Patents by Inventor Yoshihisa Kamata
Yoshihisa Kamata 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: 7744325Abstract: This invention provides a booklet making method including a cutting size setting step of setting a cutting size on the basis of a difference amount between a layout position of an image when a layout interval between images printed on a printing medium is minimum and a layout position of an image when the layout interval between images is maximum; an image printing step of adjusting the layout interval between the images printed on the printing medium in accordance with a position of the printing medium upon binding, and printing an image on the printing medium; a binding step of binding a plurality of printing media bearing images to prepare a printing medium bundle; a folding step of folding the printing medium in half; and a cutting step of cutting an edge of the printing medium bundle on the basis of the cutting size.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2006Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Masaru Ushio, Junichi Isamikawa, Yoshihisa Kamata
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Patent number: 7660001Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a document conveyance section for conveying a document of a document bundle to a document reading position; a reading section for reading the document in the document bundle to obtain image of the document; a designation section for designating to read a first document of the document bundle as a document with a tab; and a reading control section for controlling the reading section to read image for a whole document area of the first document including a tab potion, when designated by the designation section.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2005Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Takao Kurohata, Jun Yokobori, Yoshihisa Kamata
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Patent number: 7576873Abstract: This invention is directed to an image printing apparatus which prints an original image as image information on a recording sheet and performs postprocessing on the recording sheet after printing operation. According to the image printing apparatus of the invention, image printing conditions include conditions concerning postprocessing to be executed by a punch unit and postprocessing device and selection information of a main tray or sub-tray. The image printing conditions are stored after being set as individual image printing conditions for each image information and linked to the image information. When image printing conditions are to be read out by a page readout unit, such individual image printing conditions are read out together with image information, printing and postprocessing are executed for each image information, i.e., each original image.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2004Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings Inc.Inventors: Takao Kurohata, Yoshihisa Kamata, Minoru Asakawa
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Publication number: 20090122346Abstract: An image read-out through a scanner section is stored in a memory device 69 as an image for test print. When a job is inputted, selection of the image used for the test print among images registered in advance and designation of a test print cycle are received form the user. During execution of the job, when a sample timing arrives or a manual test print instruction is received, the test print is carried out in a way that the image designated for the test print is formed on a sheet, and the sheet is ejected to a sub-tray.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Inventor: Yoshihisa KAMATA
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Publication number: 20080292352Abstract: This invention is directed to an image printing apparatus which prints an original image as image information on a recording sheet and performs postprocessing on the recording sheet after printing operation. According to the image printing apparatus of the invention, image printing conditions include conditions concerning postprocessing to be executed by a punch unit and postprocessing device and selection information of a main tray or sub-tray. The image printing conditions are stored after being set as individual image printing conditions for each image information and linked to the image information. When image printing conditions are to be read out by a page readout unit, such individual image printing conditions are read out together with image information, printing and postprocessing are executed for each image information, i.e., each original image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Takao KUROHATA, Yoshihisa Kamata, Minoru Asakawa
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Publication number: 20080137140Abstract: This invention is directed to an image printing apparatus which prints an original image as image information on a recording sheet and performs postprocessing on the recording sheet after printing operation. According to the image printing apparatus of the invention, image printing conditions include conditions concerning postprocessing to be executed by a punch unit and postprocessing device and selection information of a main tray or sub-tray. The image printing conditions are stored after being set as individual image printing conditions for each image information and linked to the image information. When image printing conditions are to be read out by a page readout unit, such individual image printing conditions are read out together with image information, printing and postprocessing are executed for each image information, i.e., each original image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2008Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Takao Kurohata, Yoshihisa Kamata, Minoru Asakawa
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Publication number: 20070017397Abstract: This invention provides an image printing system including an image printing apparatus which prints an image on a sheet as a recording medium, a sheet post-processing section which performs post-processing with respect to the sheet on which an image is printed by the image printing apparatus, a storage section which stores an regulation parameter for the image printing apparatus, which is associated with setting of the sheet post-processing operation, and an regulation parameter changing section which can change the regulation parameter for each job to be executed, a control method for the system, and a control program.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2006Publication date: January 25, 2007Inventors: Yoshihisa Kamata, Masahiro Osawa, Masaru Ushio
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Publication number: 20070008589Abstract: This invention provides a booklet making method including a cutting size setting step of setting a cutting size on the basis of a difference amount between a layout position of an image when a layout interval between images printed on a printing medium is minimum and a layout position of an image when the layout interval between images is maximum; an image printing step of adjusting the layout interval between the images printed on the printing medium in accordance with a position of the printing medium upon binding, and printing an image on the printing medium; a binding step of binding a plurality of printing media bearing images to prepare a printing medium bundle; a folding step of folding the printing medium in half; and a cutting step of cutting an edge of the printing medium bundle on the basis of the cutting size.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2006Publication date: January 11, 2007Inventors: Masaru Ushio, Junichi Isamikawa, Yoshihisa Kamata
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Publication number: 20060262337Abstract: This invention provides an image printing apparatus including a communication unit which communicatively connects to at least another image printing apparatus, a tandem output mode, a paper feed unit which feeds recording sheets, a comparison and determination unit which compares the information of recording sheets which can be fed from the paper feed unit with paper size information and paper type information in another image printing apparatus which has received by the communication unit in the tandem output mode, and determines a paper size match/mismatch and a paper type match/mismatch, and a mismatch notification unit which notifies a mismatch when one or both of the paper size and the paper type exhibits a mismatch upon receiving a determination result from the comparison and determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2006Publication date: November 23, 2006Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kamata, Junichi Isamikawa, Masahiro Osawa
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Patent number: 7102766Abstract: The present invention concerns an image-forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material, an area of which is wider than that of a standard fixed-form size having a predetermined fixed-form size, based on an original image recorded on a document.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2001Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Minoru Asakawa, Yoshinao Kitahara, Yoshihisa Kamata, Chikatsu Suzuki, Junji Sato
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Publication number: 20060164696Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a document conveyance section for conveying a document of a document bundle to a document reading position; a reading section for reading the document in the document bundle to obtain image data of the document; a designation section for designating to read a first document of the document bundle as a document with a tab; and a reading control section for controlling the reading section to read image data for a whole document area of the first document including a tab potion, when designated by the designation section.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2005Publication date: July 27, 2006Inventors: Takao Kurohata, Jun Yokobori, Yoshihisa Kamata
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Publication number: 20050270563Abstract: Disclosed in one embodiment is an image forming apparatus 100 that obtains information about paper sheets on trays from an image control CPU 85, compares the obtained information to paper information entered at an operation section 48 and controls an LCD 18 not to display the quantities of left-over paper when the entered paper information is not equal to the information of paper sheets on trays.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2005Publication date: December 8, 2005Inventors: Yoshihisa Kamata, Takao Kurohata, Hironobu Hirayama
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Patent number: 6954277Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording sheet whose area is larger than that of a predetermined size-fixed recording sheet, comprises an image forming member for forming an image on the recording sheet; a sheet feeder to feed the recording sheet to the image forming member; a controller to control the image forming member so as to form an image on the recording sheet such that a first central point of the recording sheet defined in terms of a main scanning direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the recording sheet by the sheet feeder is placed on a first center line of the image, wherein the first center line is perpendicular to the main scanning direction, and one side of the image is parallel to one side of the recording sheet.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2001Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Kamata, Masaru Ushio, Jun Yokobori, Minoru Asakawa, Junji Sato
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Publication number: 20040174551Abstract: This invention is directed to an image printing apparatus which prints an original image as image information on a recording sheet and performs postprocessing on the recording sheet after printing operation. According to the image printing apparatus of the invention, image printing conditions include conditions concerning postprocessing to be executed by a punch unit and postprocessing device and selection information of a main tray or sub-tray. The image printing conditions are stored after being set as individual image printing conditions for each image information and linked to the image information. When image printing conditions are to be read out by a page readout unit, such individual image printing conditions are read out together with image information, printing and postprocessing are executed for each image information, i.e., each original image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2004Publication date: September 9, 2004Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Takao Kurohata, Yoshihisa Kamata, Minoru Asakawa
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Patent number: 6728499Abstract: An image forming apparatus with a left time informing function, which can accurately predict time required for finishing forming an image. The image forming apparatus with a left time informing function, has: a storage for storing data of various types of basic operation time for forming an image, therein; and a status management section for calculating and informing left time required for completing forming the image on the basis of the data stored in the storage, when a condition of forming the image is determined; wherein the basic operation time include print time corresponding to a single-sided mode and a double-sided mode, respectively, for every size of a transfer sheet, and interprocessing time for every postprocessing.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2002Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Masaru Ushio, Masahiro Osawa, Yoshihisa Kamata
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Publication number: 20030231342Abstract: An image formation system including a plurality of image formation apparatuses connected to a network that have at least one main image formation apparatus and one sub image formation apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2003Publication date: December 18, 2003Inventors: Takao Kurohata, Yoshihisa Kamata, Masahiro Osawa
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Patent number: 6625406Abstract: An image forming system for connecting a plurality of image forming apparatus and which is capable of conducting a tandem operation such that an image input by one of the plurality of image forming apparatus is output by the plurality of image forming apparatus and which includes job reserving sections provided on each of the image forming apparatus, for reserving an image forming job, wherein while conducting the tandem operation, any of the job reserving sections on the image forming apparatus is capable of reserving a job.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2001Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Chikatsu Suzuki, Junji Sato, Akio Ueda, Yoshihisa Kamata
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Publication number: 20030059223Abstract: An image forming apparatus with a left time informing function, which can accurately predict time required for finishing forming an image. The image forming apparatus with a left time informing function, has: a storage for storing data of various types of basic operation time for forming an image, therein; and a status management section for calculating and informing left time required for completing forming the image on the basis of the data stored in the storage, when a condition of forming the image is determined; wherein the basic operation time include print time corresponding to a single-sided mode and a double-sided mode, respectively, for every size of a transfer sheet, and interprocessing time for every postprocessing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2002Publication date: March 27, 2003Inventors: Masaru Ushio, Masahiro Osawa, Yoshihisa Kamata
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Publication number: 20020031364Abstract: An image forming system for connecting a plurality of image forming apparatus and being capable of conducting a tandem operation such that an image inputted by one of the plurality of image forming apparatus is outputted by the plurality of image forming apparatus, the system comprises:Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2001Publication date: March 14, 2002Applicant: Konica CorporationInventors: Chikatsu Suzuki, Junji Sato, Akio Ueda, Yoshihisa Kamata
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Publication number: 20010050783Abstract: An image forming apparatus, comprises an image information receiving section to receive image information including image data and setting data indicating a control condition at the time of an image formation; a first storing section to store temporarily the image information received by the image information receiving section as one of a plurality of JOB data; an image forming section to form an image based on the image information stored in the first storing section; a second storing section to store image information corresponding to specific JOB data among the image information received by the image information receiving section; a selecting section to select JOB data to be combined from the plurality of JOB data stored in the second storing section; a judging section to judge the propriety of the JOB data selected by the selecting section based on the content of the setting data of the selected JOB data; and a control section to combine a plurality of JOB data judged as being selectable by the judging seType: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2001Publication date: December 13, 2001Applicant: Konica CorporationInventors: Junji Sato, Yoshinao Kitahara, Yoshihisa Kamata, Yasumasa Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Hirata, Jun Yokobori, Chikatsu Suzuki