Patents Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 11985418
    Abstract: An imaging system, having an imaging apparatus and a moving apparatus that moves with the imaging apparatus mounted thereon, includes: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a movable time, which is a time when the moving apparatus is capable of moving, based on a residual battery capacity of a first power supply that supplies power to the moving apparatus; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire an imageable time, which is a time when the imaging apparatus is capable of imaging, based on a residual battery capacity of a second power supply that supplies power to the imaging apparatus; and a control unit configured to control whether power is fed from the second power supply to the moving apparatus or power is fed from the first power supply to the imaging apparatus, based on at least one of the movable time and the imageable time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuma Yokoyama, Koji Nishimori
  • Patent number: 11985866
    Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus includes an element substrate including an effective pixel region having a plurality of effective pixels on one principal surface side of a first substrate, and a peripheral region positioned around the effective pixel region, a second substrate, and a first and a second bonding member configured to bond the both substrates. The second bonding member includes a material different from that of the first bonding member. In a planar view with respect to the one principal surface, the second substrate is disposed within the element substrate. The first bonding member is provided between the peripheral region and the second substrate. The second bonding member is provided between the effective pixel region and the second substrate. In a planar view with respect to the one principal surface, at least a part of an end portion of the second substrate is positioned on the first bonding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidemasa Oshige
  • Patent number: 11985426
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided that is capable of continuing to capture an object intended as a subject by a user before a zoom operation is started, even in a case where the subject selection based on line-of-sight detection is terminated after the zoom operation has started. The electronic apparatus comprising a line-of-sight detecting unit configured to detect a line-of-sight of a user, a zoom operating member configured to perform a zoom operation, a selecting unit configured to select a subject from an image based on the line-of-sight's position, and a control unit configured to perform control so that when the zoom operation is started by the zoom operating member, subject selection based on the line-of-sight's position is stopped without stopping line-of-sight detection performed by the line-of-sight detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuko Imai, Kiyoto Ueda
  • Patent number: 11985602
    Abstract: When a handover is performed, Wi-Fi setting is automatically changed from an inactive state to an active state. In a case where no user operation is performed within a prescribed time period, the Wi-Fi setting is returned from the active state to the inactive state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Sekine
  • Patent number: 11981129
    Abstract: An element substrate comprises a plurality of stages of shift registers that inputs and holds a serial data signal; a latch circuit that latches the serial data held by the shift registers; a decoder circuit that inputs an output of the latch circuit and outputs a selection signal for selecting a block of the print elements or the memory elements; and a mask circuit that masks the output of the selection signal for selecting the block of the memory elements from the decoder circuit in accordance with an input bit data signal. The block of the print elements or the memory elements includes a plurality of print elements or memory elements in which one element is selected in each of the plurality of groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Soichiro Nagamochi, Toshio Negishi, Yasuhiro Soeda
  • Patent number: 11985412
    Abstract: A detachable device having an arithmetic apparatus and capable of attaching/detaching to/from an electric device obtains an instruction for a reconfiguration from the electric device. The detachable device, prior to the reconfiguration being executed, saves, to a storage unit, state information that represents a state of an interface of the arithmetic apparatus that is for receiving a signal from the electric device; and sets the state of the interface using the state information after a predetermined standby time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shoko Naito
  • Patent number: 11985471
    Abstract: A communication apparatus capable of easily switching communication between the communication apparatus and an external reproduction device. A communication section performs wireless communication with an earphone that is capable of automatically switching audio data transmitted from a plurality of communication apparatuses including the communication apparatus and reproducing the audio data. A state detection section detects whether or not the communication apparatus is used by a user. In a state in which the communication apparatus has not been used, when it is detected that the communication apparatus is used, the communication unit transmits a reproduction switching signal for switching the earphone to a state for reproducing audio data transmitted from the communication apparatus to the earphone before transmitting the audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Fumihiro Kajimura
  • Patent number: 11982968
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a transfer portion, first and second correcting portions including first and second roller pairs and first and second detectors, respectively. The first and second correcting portions correct a sheet position in a widthwise direction. A controller, in a case the sheet is fed to the transfer portion via the first correcting portion from the second correcting portion, causes the first correcting portion to correct the sheet position to a first position to be aligned with the image transferred in the transfer position and causes the second correcting portion to correct the sheet position to a second position. When the sheet has been moved to a reference position by the second roller pair, the second position is a position offset from the reference position toward an opposite side to a direction where the sheet position detected by the first detector is shifted from the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kengo Sato
  • Patent number: 11981133
    Abstract: A substrate includes a layer including a base material and an intermediate layer including a wiring layer, an element formed on a side of the intermediate layer, and configured to generate energy for discharging a liquid, an insulating layer covering the element and the layer against a liquid chamber, and a conductive layer formed on the insulating layer so as to cover the element against the liquid chamber. The substrate further includes an electric connecting portion configured to electrically connect the wiring layer and the element, a non-insulated portion formed on a side of the intermediate layer and configured to be covered by the insulating layer against the liquid chamber, and an opening portion formed in the insulating layer at a position. The non-insulated portion is connected to the conductive layer via the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Iwahashi, Takeru Yasuda, Yuzuru Ishida
  • Patent number: 11981131
    Abstract: A print element substrate comprises print elements generating thermal energy for ejecting liquid; and a temperature detection element circuit including temperature detection elements provided corresponding to each of the print elements, and reading temperature information by selectively energizing one of the temperature detection elements, wherein the temperature detection element circuit includes: a signal processing portion outputting a selection signal having a second voltage amplitude larger than a first voltage amplitude, based on an input signal having the first voltage amplitude; a selection switch provided for each of the plurality of temperature detection elements, selecting the temperature detection element; and a first read switch provided for each of the plurality of temperature detection elements, reading a voltage of a terminal of one of the temperature detection element selected by the selection switch, and wherein the selection switch and the first read switch are driven by using the selection
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo Kanno, Nobuyuki Hirayama
  • Patent number: 11981614
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon is produced by applying mechanical energy to a metal body containing stainless steel by solid-solid contact so that a contact pressure per unit area is 30 kPa or more, in the presence of a gas containing carbon dioxide and a hydrogen source, thereby adding hydrogen to carbon dioxide. Further, a hydrocarbon is produced by providing a reaction vessel for applying mechanical energy to a metal body by solid-solid contact in the presence of a gas containing carbon dioxide and a hydrogen source, a gas introduction unit for introducing the gas containing carbon dioxide to the reaction vessel, a hydrogen source introduction unit for introducing the hydrogen source to the reaction vessel, and a gas discharge unit for discharging a gas containing the hydrocarbon produced in the reaction vessel, and adding hydrogen to the carbon dioxide in the reaction vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Miki Itoh, Hironao Sajiki, Yoshinari Sawama, Miki Niikawa, Kwihwan Park
  • Patent number: 11980489
    Abstract: A mechanism that enhances rigidity of a casing of a radiation imaging apparatus while effectively using limited space inside the casing is provided. The rectangular casing that contains a radiation detecting panel, the radiation detecting panel detecting incident radiation, includes a front cover including an incident surface on which the radiation is incident, and a rear cover disposed in a manner to be opposite to the front cover. The rear cover includes one or more recess portions and a rib, at least one end of the rib being connected to a recess portion of the one or more recess portions, at a bottom surface opposite to the incident surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masataka Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11981759
    Abstract: A photocurable composition can comprise a polymerizable material and at least one photoinitiator, wherein the polymerizable material comprises a multi-functional vinylbenzene monomer in an amount of at least 30 wt % based on the total weight of the polymerizable material and the at least one photoinitiator includes an oxime ester compound. The photocurable composition can be adapted that a UV shrinkage after forming a photo-cured layer at 23° C. is not greater than 4.0%; and that a thermal shrinkage after conducting a baking treatment of the photo-cured layer at 350° C. is not greater than 3.5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fen Wan, Weijun Liu, Timothy Brian Stachowiak
  • Patent number: 11980490
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus removes a pattern caused by a grid from a radiation image captured by using a scattered ray removal grid. The image processing apparatus includes a grid pattern removal unit, a filtering unit, and a distortion correction unit. The grid pattern removal unit is configured to generate a grid pattern removal image by removing a grid pattern from the radiation image. The filtering unit is configured to extract a frequency component lower than a frequency of the grid pattern from the radiation image. The distortion correction unit is configured to replace a low-frequency component included in the grid pattern removal image with a frequency component obtained by the filtering unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoto Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11981521
    Abstract: A feeding apparatus includes a roll support unit configured to rotatably support a roll sheet which is a sheet wound into a roll form, a drive unit configured to rotate the roll sheet in a first rotation direction for feeding the sheet into a conveyance path and a second rotation direction, an abutment portion provided so as to be capable of abutting against an outer peripheral surface of the roll sheet at a first position, and a rotation member configured to abut against the outer peripheral surface at a second position. The rotation member at the second position does not rotate with the roll sheet when the roll sheet is rotated in the first rotation direction, and rotates with the roll sheet when the roll sheet is rotated in the second rotation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Shimamura, Ryo Harigae
  • Patent number: 11985413
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus that enables a user to easily recognize continuous shooting timing. The electronic apparatus controls to light an item during performing an exposure processing, accept an instruction for performing a continuous shooting, and control not to start to light the item when the exposure processing starts before a lapse of a predetermined lighting-off period from lighting off the item last time, while accepting the instruction for performing the continuous shooting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Seiji Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11981137
    Abstract: A method for producing a liquid-ejection head substrate includes forming a protective film covering the surface of a portion of a cavitation resistant film provided at a position where the heating resistor is covered with a metallic material containing at least one of titanium, tungsten, and titanium tungsten and etching the substrate after forming the protective film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuaki Shibata
  • Patent number: 11981132
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a number of nozzle rows in a first area on a side of one end of a first substrate closest to one end of a print head is set to be lower than a number of nozzle rows on a central side of the print head relative to the first area, and energy for driving the element on the first substrate is set to be larger than energy for driving the element on a second substrate on the central side of the print head relative to the first substrate to set a dot to be formed on the recording medium by ink discharged from a nozzle in the first area to be larger than a dot to be formed on the recording medium by ink discharged from a nozzle in the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoshi Kitai
  • Patent number: D1027024
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Hayashi, Daijiro Nagasaki
  • Patent number: D1027025
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Daijiro Nagasaki