Patents by Inventor Yuichi Araki

Yuichi Araki 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: 11964835
    Abstract: A medium feeding device includes a storage unit that stores media in a form of a sheet, a delivery unit that is disposed downstream in a medium delivery direction relative to the media stored in the storage unit and that delivers the media individually, a transfer unit that is disposed above the storage unit and that adheres by suction to each of the media stored in the storage unit and transfers the media to the delivery unit, and a fluffing unit that is disposed beside the media stored in the storage unit in a direction intersecting the medium delivery direction. The fluffing unit fluffs an upper-side region of the media in a state of being separated, by blowing air toward a side of the media during a feeding job of the media and during a post-feeding period that is a predetermined period after completion of the feeding job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuichi Araki, Masahito Niwa
  • Publication number: 20240101376
    Abstract: A medium supply device includes: a loading unit on which media are loadable in an up-down direction; a supply unit that supplies air to a plural media loaded on the loading unit to float and separate the plural media; a transporting unit that sequentially feed the media that are floated and separated by the supply unit; a photographing unit that photographs a state in which the media are floated and separated by the supply unit; and a light irradiation unit that irradiates end portions of the media on a photographing side of the photographing unit with light from a plural different positions in the up-down direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuichi ARAKI, Kazuhiko Horikawa, Ryosuke Yonesaka
  • Publication number: 20240101374
    Abstract: A medium feeding device includes: multiple transporters each including a stacking unit on which a medium is stackable in a vertical direction, a feeder that feeds air to multiple media, each of which is the medium, stacked on the stacking unit to cause the multiple media to float and separate, a delivery unit that successively delivers the media floated and separated by the feeder, and a detector that detects a state of the medium floated and separated by the feeder; and at least one processor configured to: upon detection of a state of possibility of jam or multi feeding of the medium by the detector of one of the multiple transporters during transport, switch to another transporter at a predetermined timing to feed the medium; and upon detection of the state of possibility of jam or multi feeding of the medium by the detector, change an amount of air feed by the feeder of the one transporter before being switched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuichi ARAKI, Yoshiyuki KITAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240101371
    Abstract: A medium supply device includes: a stacking unit in which media are stackable in a vertical direction; a first regulating unit that is provided on the stacking unit and that regulates positions of side portions of the media in a width direction; a supply unit that supplies air to more than one of the media stacked on the stacking unit so that the more than one of the media are raised and separated from each other; a transport unit that successively feeds the media that are raised and separated from each other by the supply unit; a detection unit that detects conditions of the media that are raised and separated from each other by the supply unit from outside in the width direction; a second regulating unit that is attached to an upper section of the stacking unit when the media stacked in the stacking unit are second media and that regulates positions of side portions of the second media in the width direction, the second media having a smaller dimension than first media in the width direction; and a moving u
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yohei ONOUE, Yuichi ARAKI
  • Patent number: 11825066
    Abstract: There is provided a video reproduction apparatus, a reproduction method, and a program that can suppress a decline in the degree of immersion of a viewer. A video generation apparatus of the present disclosure acquires a first 3D shape video generated from a plurality of viewpoint videos obtained by capturing images of a subject from different viewpoints, and a second 3D shape video being a video different from the first 3D shape video, and switches a frame to be reproduced, from a frame of the first 3D shape video to a frame of the second 3D shape video on the basis of a state of a viewer viewing the first 3D shape video. The present disclosure may be applied, for example, to a video generation apparatus, a video processing apparatus, a video reproduction apparatus, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Araki, Yuichi Hasegawa, Nobuaki Izumi
  • Patent number: 11802014
    Abstract: A sheet-shaped-medium feeder includes a housing, a mount portion that is disposed to be vertically movable in the housing and that receives sheet-shaped media, a lift that vertically raises or lowers the mount portion, a discharger that transports the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion to a transport portion by sucking the sheet-shaped media with a suction portion in order from an upper one of the sheet-shaped media, left and right side walls that come into contact with left and right edges, in a feed width, of the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion, left and right air outlets that are disposed in the left and right side walls, and blow air to the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion at the left and right edges in the feed width, left and right first limiters that are respectively disposed on the left and right side walls, and limit a height of at least one of the sheet-shaped media that floats with air blown by the left and right air outlets by coming into contact with an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shoichi Maeda, Masahito Niwa, Yuichi Araki
  • Patent number: 11795016
    Abstract: A sheet-shaped-medium feeder includes a housing, a mount portion that is disposed to be vertically movable in the housing and that receives sheet-shaped media, a lift that vertically raises or lowers the mount portion, a discharger that transports the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion in order from an upper one of the sheet-shaped media, and first air outlets that blow air to the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion at left and right edges in a feed width of the sheet-shaped media. The mount portion is changeable to a long mount portion capable of receiving long sheet-shaped media by extending an end portion of the mount portion upstream from an unchanged position in a transportation direction of the sheet-shaped media, the end portion corresponding to an upstream end portion in the transportation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shoichi Maeda, Teruki Naganuma, Masahito Niwa, Yuichi Araki, Yoshiki Kimura
  • Patent number: 11767184
    Abstract: A feeder includes a body, a mount portion disposed in the body to support from below part of recording media stacked thereon, a lift that raises the mount portion, a support portion connected to the body to support from below another part of the recording media while the mount portion is raised, the support portion being located higher than a position of a mount surface of the mount portion while the recording media are stacked on the mount portion, a blowing portion that blows air between the recording media stacked on the mount portion, and a transport portion that transports the recording media stacked on the mount portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shoichi Maeda, Masahito Niwa, Yuichi Araki, Yoshiki Kimura
  • Patent number: 11685622
    Abstract: A medium feeding device includes a storage unit that stores media in a form of a sheet, a delivery unit that is disposed downstream in a medium delivery direction relative to the media stored in the storage unit and that delivers the media individually, a transfer unit that is disposed above the storage unit and that sticks by suction to each of the media stored in the storage unit and transfers the media to the delivery unit individually, and a fluffing unit that is disposed beside the media stored in the storage unit in a direction intersecting the medium delivery direction. The fluffing unit fluffs an upper-side region of the media in a state of being separated by blowing air toward a side of the media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masahito Niwa, Yuichi Araki, Shoichi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20230087663
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a 3D model data generation method capable of easily adjusting an image capturing environment. The image processing apparatus includes an adjustment unit that adjusts camera parameters on the basis of a comparison result between a reference image based on images obtained by capturing images of a predetermined subject at different timings, and a captured image obtained by capturing an image of the same subject in a current environment. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, an image processing system that performs image capturing for generating a 3D model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi ARAKI
  • Patent number: 11565897
    Abstract: A sheet feeder including: a housing including a mount portion that receives recording media; an open-close portion that is disposed on an upper surface of the housing to close the mount portion and rotates about a first hinge to open or close a mount space over the mount portion; and a manual insertion portion at least part of which is disposed on the open-close portion to receive manually inserted recording media, the manual insertion portion being rotatable about the first hinge or a second hinge disposed parallel to the first hinge to rotate upward from a position where the manual insertion portion overlaps the open-close portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shoichi Maeda, Masahito Niwa, Yuichi Araki, Yoshiki Kimura, Misaki Suruga
  • Patent number: 11479424
    Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a processor configured to change lifting control for lifting sheets on a tray, which are to be floated up and handed over, from normal state control to small-quantity state control in a case where it is detected that the remaining number of sheets on the tray is small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuichi Araki, Shoichi Maeda, Kiyoshi Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Kitazawa
  • Patent number: 11440759
    Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a processor configured to adjust movement of a transport unit that transports a sheet on the basis of a transport load of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuichi Araki, Masahito Niwa
  • Publication number: 20220163670
    Abstract: A threat coping system (10) is provided with a threat coping device (300) that copes with a coping target (30) and a control device (200) that controls the threat coping device. The control device (200) is provided with a no-coping area setting means (514) and a coping instruction means (526). The no-coping area setting means (514) sets a no-coping area (12) based on information of a no-coping target that is not to cope with. The coping instruction means (526) generates an instruction signal, that instructs the threat coping device to cope a coping target, based on the no-coping area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi OCHIAI, Koichi HAMAMOTO, Tomoya MORIOKA, Hiroyuki DAIGO, Kazunori MASUKAWA, Shingo NISHIKATA, Yoshinori KAMIYA, Yuichi ARAKI
  • Patent number: 11328379
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that enable selection of viewpoints of depth images suitable for creation of a 3D model. A viewpoint determination unit determines that a candidate viewpoint be a viewpoint of a depth image of a 3D model on the basis of the 3D model projected on a screen from the candidate viewpoint. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an encoding device or the like that generates and encodes color images and depth images from predetermined viewpoints, from color images and depth images from a plurality of viewpoints of a 3D model of a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kendai Furukawa, Junichi Tanaka, Yuichi Araki
  • Publication number: 20220082978
    Abstract: A feeder includes a body, a mount portion disposed in the body to support from below part of recording media stacked thereon, a lift that raises the mount portion, a support portion connected to the body to support from below another part of the recording media while the mount portion is raised, the support portion being located higher than a position of a mount surface of the mount portion while the recording media are stacked on the mount portion, a blowing portion that blows air between the recording media stacked on the mount portion, and a transport portion that transports the recording media stacked on the mount portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shoichi MAEDA, Masahito NIWA, Yuichi ARAKI, Yoshiki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220081236
    Abstract: A paper feeding apparatus includes: a paper feeder configured to feed out the uppermost paper included in a paper bundle; a blower configured to blow gas to a lateral side of the paper bundle; and a processor configured to reduce an amount of the gas blown to the lateral side when a predetermined specific condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Shoichi MAEDA, Masahito NIWA, Yuichi ARAKI
  • Publication number: 20220081232
    Abstract: A sheet-shaped-medium feeder includes a housing, a mount portion that is disposed to be vertically movable in the housing and that receives sheet-shaped media, a lift that includes line members to vertically raise or lower the mount portion by hanging the mount portion with the line members, and a discharger that transports the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion. The mount portion is changeable to a long mount portion capable of receiving long sheet-shaped media by extending, further upstream in a transportation direction of the sheet-shaped media, an upstream end portion of the mount portion in the transportation direction of the sheet-shaped media. The lift has the line members attached at a portion of the long mount portion corresponding to an unchanged portion of the mount portion, and at a portion of the long mount portion corresponding to an extended portion of the mount portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shoichi MAEDA, Masahito NIWA, Teruki NAGANUMA, Yuichi ARAKI, Yoshiki KIMURA, Yohei ONOUE
  • Publication number: 20220081237
    Abstract: A sheet-shaped-medium feeder includes a housing, a mount portion that is disposed to be vertically movable in the housing and that receives sheet-shaped media, a lift that vertically raises or lowers the mount portion, a discharger that transports the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion in order from an upper one of the sheet-shaped media, and first air outlets that blow air to the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion at left and right edges in a feed width of the sheet-shaped media. The mount portion is changeable to a long mount portion capable of receiving long sheet-shaped media by extending an end portion of the mount portion upstream from an unchanged position in a transportation direction of the sheet-shaped media, the end portion corresponding to an upstream end portion in the transportation direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shoichi MAEDA, Teruki NAGANUMA, Masahito NIWA, Yuichi ARAKI, Yoshiki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220084282
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device, an image generation method, and an image processing method that can be adapted to real-time processing while reducing the amount of data. The image processing device generates a first packing image obtained by packing in one frame a first object image in which an object faces a first direction and a second object image in which the object faces a second direction different from the first direction among a plurality of images in which the object is imaged in different directions in such a way that a resolution of the first object image is higher than a resolution of the second object image, and further generates a second packing image obtained by packing in one frame a third object image in which the object faces a third direction and a fourth object image in which the object faces a fourth direction among the plurality of images in such a way that a resolution of the third object image is higher than a resolution of the fourth object image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi ARAKI