure is measured with a spectroscope. The target substance is detected based on that spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: OSAKA PREFECTURE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shiho Tokonami, Takuya Iida, Yojiro Yamamoto, Hiroshi Shiigi, Tsutomu Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 9679232
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes the following elements. A circuit forming device forms a circuit configured in accordance with configuration information. A first storage unit stores first configuration information externally obtained via a first communication line. The first configuration information is used for forming a first circuit implementing a function including a first communication function in the circuit forming device. A second storage unit stores second configuration information different from the first configuration information. The second configuration information is used for forming a second circuit implementing a function including the first communication function in the circuit forming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuji Shimizu, Yoshinori Awata, Masahiro Ishiwata, Tsutomu Nagaoka, Keiichi Ito
  • Publication number: 20170061266
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes the following elements. A circuit forming device forms a circuit configured in accordance with configuration information. A first storage unit stores first configuration information externally obtained via a first communication line. The first configuration information is used for forming a first circuit implementing a function including a first communication function in the circuit forming device. A second storage unit stores second configuration information different from the first configuration information. The second configuration information is used for forming a second circuit implementing a function including the first communication function in the circuit forming device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuji SHIMIZU, Yoshinori AWATA, Masahiro ISHIWATA, Tsutomu NAGAOKA, Keiichi ITO
  • Publication number: 20160018391
    Abstract: The present invention is a sensor for detecting a microorganism, which is provided with a detection unit equipped with a detection electrode and a polymer layer, wherein the polymer layer is arranged on the detection electrode and is provided with a template having a three-dimensional structure complementary to a three-dimensional structure of a microorganism to be detected. The sensor detects a microorganism on the basis of the captured state of the microorganism onto the template. The polymer layer is formed by a manufacturing method including a polymerization step of polymerizing a monomer in the presence of the microorganism to be detected to form a polymer layer having the microorganism incorporated therein on the detection electrode, and a disruption step of bringing at least a part of the microorganism incorporated in the polymer layer into contact with a solution containing a lytic enzyme to disrupt the microorganism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicants: OSAKA PREFECTURE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mugihei IKEMIZU, Shiho TOKONAMI, Hiroshi SHIIGI, Tsutomu NAGAOKA
  • Patent number: 9206461
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sensor including a detection unit having a detection electrode and a polymer layer that is disposed on the detection electrode and includes a mold having a three-dimensional structure complementary to a steric structure of a microorganism to be detected. The sensor detects the microorganism based on a state of capturing the microorganism in the mold. The polymer layer is formed by a manufacturing method including: a polymerization step of polymerizing a monomer in the presence of the microorganism to be detected, to form the polymer layer having captured the microorganism on the detection electrode; a destruction step of partially destroying the microorganism captured in the polymer layer; and a peroxidation step of peroxidizing the polymer layer to release the microorganism from the polymer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignees: OSAKA PREFECTURE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiho Tokonami, Hiroshi Shiigi, Tsutomu Nagaoka, Mugihei Ikemizu, Mari Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20130337498
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sensor including a detection unit having a detection electrode and a polymer layer that is disposed on the detection electrode and includes a mold having a three-dimensional structure complementary to a steric structure of a microorganism to be detected. The sensor detects the microorganism based on a state of capturing the microorganism in the mold. The polymer layer is formed by a manufacturing method including: a polymerization step of polymerizing a monomer in the presence of the microorganism to be detected, to form the polymer layer having captured the microorganism on the detection electrode; a destruction step of partially destroying the microorganism captured in the polymer layer; and a peroxidation step of peroxidizing the polymer layer to release the microorganism from the polymer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, OSAKA PREFECTURE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shiho Tokonami, Hiroshi Shiigi, Tsutomu Nagaoka, Mugihei Ikemizu, Mari Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20130252275
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device and method allowing a trace amount of a target substance to be detected. A metallic nanoparticle assembly structure is formed of metallic nanoparticles assembled together and modified with a host molecule allowing the target substance to specifically adhere thereto. A metallic nanorod is modified with a host molecule allowing the target substance to specifically adhere thereto. The metallic nanorod is conjugated to the metallic nanoparticle assembly structure by the target substance. An extinction spectrum of localized surface plasmon resonance or a surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectrum induced in the metallic nanoparticle assembly structure and the metallic nanostructure is measured with a spectroscope. The target substance is detected based on that spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: OSAKA PREFECTURE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shiho Tokonami, Takuya Iida, Yojiro Yamamoto, Hiroshi Shiigi, Tsutomu Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 8508776
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: an assignment portion that, when a plurality of dynamic reconfigurable processors (DRPs) execute image processes by a pipeline process mode based on a print job, assigns identification numbers identifying the DRPs to the DRPs based on the number of DRPs; a first change portion that changes an assignment process by the assignment portion, based on whether a DRP of a final stage in the DRPs is connected to an outputting portion, the outputting portion outputting the results of the image processes to an outside; and a second change portion that, when the DRP of the final stage in the DRPs is disconnected from the outputting portion, further changes the assignment process by the assignment portion based on whether the DRPs are placed on only a single substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuji Shimizu, Tsutomu Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 8472060
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: an assignment portion that, when a plurality of dynamic reconfigurable processors (DRPs) execute image processes by a pipeline process mode based on a print job, assigns identification numbers identifying the DRPs to the DRPs based on the number of DRPs; and a change portion that changes an assignment process by the assignment portion, based on whether a DRP of a final stage in the DRPs is connected to an outputting portion, the outputting portion outputting the results of the image processes to an outside; wherein when the DRP of the final stage is connected to the outputting portion, the assignment portion calculates a maximum identification number based on the total of the number of DRPs, assigns the maximum identification number to the DRP of the final stage, and sequentially assigns values acquired by decreasing the maximum identification number to remaining DRPs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Nagaoka, Tatsuji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20110235094
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: an assignment portion that, when a plurality of dynamic reconfigurable processors (DRPs) execute image processes by a pipeline process mode based on a print job, assigns identification numbers identifying the DRPs to the DRPs based on the number of DRPs; a first change portion that changes an assignment process by the assignment portion, based on whether a DRP of a final stage in the DRPs is connected to an outputting portion, the outputting portion outputting the results of the image processes to an outside; and a second change portion that, when the DRP of the final stage in the DRPs is disconnected from the outputting portion, further changes the assignment process by the assignment portion based on whether the DRPs are placed on only a single substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuji SHIMIZU, Tsutomu NAGAOKA
  • Publication number: 20110228317
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: an assignment portion that, when a plurality of dynamic reconfigurable processors (DRPs) execute image processes by a pipeline process mode based on a print job, assigns identification numbers identifying the DRPs to the DRPs based on the number of DRPs; and a change portion that changes an assignment process by the assignment portion, based on whether a DRP of a final stage in the DRPs is connected to an outputting portion, the outputting portion outputting the results of the image processes to an outside; wherein when the DRP of the final stage is connected to the outputting portion, the assignment portion calculates a maximum identification number based on the total of the number of DRPs, assigns the maximum identification number to the DRP of the final stage, and sequentially assigns values acquired by decreasing the maximum identification number to remaining DRPs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu NAGAOKA, Tatsuji SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 7993737
    Abstract: The invention provides a natural fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin injection molding having an excellent ability to discharge static electricity. The natural fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin injection molding is obtained by injection-molding with using natural fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin pellets as a molding feedstock containing natural fibers as reinforcing fibers, has a natural fiber content of from 20 to 60 wt %. The natural fibers have an average length of from 1.5 to 4.0 mm. The natural fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin injection molding has an electrostatic voltage half-life, as determined by the half-life measurement method specified in JIS L 1094, of less than 40 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Tatsuya Tanaka, Takayasu Fujiura, Naoki Kikuchi, Naoyuki Tashiro, Atsushi Yamamoto, Tsutomu Nagaoka, Kentaro Okuno
  • Publication number: 20110001268
    Abstract: The invention provides a natural fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin injection molding having an excellent ability to discharge static electricity. The natural fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin injection molding is obtained by injection-molding with using natural fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin pellets as a molding feedstock containing natural fibers as reinforcing fibers, has a natural fiber content of from 20 to 60 wt %. The natural fibers have an average length of from 1.5 to 4.0 mm. The natural fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin injection molding has an electrostatic voltage half-life, as determined by the half-life measurement method specified in JIS L 1094, of less than 40 seconds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO
    Inventors: Tatsuya Tanaka, Takayasu Fujiura, Naoki Kikuchi, Naoyuki Tashiro, Atsushi Yamamoto, Tsutomu Nagaoka, Kentaro Okuno
  • Patent number: 7041247
    Abstract: In an injection compression-molding apparatus, a molded article is produced by setting molds 10 and 11 to an intermediate clamped state, and then by setting the molds 10 and 11 to a final clamped state by re-clamping the molds 10 and 11 to each other after injecting melted resin into a cavity defined by the molds 10 and 11. The apparatus includes a clamping mechanism and a parallelism retaining mechanism 20. The clamping mechanism has a mold-driving cylinder 7 for moving the movable mold 10 toward and away from the fixed mold 11, a guide engaging member 8, support panels 4, 5, etc. so as to selectively set the molds 10 and 11 to the intermediate clamped state and the final clamped state. The parallelism retaining mechanism 20 retains parallelism between the molds 10 and 11 in the intermediate clamped state by giving a corrective force to mold attaching surfaces of the clamping mechanism where the respective molds 10 and 11 are mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho, Teijin Chemicals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Nagaoka, Toshiaki Hotaka
  • Patent number: 6777084
    Abstract: A molded product consisting of a skin layer and a core layer is obtained by injecting a skin layer resin and a core layer resin from a skin injection unit 13 and a core injection unit 12 into metal molds 8, 9, respectively. The skin layer resin injection pressure by the skin injection unit 13 and the core layer resin injection pressure by the core injection unit 12 are controlled in such a manner that a volumetrically reduced quantity at the time of cooling and solidifying the skin layer resin is compensated so as not to generate defects such as hollows and the like in the molded product. It is characterized in that the state the core dwelling pressure is higher than the skin dwelling pressure over a predetermined length of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventor: Tsutomu Nagaoka