Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Nec Corporation

National University Coporation Tottori University

Koichi Kudo

Jun Yamane

Tsuyoshi Nagasu

Satoshi Kaneko

Makoto Aoki

Takashi Hashimoto

Hideyuki Takayama

Makoto Nakura

Shingo Takai

Naoto Ueda

Masahiro Mizuno

Tomoaki Hayashi

Masayuki Sunaoshi

Satoshi Ueda

Shinji Kato

Shingo Suzuki

Shuji Hirai

Toshihiro Okamoto

Tetsuo Watanabe

Takuro Kamiya

Akira Kobashi

Katsuya Kawagoe

Nobuyuki Baba

Junya Takigawa

Mitsunobu Gohda

Sumiaki Aoki

Takeshi Ogawa

Hiromichi Matsuda

Hitoshi Ishibashi

Katsuaki Miyawaki

Toshiharu Murai

Hajime Kawasaki

Atsuyuki Oyamada

Takuroh Kamiya

Mikio Kamoshita

Hanako Bando

Koji Masuda

Ryuuichi Mimbu

Yoshihiro Sakai

Yasuhiro Nihei

Toshiyuki Andoh

Hiroaki Takagi

Fumihito Masubuchi

Atsushi Takaura

Takeshi Ueda

Takahisa Koike

Yasufumi Yamada

Minoru Takahashi

Natsumi Matsue

Hideaki Kibune

Yuichi Hirose

Daisuke Maeda

Mitsuru Takahashi

Hiroyoshi Funato

Takashi Hodoshima

Taku Amada

Yoshinobu Takeyama

Hiroshi Katayama

Ken Oikawa

Masuyoshi Yachida

Masaru Yamagishi

Tamon Sadasue

Masahiko Kato

Kenichi Shimizu

Masahiro Ashikawa

Aiko Ohtsuka

Tatsuya Watahiki

Asato Tamura

Katsuhiro Tobita

Ichiro Maeda

Kazuya Nagao

Taku Kitahara

Kento Hosaka

Tsubasa Tamura

Takuro Kamiyai

Takuhei Minami

Takayoshi Yokota

Mototsugu Muroi

A traveling body includes a range sensor and circuitry. The range sensor is disposed on a front face of the traveling body in a traveling direction in which the traveling body travels on a road surface and disposed obliquely downward at an inclination angle relative to the road surface. The circuitry determines presence of a continuous obstacle in a case where measurement results of a plurality of planes scanned by the range sensor include a plurality of feature values indicating unevenness relative to the road surface similar to each other. The circuitry generates an obstacle map of a front region of the traveling body not scanned by the range sensor, based on sequential feature information indicating that a predetermined number of feature values indicating the unevenness are sequentially present; and controls the traveling body to travel on the road surface based on the obstacle map.

Traveling body which detects obstacles and generates an obstacle map

A liquid ejection apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of liquid ejection head units that are configured to eject liquid onto a conveyed object being conveyed; a detection unit that is provided with respect to each liquid ejection head unit of the plurality of liquid ejection head units and is configured to output a detection result indicating at least one of a position, a moving speed, and an amount of movement of the conveyed object with respect to a conveying direction of the conveyed object; and a control unit configured to control each liquid ejection head unit among the plurality of liquid ejection head units to eject liquid at a timing based on a plurality of the detection results of a plurality of the detection units.

Liquid ejection apparatus, liquid ejection system, and liquid ejection method

An information processing system including a circuitry configured to detect first identification information used to identify a job, generate second identification information associated with the first identification information, and create a slip on which the first identification information and the second identification information are displayed.

Information processing system and slip creation method

A scheduling system includes first circuitry and second circuitry. The first circuitry stores, in a memory, information on a plurality of tasks to be executed by at least one mobile device. The information on the plurality of tasks includes information on an estimated amount of battery consumption of the at least one mobile device in executing each of the plurality of tasks. The second circuitry receives designation of the plurality of tasks to be executed by the at least one mobile device. The second circuitry further causes a display to display a screen having a schedule in which the plurality of tasks is arranged for the at least one mobile device based on the information on the estimated amount of battery consumption.

Task execution system for autonomous robot

A liquid ejection apparatus includes a plurality of liquid ejection head units that eject liquid onto a conveyed object at different positions along a conveying path; a first support member and a second support member that are respectively provided at an upstream side and a downstream side of a landing position of liquid ejected by a corresponding liquid ejection head unit; a first detection unit that is installed between the first support member and the second support member and is configured to detect a position of the conveyed object in a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the conveyed object; a second detection unit that is installed upstream of the first detection unit; and a movement control unit that moves each liquid ejection head unit based on a plurality of detection results output by the first detection unit and/or the second detection unit.

A sheet conveying device, which is incorporated in an image forming apparatus, includes a first detector to detect an angle deviation of a recording medium to a sheet conveying direction, a second detector to detect a lateral shift of the recording medium to a width direction, a third detector to detect at least one of the angle deviation and the lateral shift after correction of the angle deviation detected by the first detector and the lateral shift detected by the second detector, and a rotary body to perform a primary movement by (1) rotating in the sheet conveying direction and returning to a reference position and by (2) moving in the width direction and returning to the reference position, and a secondary movement by performing at least one of (1) and (2) after the primary movement.

Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus incorporating the sheet conveying device

A method includes acquiring starting position information of moving bodies; acquiring destination position information of movement destinations; acquiring path information indicating paths on which the moving bodies can move; calculating, for each moving body, a minimum movement amount required for the moving body to move on a path from the starting position to each movement destination, based on the starting position information, the destination position information, and the path information; allocating a movement destination not allocated to any moving body to a moving body that has a minimum movement amount being the smallest of the minimum movement amounts and that has no allocation of any movement destination; further allocating, when there is a movement destination not allocated to the moving body on a movement route, the not-allocated movement destination to the allocated moving body; and determining movement routes of the moving bodies based on the allocation.

Movement route determination method and program

A liquid ejection apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of liquid ejection head units that are configured to eject liquid onto a conveyed object being conveyed; a detection unit that is provided with respect to each liquid ejection head unit of the plurality of liquid ejection head units and is configured to output a detection result indicating at least one of a position, a moving speed, and an amount of movement of the conveyed object with respect to a conveying direction of the conveyed object; and a control unit configured to control the each liquid ejection head unit of the plurality of liquid ejection head units to eject liquid at a timing based on a plurality of the detection results of a plurality of the detection units.

A conveyance device includes a conveyor to convey a conveyed object, a head unit to perform an operation on the conveyed object being conveyed at a first conveyance speed, a sensor to acquire data of the conveyed object, a gauge to output a measured travel amount of the conveyed object, and a processor. The processor includes a calculator to calculate a detection result including at least one of a position, a speed of travel, and a calculated travel amount of the conveyed object based on the data acquired by the sensor; and an adjusting unit to adjust a timing of acquisition of the data acquired while the conveyed object is conveyed at the first conveyance speed, based on the detection result and the measured travel amount of the conveyed object being conveyed at a second conveyance speed lower than the first conveyance speed.

Conveyance device, conveyance system, and head unit control method

A conveyed object detector includes first and second image obtaining units disposed at first and second positions different in a conveyance direction, to image a conveyed object to obtain first and second image data; respectively; a recognition unit to recognize an object adhering to the first and second image obtaining units based on imaging at the first and second positions to generate first and second stain data, respectively; a removal unit to remove the first and second stain data from the first and second image data, respectively; and a calculator to generate at least one of a position, a movement amount, and a moving speed of the conveyed object based on first and second corrected image data. Each of the first and second image obtaining units include a light source, an area sensor, and an optical element disposed between the area sensor and the conveyed object.

Conveyed object detector, conveyance device, device including movable head, conveyed object detecting method, and non-transitory recording medium storing program of same

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Koichi Kudo