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公开(公告)号:US11503167B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-15
申请号:US17563381
申请日:2021-12-28
发明人: Rui Hamabe , Kazunori Tanaka , Kanako Morimoto , Takuya Miyamoto , Koji Sato
摘要: The image processing apparatus includes: an abnormality detection unit configured to detect one or more abnormalities included in a target image and an abnormality exclusion processing unit configured to exclude a specific abnormality from the detected one or more abnormalities. In a case in which a detection area of a certain abnormality among the detected one or more abnormalities and a detection area of another abnormality overlap with each other and a type of the certain abnormality and a type of the another abnormality are different from each other, when brightness information of one of the certain abnormality and the another abnormality satisfies a specific condition, the abnormality exclusion processing unit excludes the one of the certain abnormality and the another abnormality from the detected one or more abnormalities.
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公开(公告)号:US20220210293A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-30
申请号:US17558250
申请日:2021-12-21
发明人: Koji Sato , Kazunori Tanaka , Takuya Miyamoto , Kanako Morimoto , Rui Hamabe
摘要: A processor identifies a specific part composed of a plurality of significant pixels in a mixed-color test image. Furthermore, the processor identifies a color vector. The color vector represents a vector in a color space from one of a color of the specific part in the mixed-color test image and a color of a reference area including a periphery of the specific part to the other. Furthermore, the processor determines which of a plurality of image creating portions of an image forming device corresponding to a plurality of developing colors, is a cause of an image defect, based on the color vector identified from the mixed-color test image.
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公开(公告)号:US20220207703A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-30
申请号:US17558411
申请日:2021-12-21
发明人: Rui Hamabe , Kazunori Tanaka , Takuya Miyamoto , Kanako Morimoto , Koji Sato
IPC分类号: G06T7/00 , G06T7/90 , G06T7/13 , G06V10/22 , G06V10/24 , G06V10/36 , G06V10/44 , G06V10/56 , G06V10/98 , G03G15/01 , G03G15/00
摘要: A processor determines a cause of an image defect based on a test image that is obtained through an image reading process performed on an output sheet output from an image forming device. The processor extracts a vertical stripe part extending along a sub scanning direction in the test image. Furthermore, the processor determines which of predetermined two types of cause candidates is a cause of the vertical stripe part, based on a distribution of a pixel value sequence along a main scanning direction that crosses the sub scanning direction, in a target part including the vertical stripe part in the test image.
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公开(公告)号:US11756181B2
公开(公告)日:2023-09-12
申请号:US17558496
申请日:2021-12-21
发明人: Kanako Morimoto , Kazunori Tanaka , Koji Sato , Takuya Miyamoto , Rui Hamabe
CPC分类号: G06T7/0004 , G06K15/027 , G06T2207/10024 , G06T2207/30144
摘要: A processor determines an image defect in a test image obtained through an image reading process performed on an output sheet output by an image forming apparatus. The processor derives a vertical data string that is composed of data about horizontal representative values serving as representative values of a plurality of pixel values in each line in a horizontal direction in the test image. Moreover, the processor determines the presence or absence of at least one periodicity set in advance in the vertical data string by performing frequency analysis on the vertical data string. Furthermore, the processor determines the occurrence or non-occurrence and the cause of periodic density unevenness serving as a type of the image defect according to the determination result on the periodicity.
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公开(公告)号:US11483452B2
公开(公告)日:2022-10-25
申请号:US17558250
申请日:2021-12-21
发明人: Koji Sato , Kazunori Tanaka , Takuya Miyamoto , Kanako Morimoto , Rui Hamabe
摘要: A processor identifies a specific part composed of a plurality of significant pixels in a mixed-color test image. Furthermore, the processor identifies a color vector. The color vector represents a vector in a color space from one of a color of the specific part in the mixed-color test image and a color of a reference area including a periphery of the specific part to the other. Furthermore, the processor determines which of a plurality of image creating portions of an image forming device corresponding to a plurality of developing colors, is a cause of an image defect, based on the color vector identified from the mixed-color test image.
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公开(公告)号:US20220207704A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-30
申请号:US17558461
申请日:2021-12-21
发明人: Kanako Morimoto , Kazunori Tanaka , Koji Sato , Takuya Miyamoto , Rui Hamabe
摘要: A processor identifies an original drawing part that is originally drawn in a test image. Furthermore, the processor identifies a noise point in the test image. Furthermore, the processor determines which of predetermined two types of cause candidates is a cause of the noise point by determining a degree of overlapping between the original drawing part and the noise point. The two types of cause candidates are: waste toner dropping in which waste toner that has adhered to a transfer body that transfers a toner image to a sheet, is transferred to the sheet in the image forming device; and carrier developing in which magnetic carrier that has been mixed with toner is transferred to a sheet.
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公开(公告)号:US20220207701A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-30
申请号:US17558343
申请日:2021-12-21
发明人: Kanako Morimoto , Kazunori Tanaka , Koji Sato , Takuya Miyamoto , Rui Hamabe
摘要: A processor determines an image defect in a test image obtained through an image reading process performed on an output sheet output by an image forming apparatus. The processor creates an image to be processed including a horizontal line, extending in a horizontal direction, extracted from the test image. Furthermore, the processor determines the presence or absence of at least one periodicity set in advance in a vertical direction in the image to be processed and determines the cause of the horizontal line according to the determination result on the periodicity.
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公开(公告)号:US09927766B2
公开(公告)日:2018-03-27
申请号:US15648952
申请日:2017-07-13
发明人: Takuya Miyamoto
IPC分类号: G03G21/18
CPC分类号: G03G21/1803 , G03G21/08
摘要: A removable unit has a first unit removably attached to an image forming apparatus, a second unit held by being removably attached to the first unit, and a cover member. The cover member is supported pivotably on the first unit, and can be located selectively either in a first position overlapping, or a second position not overlapping, the attachment/removal path of the second unit. When the cover member pivots from the first position to a third position pivoted through a predetermined angle from the first position toward the second position, from the first unit a reaction force acts on the cover member to restrict its pivoting toward the second position and, when the cover member pivots from the second position to the third position, from the first unit a reaction force acts on the cover member to restrict its pivoting toward the first position.
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公开(公告)号:US09921545B2
公开(公告)日:2018-03-20
申请号:US15419324
申请日:2017-01-30
发明人: Takuya Miyamoto
IPC分类号: G03G21/18
CPC分类号: G03G21/1842 , G03G21/1846 , G03G21/1853
摘要: A detachable unit has a unit housing and a grip portion thereon. The detachable unit is insertable and removal along an insertion/removal trajectory formed inside the body of an image forming apparatus and forming a depression angle as seen from the removal direction. The grip portion has a pressed face facing the upstream side of the unit housing in its removal direction and substantially perpendicular to the insertion/removal trajectory, a first side extending along the lower-end edge of the pressed face, and a second side extending along the upper-end edge of the pressed face. No face extending on the upstream side of the unit housing in the removal direction connects to the first side, and a finger insertion portion into which a finger can be inserted from the side of the first side along the pressed face is formed in the first side.
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公开(公告)号:US11715192B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-01
申请号:US17558461
申请日:2021-12-21
发明人: Kanako Morimoto , Kazunori Tanaka , Koji Sato , Takuya Miyamoto , Rui Hamabe
CPC分类号: G06T7/0004 , G06K15/027 , G06K15/14 , G06T7/13 , G06T7/90 , G06V10/225 , G06T2207/10024 , G06T2207/30144
摘要: A processor identifies an original drawing part that is originally drawn in a test image. Furthermore, the processor identifies a noise point in the test image. Furthermore, the processor determines which of predetermined two types of cause candidates is a cause of the noise point by determining a degree of overlapping between the original drawing part and the noise point. The two types of cause candidates are: waste toner dropping in which waste toner that has adhered to a transfer body that transfers a toner image to a sheet, is transferred to the sheet in the image forming device; and carrier developing in which magnetic carrier that has been mixed with toner is transferred to a sheet.
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