Patents by Inventor Yutaka Kiuchi

Yutaka Kiuchi 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: 11204563
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer unit that faces an image holding unit and is configured to come into contact with and separate from the image holding unit with a continuous form paper continuous in a transport direction interposed between the transfer unit and the image holding unit and to transfer an image held by the image holding unit onto the continuous form paper; a displacement unit that displaces the continuous form paper to a position closer to the image holding unit when the transfer unit separates from the image holding unit; and a contact portion that contacts the continuous form paper from a downstream side in a displacement direction before the continuous form paper displaced by the displacement unit contacts the image holding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Yutaka Kiuchi, Tokuya Sakamoto, Tetsuro Kodera, Masayo Higashimura
  • Patent number: 10946668
    Abstract: A production system acquires a plan of production of plural types of products to be produced through sequential attachment of prints, determines an order of production of the prints to be attached to the plural types of products, respectively, and produces the prints in the determined production order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kiuchi, Hajime Aikyo, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10852244
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, an image processing method and a recording medium capable of detecting a plurality of breaks in a coating material and an inclined break of the coating material are provided. The image processing apparatus includes a grouping unit for extracting coating areas representing a coating material from an input image acquired by imaging an inspection object linearly coated with the coating material and grouping the coating areas for each sequence of linear parts, a calculation unit for calculating a line width in an orthogonal direction of a linear part for each of the linear parts in a plurality of portions of the coating area including end portions of the linear parts, a break detecting unit for detecting a break in the coating material based on the calculated line widths, and an output unit for outputting an indication representing occurrence of the break when the break is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Kiuchi, Yukihiro Komatsu
  • Patent number: 10800181
    Abstract: A production system includes: a production unit that produces prints with which products are to be tagged; an information acquisition unit that acquires defect information that is information on defect of tagged products that are products tagged with prints; and a changing unit that changes conditions of production of prints in the production unit based on the defect information acquired by the information acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kiuchi, Hajime Aikyo, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20200301305
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer unit that faces an image holding unit and is configured to come into contact with and separate from the image holding unit with a continuous form paper continuous in a transport direction interposed between the transfer unit and the image holding unit and to transfer an image held by the image holding unit onto the continuous form paper; a displacement unit that displaces the continuous form paper to a position closer to the image holding unit when the transfer unit separates from the image holding unit; and a contact portion that contacts the continuous form paper from a downstream side in a displacement direction before the continuous form paper displaced by the displacement unit contacts the image holding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro MATSUMOTO, Yutaka KIUCHI, Tokuya SAKAMOTO, Tetsuro KODERA, Masayo HIGASHIMURA
  • Patent number: 10755385
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an image processing apparatus and a recording medium which enable easy setting of a degree of compression such that it is in a range in which there is substantially hardly any influence on an inspection result when the degree of compression is set. First information including a first processing result acquired when an image measurement processing is executed on raw image data and at least a part of first state information representing a state in the execution process of the image measurement processing and second information including a second processing result acquired when the image measurement processing is executed on restored image data that is acquired by compressing the raw image data and then restoring compressed image data and information of the same type as that of the information included in the first information from the second state information are output in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Kiuchi, Tsunehiko Araki
  • Patent number: 10708458
    Abstract: An image forming system includes a first image forming apparatus, a second image forming apparatus, a determining unit, and a display unit. The first image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit that forms an image with a first developer of a process color. The second image forming apparatus includes a second image forming unit that includes a second developer and that forms an image with the second developer. The second developer has characteristics different from characteristics of the first developer on a medium. The determining unit determines, on the basis of image formation conditions designated by a user, a printing order in which an image formed with the first developer and an image formed with a second developer are printed on one medium, and determines a sequence in which the image forming apparatuses perform image formation on the basis of the determined printing order. The display unit displays the sequence determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukiko Miyakoshi, Yutaka Kiuchi, Tomoshi Hara
  • Patent number: 10657626
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an image processing apparatus, an image processing system, and recording medium capable of achieving both reduction of the amount of data and securement of reproducibility. An image processing apparatus generates compressed image data by compressing raw image data acquired by imaging an object into a JPEG format, restores the compressed image data to restored image data of a bmp format, and then acquires a first result by executing an image measurement processing on the restored image data. The image processing apparatus stores the compressed image data and the first result in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Kiuchi, Tsunehiko Araki
  • Publication number: 20200047516
    Abstract: A production system acquires a plan of production of plural types of products to he produced through sequential attachment of prints, determines an order of production of the prints to be attached to the plural types of products, respectively, and produces the prints in the determined production order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka KIUCHI, Hajime AIKYO, Mitsuhiro MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190297209
    Abstract: An image forming system includes a first image forming apparatus, a second image forming apparatus, a determining unit, and a display unit. The first image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit that forms an image with a first developer of a process color. The second image forming apparatus includes a second image forming unit that includes a second developer and that forms an image with the second developer. The second developer has characteristics different from characteristics of the first developer on a medium. The determining unit determines, on the basis of image formation conditions designated by a user, a printing order in which an image formed with the first developer and an image formed with a second developer are printed on one medium, and determines a sequence in which the image forming apparatuses perform image formation on the basis of the determined printing order. The display unit displays the sequence determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukiko MIYAKOSHI, Yutaka KIUCHI, Tomoshi HARA
  • Publication number: 20190294076
    Abstract: An image forming system includes a first image forming apparatus that includes a first imaging section used to form an image using a colored first developer, a second image forming apparatus that includes a second imaging section used to form the image using a second developer, which a color of the first developer is capable of penetrating, in a case of being laminated on the first developer on a medium, and a third imaging section used to form the image using a third developer which is capable of shading the color of the first developer in a case of being laminated on the first developer on the medium, and an information processing section that transmits information of a print image to the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus, the information processing section transmitting the information of the print image to the respective imaging sections such that, with respect to a visual recognition direction of the image on the medium, the image formed using the second developer is lam
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka KIUCHI, Yukiko MIYAKOSHI, Tomoshi HARA
  • Publication number: 20190291459
    Abstract: A production system includes: a production unit that produces prints with which products are to be tagged; an information acquisition unit that acquires defect information that is information on defect of tagged products that are products tagged with prints; and a changing unit that changes conditions of production of prints in the production unit based on the defect information acquired by the information acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka KIUCHI, Hajime AIKYO, Mitsuhiro MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10409195
    Abstract: An image forming system includes a first image forming apparatus that includes a first imaging section used to form an image using a colored first developer, a second image forming apparatus that includes a second imaging section used to form the image using a second developer, which a color of the first developer is capable of penetrating, in a case of being laminated on the first developer on a medium, and a third imaging section used to form the image using a third developer which is capable of shading the color of the first developer in a case of being laminated on the first developer on the medium, and an information processing section that transmits information of a print image to the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus, the information processing section transmitting the information of the print image to the respective imaging sections such that, with respect to a visual recognition direction of the image on the medium, the image formed using the second developer is lam
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kiuchi, Yukiko Miyakoshi, Tomoshi Hara
  • Patent number: 10380463
    Abstract: An image processing device is provided. An image processing device includes: a program executing part that applies parameter groups to an image processing program which searches a search object using an image group with different resolutions created from an input image, acquires a search result for each of the parameter groups, and acquires an image group which is acquired in the course of execution of the image processing program for each parameter group; a synthesis part that creates a synthetic image from each of a plurality of acquired image groups; a display part that displays the plurality of created synthetic images and displays the plurality of acquired search results to overlap the plurality of synthetic images; and a setting part that sets the parameter group corresponding to the synthetic image selected from the plurality of synthetic images displayed on the display part by an operation in the image processing program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Akatsuka, Yutaka Kiuchi, Reiji Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190128818
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, an image processing method and a recording medium capable of detecting a plurality of breaks in a coating material and an inclined break of the coating material are provided. The image processing apparatus includes a grouping unit for extracting coating areas representing a coating material from an input image acquired by imaging an inspection object linearly coated with the coating material and grouping the coating areas for each sequence of linear parts, a calculation unit for calculating a line width in an orthogonal direction of a linear part for each of the linear parts in a plurality of portions of the coating area including end portions of the linear parts, a break detecting unit for detecting a break in the coating material based on the calculated line widths, and an output unit for outputting an indication representing occurrence of the break when the break is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka KIUCHI, Yukihiro KOMATSU
  • Publication number: 20190122340
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an image processing apparatus, an image processing system, and recording medium capable of achieving both reduction of the amount of data and securement of reproducibility. An image processing apparatus generates compressed image data by compressing raw image data acquired by imaging an object into a JPEG format, restores the compressed image data to restored image data of a bmp format, and then acquires a first result by executing an image measurement processing on the restored image data. The image processing apparatus stores the compressed image data and the first result in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka KIUCHI, Tsunehiko ARAKI
  • Publication number: 20190122341
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an image processing apparatus and a recording medium which enable easy setting of a degree of compression such that it is in a range in which there is substantially hardly any influence on an inspection result when the degree of compression is set. First information including a first processing result acquired when an image measurement processing is executed on raw image data and at least a part of first state information representing a state in the execution process of the image measurement processing and second information including a second processing result acquired when the image measurement processing is executed on restored image data that is acquired by compressing the raw image data and then restoring compressed image data and information of the same type as that of the information included in the first information from the second state information are output in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka KIUCHI, Tsunehiko ARAKI
  • Publication number: 20190065914
    Abstract: An image processing device is provided. An image processing device includes: a program executing part that applies parameter groups to an image processing program which searches a search object using an image group with different resolutions created from an input image, acquires a search result for each of the parameter groups, and acquires an image group which is acquired in the course of execution of the image processing program for each parameter group; a synthesis part that creates a synthetic image from each of a plurality of acquired image groups; a display part that displays the plurality of created synthetic images and displays the plurality of acquired search results to overlap the plurality of synthetic images; and a setting part that sets the parameter group corresponding to the synthetic image selected from the plurality of synthetic images displayed on the display part by an operation in the image processing program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki AKATSUKA, Yutaka KIUCHI, Reiji TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10074551
    Abstract: A hypothesis testing position detection apparatus improves robustness against abnormal detection values, and achieves both high accuracy estimation and high-speed estimation processing. An image processing apparatus extracts, from calculated values for a central position of a plane shape, one of the calculated values nearer a provisional center as a candidate for evaluation (testing) performed using a plurality of detection points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Minato, Kosuke Hattori, Yutaka Kiuchi, Yuki Akatsuka
  • Patent number: 9958821
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium, and an applying unit that causes powder included in a liquid mixture to be interposed between the recording medium and the image forming unit by applying the liquid mixture to the recording medium, or to the image forming unit which comes into contact with the recording medium, wherein the recording medium includes an image forming layer, an adhesive layer, and a base layer, and the liquid mixture includes the powder reducing adhesion of the adhesive layer and volatile liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kiuchi, Masayo Higashimura, Kazuhiko Arai