Patents by Inventor Yoshihiko Hotta

Yoshihiko Hotta 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: 10108562
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a plurality of masters (100), a memory controller (400a), a bus that connects the plurality of masters (100) and the memory controller (400a), a QoS information register (610) that stores QoS information of the plurality of masters (100), a right grant number controller (602) that calculates the number of grantable access rights based on space information of a buffer (401) of the memory controller (400a), a right grant selection controller (603a) that selects the master (100) which will be granted the access right based on the QoS information of the QoS information register (610) and the number of grantable rights from the right grant number controller (602), and a request issuing controller (201a) that does not pass a request of the master (100) which has not been granted the access right from the right grant selection controller (603a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Yamanaka, Toshiyuki Hiraki, Yoshihiko Hotta, Takahiro Irita
  • Patent number: 9987856
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes: a laser irradiation device including a plurality of laser output sections arranged side by side in a certain direction and configured to irradiate positions different from one another in the certain direction with laser light output from the plurality of laser output sections, the image recording apparatus being configured to irradiate a recording target moving relatively to the laser irradiation device in a relative movement direction different from the certain direction, with laser light to heat the recording target, and record a visible image on the recording target; and an image correction unit configured to adjust an irradiation condition of the laser light output from the plurality of laser output sections and correct distortion of an image recorded on a recording surface of the recording target based on a shape of the recording surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Ichiro Sawamura, Yoshihiko Hotta, Kazuyuki Uetake, Takahiro Furukawa, Tomomi Ishimi, Yasuroh Yokota
  • Patent number: 9899052
    Abstract: A recording method including: emitting laser light from an optical fiber array to record an image formed of writing units with moving a recording target and the optical fiber array relatively using a recording device including a plurality of laser light-emitting elements and an emitting unit including the optical fiber array, in which a plurality of optical fibers configured to guide laser light emitted from the laser light-emitting elements are aligned, wherein a maximum length of the writing unit along a sub-scanning direction is controlled with set values of: a duty ratio and a cycle of a pulse signal input to the emitting unit; recording energy applied to the recording target; and a spot diameter of the laser light, to record with overlapping an edge of the writing unit with an edge of the adjacent writing unit in the sub-scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Arai, Yoshihiko Hotta, Kazuyuki Uetake, Ichiro Sawamura, Tomomi Ishimi, Yasuroh Yokota
  • Publication number: 20170270063
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a plurality of masters (100), a memory controller (400a), a bus that connects the plurality of masters (100) and the memory controller (400a), a QoS information register (610) that stores QoS information of the plurality of masters (100), a right grant number controller (602) that calculates the number of grantable access rights based on space information of a buffer (401) of the memory controller (400a), a right grant selection controller (603a) that selects the master (100) which will be granted the access right based on the QoS information of the QoS information register (610) and the number of grantable rights from the right grant number controller (602), and a request issuing controller (201a) that does not pass a request of the master (100) which has not been granted the access right from the right grant selection controller (603a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Sho YAMANAKA, Toshiyuki HIRAKI, Yoshihiko HOTTA, Takahiro IRITA
  • Publication number: 20170225489
    Abstract: Recording method including: emitting laser-light from optical-fiber-array to record image of writing-units with moving recording target and the optical-fiber-array relatively using recording device including laser-light-emitting-elements and emitting unit including the optical-fiber-array, where optical fibers to guide laser-light emitted from the laser-light-emitting-elements are aligned, wherein diagonal line A?C is longer than B in the image formed by overlapping or adjoining at least part of the writing-units in main-scanning direction, where B is length of ½ line width of the writing-unit in main-scanning direction, A is center of edge of the writing-unit in sub-scanning direction, A? is position proceeded from A towards inner-side of the writing-unit by B, line LL? is drawn to include A and be orthogonal to the writing-unit, diagonal-line is drawn with A as starting point and to have angle of 45° with line LL?, and C is intersection between the diagonal-line and the writing-unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki UETAKE, Yoshihiko HOTTA, Ichiro SAWAMURA, Tomomi ISHIMI, Yasuroh YOKOTA
  • Publication number: 20170229143
    Abstract: A recording method including: emitting laser light from an optical fiber array to record an image formed of writing units with moving a recording target and the optical fiber array relatively using a recording device including a plurality of laser light-emitting elements and an emitting unit including the optical fiber array, in which a plurality of optical fibers configured to guide laser light emitted from the laser light-emitting elements are aligned, wherein a maximum length of the writing unit along a sub-scanning direction is controlled with set values of: a duty ratio and a cycle of a pulse signal input to the emitting unit; recording energy applied to the recording target; and a spot diameter of the laser light, to record with overlapping an edge of the writing unit with an edge of the adjacent writing unit in the sub-scanning direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi ARAI, Yoshihiko HOTTA, Kazuyuki UETAKE, Ichiro SAWAMURA, Tomomi ISHIMI, Yasuroh YOKOTA
  • Publication number: 20170225488
    Abstract: A recording method including: emitting laser light from optical-fiber-array to record image of writing units with moving recording target and the optical fiber array relatively using recording device including laser light-emitting elements, and emitting unit including the optical-fiber-array, where optical fibers to guide laser light emitted from the laser light-emitting elements are aligned, wherein, where the laser light is applied from the optical fibers adjacent to each other in main-scanning direction to the recording target to record solid image of the writing units at least partially overlapped to each other in the main-scanning direction, recording is performed by reducing irradiation energy of the laser light for recording the writing units other than both edges of the solid image relative to the main-scanning direction, compared to irradiation energy of the laser light for recording the writing units present at the both edges of the solid image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi ARAI, Yoshihiko HOTTA, Kazuyuki UETAKE, Ichiro SAWAMURA, Tomomi ISHIMI, Yasuroh YOKOTA
  • Publication number: 20170225487
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes: a laser irradiation device including a plurality of laser output sections arranged side by side in a certain direction and configured to irradiate positions different from one another in the certain direction with laser light output from the plurality of laser output sections, the image recording apparatus being configured to irradiate a recording target moving relatively to the laser irradiation device in a relative movement direction different from the certain direction, with laser light to heat the recording target, and record a visible image on the recording target; and an image correction unit configured to adjust an irradiation condition of the laser light output from the plurality of laser output sections and correct distortion of an image recorded on a recording surface of the recording target based on a shape of the recording surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Ichiro SAWAMURA, Yoshihiko HOTTA, Kazuyuki UETAKE, Takahiro FURUKAWA, Tomomi ISHIMI, Yasuroh YOKOTA
  • Patent number: 9370955
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing method which includes any one of recording an image on a thermally reversible recording medium that can reversibly change any one of its transparency and color tone depending on temperature by irradiating and heating the thermally reversible recording medium with a laser beam, and erasing the image recorded on the thermally reversible recording medium by heating the thermally reversible recording medium, wherein in any one of the image recording and the image erasing, the thermally reversible recording medium is located at a position farther than a focal position of the laser beam, and at least any one of the image recording and the image erasing is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Kawahara, Yoshihiko Hotta, Tomomi Ishimi
  • Patent number: 9302524
    Abstract: A disclosed marking control device controls a marking device to mark a target image on a thermoreversible recording medium by applying a laser beam includes a marking position determination unit dividing the image into plural marking lines, and determining their marking positions; a marking order determination unit determining a marking order to mark the marking lines in mutually opposite directions; an adjusting unit adjusting a distance between a first ending point and a second starting point to be longer than a distance between a first starting point and a second ending point, or adjusting laser power applied to a second starting point side of the second marking line to be lower than the laser power applied to a second ending point side of the second marking line; and a marking instruction generator unit generating marking instructions including the marking positions of the marking lines and the marking order thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tomomi Ishimi, Shinya Kawahara, Toshiaki Asai, Yoshihiko Hotta
  • Patent number: 9272533
    Abstract: To provide an image processing method, including: image recording, wherein an image composed of a plurality of laser drawn lines is recorded by heating by irradiating parallel laser lights on a recording medium spaced by a predetermined distance, wherein, in the image recording, among the plurality of laser drawn lines constituting the image, at least two units of lines drawn with different energy, each composed of a pair of laser drawn lines adjacent to each other and with different irradiation energy, are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Asai, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tomomi Ishimi, Yoshihiko Hotta
  • Patent number: 9231717
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a one-segment tuner I/F that is connected to a one-segment tuner, a tuner I/F that is connected to a digital terrestrial tuner, a decoder that selectively decodes a first broadcast signal supplied from the one-segment tuner I/F and a second broadcast signal supplied from the tuner I/F, a general purpose processor that is provided separately from the decoder and decodes the first broadcast signal, and a switch unit that, based on signal intensity of the second broadcast wave, switches the decoding by the decoder between the first broadcast signal and the second broadcast signal while the general purpose processor is decoding the first broadcast signal. The one-segment tuner I/F, the tuner I/F, the decoder, the general purpose processor, and the switch unit are integrated on one chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hotta, Seiichi Saito, Kazushige Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 9162480
    Abstract: A method for uniformly erasing an image recorded on a thermo-reversible recording medium. The image erasing apparatus includes an LD array, which emits a laser light whose cross section has a line shape; optics which include at least one cylindrical lens which converts, into a converging light which converges in a width direction, a line-shaped laser light which is emitted from the LD array and emits the converging light; and a mono-axial galvano mirror which deflects the laser light emitted from the optics in the width direction to scan the deflected laser light onto the thermo-reversible recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomomi Ishimi, Shinya Kawahara, Toshiaki Asai, Yoshihiko Hotta
  • Publication number: 20150229419
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a one-segment tuner I/F that is connected to a one-segment tuner, a tuner I/F that is connected to a digital terrestrial tuner, a decoder that selectively decodes a first broadcast signal supplied from the one-segment tuner I/F and a second broadcast signal supplied from the tuner I/F, a general purpose processor that is provided separately from the decoder and decodes the first broadcast signal, and a switch unit that, based on signal intensity of the second broadcast wave, switches the decoding by the decoder between the first broadcast signal and the second broadcast signal while the general purpose processor is decoding the first broadcast signal. The one-segment tuner I/F, the tuner I/F, the decoder, the general purpose processor, and the switch unit are integrated on one chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hotta, Seiichi Saito, Kazushige Yamagishi
  • Publication number: 20150151550
    Abstract: To provide an image processing method, including: image recording, wherein an image composed of a plurality of laser drawn lines is recorded by heating by irradiating parallel laser lights on a recording medium spaced by a predetermined distance, wherein, in the image recording, among the plurality of laser drawn lines constituting the image, at least two units of lines drawn with different energy, each composed of a pair of laser drawn lines adjacent to each other and with different irradiation energy, are formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Asai, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tomomi Ishimi, Yoshihiko Hotta
  • Patent number: 9036093
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a one-segment tuner I/F that is connected to a one-segment tuner, a tuner I/F that is connected to a digital terrestrial tuner, a decoder that selectively decodes a first broadcast signal supplied from the one-segment tuner I/F and a second broadcast signal supplied from the tuner I/F, a general purpose processor that is provided separately from the decoder and decodes the first broadcast signal, and a switch unit that, based on signal intensity of the second broadcast wave, switches the decoding by the decoder between the first broadcast signal and the second broadcast signal while the general purpose processor is decoding the first broadcast signal. The one-segment tuner I/F, the tuner I/F, the decoder, the general purpose processor, and the switch unit are integrated on one chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hotta, Seiichi Saito, Kazushige Yamagishi
  • Publication number: 20150080214
    Abstract: A disclosed marking control device controls a marking device to mark a target image on a thermoreversible recording medium by applying a laser beam includes a marking position determination unit dividing the image into plural marking lines, and determining their marking positions; a marking order determination unit determining a marking order to mark the marking lines in mutually opposite directions; an adjusting unit adjusting a distance between a first ending point and a second starting point to be longer than a distance between a first starting point and a second ending point, or adjusting laser power applied to a second starting point side of the second marking line to be lower than the laser power applied to a second ending point side of the second marking line; and a marking instruction generator unit generating marking instructions including the marking positions of the marking lines and the marking order thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Tomomi ISHIMI, Shinya KAWAHARA, Toshiaki ASAI, Yoshihiko HOTTA
  • Patent number: 8933981
    Abstract: A disclosed marking control device controls a marking device to mark a target image on a thermoreversible recording medium by applying a laser beam includes a marking position determination unit dividing the image into plural marking lines, and determining their marking positions; a marking order determination unit determining a marking order to mark the marking lines in mutually opposite directions; an adjusting unit adjusting a distance between a first ending point and a second starting point to be longer than a distance between a first starting point and a second ending point, or adjusting laser power applied to a second starting point side of the second marking line to be lower than the laser power applied to a second ending point side of the second marking line; and a marking instruction generator unit generating marking instructions including the marking positions of the marking lines and the marking order thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tomomi Ishimi, Shinya Kawahara, Toshiaki Asai, Yoshihiko Hotta
  • Patent number: 8852856
    Abstract: To provide an image processing method including at least one of recording an image onto a thermoreversible recording medium in which transparency or color tone reversibly changes depending upon temperature, by applying a laser beam with the use of a CO2 laser device so as to heat the thermoreversible recording medium, and erasing an image recorded on the thermoreversible recording medium, by heating the thermoreversible recording medium, wherein an intensity distribution of the laser beam applied in the image recording step satisfies the relationship represented by Expression 1 shown below, 1.59<I1/I2?2.00??Expression 1 where I1 denotes an irradiation intensity of the applied laser beam in a central position of the applied laser beam, and I2 denotes an irradiation intensity of the applied laser beam on a plane corresponding to 80% of the total irradiation energy of the applied laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Kawahara, Tomomi Ishimi, Yoshihiko Hotta
  • Publication number: 20140285606
    Abstract: A method for uniformly erasing an image recorded on a thermo-reversible recording medium. The image erasing apparatus includes an LD array, which emits a laser light whose cross section has a line shape; optics which include at least one cylindrical lens which converts, into a converging light which converges in a width direction, a line-shaped laser light which is emitted from the LD array and emits the converging light; and a mono-axial galvano mirror which deflects the laser light emitted from the optics in the width direction to scan the deflected laser light onto the thermo-reversible recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Tomomi Ishimi, Shinya Kawahara, Toshiaki Asai, Yoshihiko Hotta