Inventor · Yokohama, JP

Shinji Yamakawa

27Patents
11h-index
40Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 11, 1988 → Oct 17, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5751854A Original-discrimination system for discriminating special document, and image forming apparatus, image processing apparatus and duplicator using the original-discrimination system Electricity 101 Expired
US5892595A Image reading apparatus for correct positioning of color component values of each picture element Electricity 72 Expired
US6272248A Original-discrimination system for discriminating special document, and image forming apparatus, image processing apparatus and duplicator using the original-discrimination system Physics 66 Expired
US5809366A Method and system for calibrating a color copier Electricity 64 Expired
US5465160A Composite image forming apparatus for automatically combining document and image characters Physics 44 Expired
US5444518A Image forming apparatus which adds identification information to recorded images to prevent forgery Electricity 31 Expired
US5333211A Image processing apparatus for preventing occurrence of moire in a reconstructed image Physics 22 Expired
US6014462A Image processing apparatus and method for distinguishing alphanumeric symbols on a white background and those on a mesh pattern and individually processing such image data Electricity 21 Expired
US5862434A Method and apparatus for forming an image on an image transfer medium and a method of forming an image using the image transfer medium Physics 15 Expired
US6965695B2 Method and system for processing character edge area data Electricity 13 Expired
US5801844A Image processing apparatus Electricity 12 Expired
US5204752A Image processing apparatus having shadow composition capability using binary data thinning and thickening circuits and preset thinning and thickening width data Physics 11 Expired
US7085013B2 Image processing apparatus including low-linear-density dot region detection unit, and image forming apparatus including the same Physics 9 Expired
US6655861B2 Image processing apparatus including low-linear-density dot region detection unit, and image forming apparatus including the same Physics 8 Expired
US5206718A Color image processor for creating shadows and masks Electricity 7 Expired
US7663783B2 Image-processing device processing image data by judging a detected and expanded medium-density field as a non-character edge field Electricity 4 Active
US7139100B2 Image-processing device processing image data by judging a detected and expanded medium-density field as a non-character edge field Electricity 3 Expired
US8374432B2 Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product Electricity 2 Active
US8917903B2 Image inspection apparatus, image forming apparatus, image inspection method, and image inspection program Performing Operations; Transporting 2 Active
US8810861B2 Image processing apparatus, image noise detecting method, and computer-readable recording medium which averages pixel values of multiple pixels aligned in the sub-scanning direction Electricity 2 Active
US8055084B2 Image processing device, image compression method, image compression program, and recording medium Electricity 2 Active
US4942542A Image processing computer system optimized to reduce idle time of computer Electricity 2 Expired
US11472907B2 Polymerization catalyst composition, polymer manufacturing method, polymer, rubber composition, and tire Chemistry; Metallurgy 1 Active
US8538086B2 Image inspection apparatus, image inspection method, and computer program product Electricity 1 Active
US10153244B2 Display Device Electricity 0 Active

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