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).
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Patent number: 10108562Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 1, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Sho Yamanaka, Toshiyuki Hiraki, Yoshihiko Hotta, Takahiro Irita
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Patent number: 9987856Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Ichiro Sawamura, Yoshihiko Hotta, Kazuyuki Uetake, Takahiro Furukawa, Tomomi Ishimi, Yasuroh Yokota
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Patent number: 9899052Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 2, 2017Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Arai, Yoshihiko Hotta, Kazuyuki Uetake, Ichiro Sawamura, Tomomi Ishimi, Yasuroh Yokota
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Publication number: 20170270063Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2015Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Sho YAMANAKA, Toshiyuki HIRAKI, Yoshihiko HOTTA, Takahiro IRITA
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Publication number: 20170225489Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kazuyuki UETAKE, Yoshihiko HOTTA, Ichiro SAWAMURA, Tomomi ISHIMI, Yasuroh YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20170229143Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi ARAI, Yoshihiko HOTTA, Kazuyuki UETAKE, Ichiro SAWAMURA, Tomomi ISHIMI, Yasuroh YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20170225488Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi ARAI, Yoshihiko HOTTA, Kazuyuki UETAKE, Ichiro SAWAMURA, Tomomi ISHIMI, Yasuroh YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20170225487Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Ichiro SAWAMURA, Yoshihiko HOTTA, Kazuyuki UETAKE, Takahiro FURUKAWA, Tomomi ISHIMI, Yasuroh YOKOTA
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Patent number: 9370955Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Shinya Kawahara, Yoshihiko Hotta, Tomomi Ishimi
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Patent number: 9302524Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tomomi Ishimi, Shinya Kawahara, Toshiaki Asai, Yoshihiko Hotta
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Patent number: 9272533Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 17, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki Asai, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tomomi Ishimi, Yoshihiko Hotta
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Patent number: 9231717Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Yoshihiko Hotta, Seiichi Saito, Kazushige Yamagishi
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Patent number: 9162480Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 28, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tomomi Ishimi, Shinya Kawahara, Toshiaki Asai, Yoshihiko Hotta
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Publication number: 20150229419Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Yoshihiko Hotta, Seiichi Saito, Kazushige Yamagishi
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Publication number: 20150151550Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki Asai, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tomomi Ishimi, Yoshihiko Hotta
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Patent number: 9036093Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 7, 2014Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiko Hotta, Seiichi Saito, Kazushige Yamagishi
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Publication number: 20150080214Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Tomomi ISHIMI, Shinya KAWAHARA, Toshiaki ASAI, Yoshihiko HOTTA
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Patent number: 8933981Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 14, 2010Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tomomi Ishimi, Shinya Kawahara, Toshiaki Asai, Yoshihiko Hotta
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Patent number: 8852856Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 8, 2008Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Shinya Kawahara, Tomomi Ishimi, Yoshihiko Hotta
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Publication number: 20140285606Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2012Publication date: September 25, 2014Inventors: Tomomi Ishimi, Shinya Kawahara, Toshiaki Asai, Yoshihiko Hotta