公开(公告)号：US20240285174A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-29

申请号：US18564551

申请日：2022-03-14

Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.

Inventor： Kosuke ANDO ,  Shusaku KON ,  Ryo NAKABAYASHI

IPC: A61B5/0205 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/022 ,  A61B5/024 ,  A61B5/11

CPC classification number: A61B5/0205 ,  A61B5/1126 ,  A61B5/681 ,  A61B5/022 ,  A61B5/02416

Abstract: A photoelectric volume pulse wave sensor includes a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element. Electrodes constituting the light-emitting element or the light-receiving element are surface electrodes. At least one electrode among the electrodes is also used as an electrode that detects body motion.

公开(公告)号：US12073572B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-27

申请号：US17887612

申请日：2022-08-15

Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.

Inventor： Hisashi Wada ,  Tomoaki Takemura ,  Hidekazu Takahashi ,  Ryuta Ogawa ,  Sumiya Nagatsuka ,  Ikki Nakamura

IPC: G06T7/246 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G06T7/33 ,  G06T11/20

CPC classification number: G06T7/33 ,  G06T7/0012 ,  G06T7/246 ,  G06T11/203 ,  G06T2207/30004

Abstract: An image processing device includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor designates, from one frame image of a dynamic image acquired by dynamic imaging of a movement of a locomotorium, a plurality of regions or points on a structure included in the locomotorium, sets an alignment reference based on the designated regions or points, tracks the designated regions or points in a plurality of frame images of the dynamic image, aligns a line segment connecting the regions or the points to each other in the plurality of frame images based on the alignment reference, and causes a display to display the line segment so as to be superimposed on a representative frame image of the dynamic image.

公开(公告)号：US12072657B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-27

申请号：US17733574

申请日：2022-04-29

Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.

Inventor： Hiromitsu Onaka

IPC: G03G15/00

CPC classification number: G03G15/6567

Abstract: To provide an image forming apparatus capable of sufficiently correcting deviation of a recording material by an oscillation operation of a registration roller.
Configuring an image forming apparatus including: a conveyor that conveys a recording material; a transferer that includes a transfer roller that transfers a toner image onto the recording material; a fixer that includes a fixing roller that fixes the toner image formed on the recording material; a deviation detector that detects a position of the recording material in a conveyance intersecting direction; a deviation corrector that is located on an upstream side of the transferer and moves the recording material in the conveyance intersecting direction to correct deviation of the recording material; and a controller that controls a drive amount of the deviation corrector on the basis of a detection result of the deviation detector and the pressure contact force of a nipper nipping the recording material being conveyed.

公开(公告)号：US12059302B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-13

申请号：US17193497

申请日：2021-03-05

Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.

Inventor： Kazushi Ota

IPC: A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/08 ,  G06N3/04 ,  G06N3/08

CPC classification number: A61B8/5207 ,  A61B8/461 ,  A61B8/56 ,  A61B8/565 ,  G06N3/04 ,  G06N3/08 ,  A61B2560/0214

Abstract: Provided is an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including a transceiver that transmits and receives first ultrasound of a low acoustic output and second ultrasound of a high acoustic output, and a first hardware processor that generates the ultrasound image based on a first reception signal acquired by transmitting and receiving the first ultrasound. The first hardware processor includes a learning model formed of a neural network, and generates the ultrasound image based on an output result of the learning model.

公开(公告)号：US20240264559A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-08

申请号：US18641554

申请日：2024-04-22

Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.

Inventor： Kazunari SHIMONO

IPC: G03G15/00 ,  B41J29/38

CPC classification number: G03G15/55 ,  B41J29/38 ,  G03G15/5016

Abstract: An image forming system includes: a sheet feeder; an image former that forms an image on a paper sheet; a conveyor that conveys a paper sheet to a sheet ejection destination; a switcher that switches sheet ejection destinations; a reader that optically reads a paper sheet, and outputs a read image; an abnormal sheet detector that detects an abnormal paper sheet by analyzing the read image; a storage; a display; and a hardware processor that performs: ejection destination switch control to control the switcher to eject an abnormal paper sheet and a succeeding paper sheet to a second ejection destination different from a regular ejection destination; storage control, for each of the abnormal paper sheet and the succeeding paper sheet, to associate sheet information, the read image, and a stacking order with one another, and store them into the storage; and display control to cause the display to display them.

公开(公告)号：US20240251054A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-25

申请号：US18625889

申请日：2024-04-03

Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.

Inventor： Hiroshi ISOKAWA

IPC: H04N1/60 ,  H04N1/00 ,  H04N1/03

CPC classification number: H04N1/6041 ,  H04N1/6036 ,  H04N1/6044 ,  H04N1/00023 ,  H04N1/00034 ,  H04N1/00087 ,  H04N1/03

Abstract: An image forming apparatus performs the following. An imaging range imaged by each of the plurality of imaging sensors includes an overlapping portion between the imaging sensors adjacent in a width direction orthogonal to a conveying direction along the conveying path. A hardware processor performs a calibration operation of a first sensor based on a color measuring result of a predetermined inspection image measured within a standard imaging range of the first sensor among the plurality of imaging sensors, and a standard imaging result within the standard imaging range imaging an inspection image with a same pattern as the inspection image. The hardware processor compares imaging results by the plurality of imaging sensors in the overlapping portions and performs the calibration operation of another sensor different from the first sensor using the standard imaging result as a standard.

公开(公告)号：US12046117B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-23

申请号：US17440516

申请日：2019-12-06

Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.

Inventor： Motohiro Asano

IPC: G08B21/12 ,  G01N33/00 ,  G06V10/25 ,  G06V10/26 ,  G06V10/94 ,  G06V10/98 ,  G06V20/52

CPC classification number: G08B21/12 ,  G01N33/0027 ,  G06V10/25 ,  G06V10/267 ,  G06V10/273 ,  G06V10/945 ,  G06V10/987 ,  G06V20/52

Abstract: A gas detection device, a gas detection method, and a gas detection program according to the present invention detect gas on the basis of an image obtained by imaging a detection target. The gas detection device, the gas detection method, and the gas detection program; generated accumulated data obtained by accumulating a number of times of gas detection in a predetermined unit of accumulation, on the basis of a plurality of images captured at a plurality of times different from each other in a predetermined period; and generate a mask image for suppressing notification of detected gas on the basis of the generated accumulated data.

公开(公告)号：US20240241470A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-18

申请号：US18405499

申请日：2024-01-05

Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.

Inventor： Masahiro KAMIYA ,  Takahiro TSUJIMOTO ,  Takeshi TAMADA

IPC: G03G15/00

CPC classification number: G03G15/5016 ,  G03G15/5062

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a hardware processor that: acquires output information of a recording medium on which an image is formed by an image forming apparatus and recording medium-related information, and determines, based on the output information and the recording medium-related information that is acquired, information on a recording medium that is recommended for use in the image forming apparatus or information on a recording medium that is not recommended for use in the image forming apparatus.

公开(公告)号：US12038709B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-16

申请号：US17523243

申请日：2021-11-10

Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.

Inventor： Katsutoshi Iwai

IPC: B41J15/16 ,  B41J15/00 ,  G03G15/00 ,  G03G21/20

CPC classification number: G03G15/5029 ,  B41J15/005 ,  B41J15/16 ,  B41J15/165 ,  G03G15/70 ,  G03G21/203 ,  G03G15/6529

Abstract: An image formation system includes: an image former that forms an image on a continuous sheet; a slack generator that is arranged upstream of the image former in a sheet conveyance direction and generates slack on the continuous sheet; and a sheet characteristic detector that is arranged upstream of the slack generator in the sheet conveyance direction and detects a sheet characteristic of the continuous sheet.

公开(公告)号：US12032958B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-09

申请号：US17824127

申请日：2022-05-25

Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.

Inventor： Kazuki Harada

IPC: G06F9/00 ,  G06F13/14

CPC classification number: G06F9/00 ,  G06F13/14 ,  G06F2213/0042 ,  H04N2201/0072

Abstract: An image forming device to which an external device is detachably attached, including an interface that is able to attach to the external device, a storage that stores multi-tier architecture software, and a computer that executes the multi-tier architecture software. The multi-tier architecture software includes a lower layer that includes an operating system that manages the external device, an upper layer that includes an application program that accesses the external device via the lower layer, and an intervening abstraction layer that hides implementation of the lower layer from the upper layer. The upper layer includes an access control program that is able to save path information to access the external device to the storage, and relays access from the application program to the external device by accessing the lower layer without going through the abstraction layer and accessing the external device using the path information.