Canon Patents
Canon Inc. manufactures office appliances, including multifunction devices, copying machines, laser printers, and inkjet printers. It also develops imaging systems, such as digital cameras and digital video camcorders, as well as lenses and photographic accessories. Its third-largest product segment is semiconductor lithography equipment.
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Patent number: 11947300Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a cutting apparatus, and a controller. The cutting apparatus includes a conveyance path, a first cutting unit configured to cut, at a cutting position with respect to a conveyance direction of the sheet on the conveyance path, the sheet in a width direction perpendicularly intersecting with the conveyance direction, and a second cutting unit configured to cut, at a cutting position with respect to the width direction, the sheet in the conveyance direction. The controller is configured to control the cutting apparatus such that, in a case where the sheet is cut neither with the first cutting unit nor with the second cutting unit, the sheet is conveyed through the conveyance path with the first cutting unit and the second cutting unit retreated not to contact with the sheet passing through the conveyance path.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Takada, Tadashi Iwakawa, Rin Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11947787Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display a preview on a screen, the preview including a plurality of sheet regions and objects placed on the sheet regions, a reception unit configured to select one or more of the objects placed on the sheet regions in response to a user input and to receive a drag operation, and a move unit configured, in moving a plurality of the objects at once in response to an operation received by the reception unit, to gather the plurality of objects onto a same sheet region without maintaining a positional relation between the objects in a case when a particular condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomoki Shibamori
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Patent number: 11947305Abstract: An apparatus includes a developer container to and from which a replenishment container is attachable and detachable and which includes an accommodating portion and a replenishment port, a transfer portion configured to transfer a developer image on an image bearing member onto a recording material, a supporting tray including a supporting surface configured to support the recording material thereon, and a discharge portion configured to discharge the recording material, onto which the developer image has been transferred, on the supporting surface, wherein the supporting surface has an opening portion opening such that the replenishment port is exposed through the supporting surface, and wherein an opening/closing member configured to be movable between a closed position where the opening/closing member covers the replenishment port and serves as a part of the supporting surface and an open position where the replenishment port is exposed is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomio Noguchi, Masaaki Sato, Kenji Matsuzaka, Koji Fujinaka, Takao Sameshima, Akitoshi Toyota, Yuichiro Inaba, Kenichi Iida
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Patent number: 11947299Abstract: A sheet cassette includes a first trailing edge regulator integrally formed with a cassette frame to regulate a position of a trailing edge of a first sized sheet in a feeding direction, and a second trailing edge regulator integrally formed with the cassette frame to regulate a position of a trailing edge of a sheet of a second size stored in the cassette frame in the feeding direction. A pair of side edge regulation members regulate positions of side edges of the sheet of the first size stored in the cassette frame in the width direction at a first position and regulate positions of side edges of the sheet of the second size stored in the cassette frame in the width direction at a second position.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Toshiki Ishida
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Patent number: 11947285Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a rotatable endless belt, a plurality of stretching rollers including an inner roller and an upstream roller, an outer member, a guiding member, a sheet-like pressing member, and a coating member. The coating member is disposed on the pressing member so as not to contact the belt and is electrically grounded or electrically conducted to the guiding member. The coating member is formed of a material lower in surface resistivity than the pressing member.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryosuke Tsuruga, Manato Kobayashi, Yutaka Kakehi
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Patent number: 11947849Abstract: A server with which a first printing apparatus and a second printing apparatus communicate via a network, includes a reception unit and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives first information from the first printing apparatus and receives second information different from the first information from the second printing apparatus. The transmission unit transmits, to the first printing apparatus, one or a plurality of types of user authentication methods corresponding to the first information for logging in the first printing apparatus, and transmits, to the second printing apparatus, one or a plurality of types of user authentication methods corresponding to the second information for logging in the second printing apparatus that includes at least one type different from the one or plurality of types of user authentication methods corresponding to the first information.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Naoya Kakutani
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Patent number: 11947290Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second rotatable members forming a nip therebetween, a heater disposed in inside of the second rotatable member, a first temperature sensor provided on a center of the heater, a second temperature sensor provided on an end side of the heater. A controller controls a feeding interval in which a trailing edge of a preceding sheet passes through the nip until a leading edge of a subsequent sheet reaches the nip. The controller controls the feeding interval to be a first interval in a case which a feeding speed of the sheet is a first speed and a detected temperature by the second sensor is a first temperature, and to be a second interval shorter than the first interval in a case which the feeding speed is a second speed lower than the first speed and the detected temperature is the first temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Nakamoto, Kazuhiro Doda
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Patent number: 11947948Abstract: An information processing apparatus stores first software and second software, the first software is stored in a first storage medium accessible by a central processing unit and an embedded controller, and the second software is used to restore the first software and stored in a second storage medium accessible by the embedded controller. The information processing apparatus includes an update unit configured to update the second software using the first software depending on a result of a comparison between version information about the first software and version information about the second software, a falsification detection unit configured to detect whether the first software is falsified; and a restoration unit configured to restore the first software using the second software in a case where the falsification detection unit detects that the first software is falsified.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ayuta Kawazu, Nobuhiro Tagashira, Takami Eguchi
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Patent number: 11947847Abstract: By using the present disclosure, for example, a notification of an error that has occurred in a device can be received even in cloud printing. Some embodiments provide a method performed by executing an application using an information processing apparatus that transmits print data to be transferred to a printing apparatus by a server system, the method including transmitting, to the server system, a request to check a processing status of the print data in the printing apparatus, receiving the processing status of the print data from the server system having responded to the request, and displaying the received processing status on a display unit of the information processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Keisuke Morita
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Patent number: 11948026Abstract: Formed is a dither pattern that makes it possible to output an image with excellent dot dispersibility and reduced graininess regardless of controls after quantization processing. To this end, an extended pattern in which multiple divided pixels correspond to each of multiple pixels included in quantization data and one or more of the multiple divided pixels are determined as dot-arrangeable-pixels in which dots can be printed is generated. Thereafter, the thresholds of the dither pattern are set based on the extended pattern in which the dots are arranged to obtain predetermined dispersibility.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junichi Nakagawa, Hirokazu Tanaka, Tsukasa Doi, Mayuko Yamagata, Satoshi Seki
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Patent number: 11948669Abstract: A medical information management apparatus has processing circuitry configured to search medical information in a storage, when accepting a search request of the medical information including a key being an item of information regarding a patient and a value being contents of the key, and extract the medical information matching a search condition as condition-matched medical information; extract the key and the value from the condition-matched medical information, calculate a matching rate being a proportion of the value included in the condition-matched medical information to the entire medical information in the storage, and determine that the value is idiosyncratic information when the matching rate is equal to or less than a threshold set with respect to the key; and determine whether the key of the value determined to include the idiosyncratic information corresponds to an essential key which is essential in terms of a purpose of utilization.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Taisuke Iwamura, Ichirou Maeda, Masato Shibuya, Shouichi Nogawa, Naruaki Koike
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Patent number: 11948091Abstract: There is provided with an image identification apparatus. An extraction unit extracts a feature value of an image from image data using a Neural Network (NN). A processing unit identifies the image based on the feature value extracted by the extraction unit. The NN comprises a plurality of calculation layers connected hierarchically. The NN includes a plurality of sub-neural networks for performing processing of calculation layers after a specific calculation layer. Mutually different data from an output of the specific calculation layer are respectively inputted to the plurality of sub-neural networks.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahisa Yamamoto, Hiroshi Sato
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Patent number: 11948027Abstract: An image forming apparatus that suppresses print position displacement. The image forming apparatus includes a plurality of sheet storage sections configured to store sheets. A sheet storage section to be used is selected out of the plurality of sheet storage sections. An image is formed on a sheet supplied from the selected sheet storage section and the image position is adjusted using adjustment values associated with the selected sheet storage section. When an update action performed by sheet replenishment or sheet replacement is detected for a sheet storage section, the sheet storage section for which the update action has been detected is controlled so as not to be selected by the selection unit until a predetermined time period elapses after detection of the update action.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yukiyoshi Hikichi
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Patent number: 11949842Abstract: In a color management system including a server and an image forming apparatus, the server stores information of a colorimetric sensor and paper information corresponding to the colorimetric sensor, obtains information of a colorimetric sensor mounted in the image forming apparatus, designates paper to use when executing a color adjustment process of the image forming apparatus, and, based on the stored paper information, selects a colorimetric sensor of the image forming apparatus corresponding to the designated paper. The image forming apparatus comprises causes a printer engine to print a chart on the designated paper in accordance with a color adjustment job for executing the color adjustment process, and measures a colorimetric value of the printed chart using the selected colorimetric sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazufumi Kobashi, Satoshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 11948952Abstract: In a solid-state imaging device, a photoelectric conversion unit, a transfer transistor, and at least a part of electric charge holding unit, among pixel constituent elements, are disposed on a first semiconductor substrate. An amplifying transistor, a signal processing circuit other than a reset transistor, and a plurality of common output lines, to which signals are read out from a plurality of pixels, are disposed on a second semiconductor substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuo Yamazaki, Tetsuya Itano, Nobuyuki Endo, Kyouhei Watanabe
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Patent number: 11949822Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of executing near field wireless communication, comprises: a display unit configured to display a screen; an obtaining unit configured to obtain identification information regarding a device from a near field wireless communication tag with use of the near field wireless communication; a selection unit configured, in a case where the obtaining unit obtained the identification information, to select one of first processing for connecting to the device indicated by the identification information and second processing for connecting to the device indicated by the identification information and sending data to the device, based on a type of screen being displayed by the display unit; and a processing unit configured to execute the processing selected by the selection unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shukei Kurihara
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Patent number: 11947280Abstract: A mechanism that enables developer replenishment by a simpler structure and a mechanism that enables more user-friendly developer replenishment are provided. An attachment port to which a developer supply bottle containing a developer stored therein is detachably attachable is disposed in an interior of an image forming apparatus. The developer supply bottle can be attached when the cover is in an open state. According to this image forming apparatus, when the developer supply bottle is attached to the attachment port, the developer inside the developer supply bottle moves into a developer housing chamber by its own weight.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Funatani, Masatake Tanaka, Kentaro Yamawaki, Kenichi Iida, Shinsuke Kobayashi, Kensuke Umeda, Takanori Watanabe, Ai Suzuki
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Patent number: 11949833Abstract: An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to accurately derive an inclination of a line image sensor. One embodiment of the present invention is an image reading apparatus including: a line image sensor in which reading elements for reading an image are arrayed in a predetermined direction; a first derivation unit configured to, based on read data acquired by reading a chart on which a plurality of dot patterns is printed with the line image sensor, derive coordinates of each of the plurality of dot patterns; a second derivation unit configured to derive an inclination angle of the line image sensor based on the coordinates derived by the first derivation unit; and a first calculation unit configured to calculate a first correction value for correcting the inclination of the line image sensor based on the inclination angle derived by the second derivation unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuki Kamio, Katsutoshi Miyahara, Yuichi Sato, Takahiro Ode
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Patent number: 11945235Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus which includes the following: A printhead including a plurality of nozzles that discharge ink to a print medium. A first detection unit that detects a distance between the printhead and a platen. An adjustment unit that adjusts the distance between the printhead and the platen. An acquisition unit that acquires difference information concerning a difference of a distance between the platen and each of the nozzle on an upstream side and the nozzle on a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the print medium. The adjustment unit adjusts the distance based on a detection result of the first detection unit and the difference information acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohito Abe, Daigo Kuronuma, Ryutaro Takahashi, Naoaki Wada, Noriyuki Aoki, Ryohei Maruyama, Masakazu Nagashima, Toshiaki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11949834Abstract: An image reading device includes linear image sensors that are arranged so that adjacent image sensors include an overlapping region in which portions of reading regions of the adjacent image sensors overlap in a main scanning direction, and a buffer unit for read image data. Image data of each overlapping region are generated by synthesizing first image data obtained by a first linear image sensor and second image data obtained by a second linear sensor, the first linear image sensor and the second linear sensor being adjacent in the main scanning direction. Image data of the predetermined line is generated based on image data in which the image data of each overlapping region are excluded from the image data stored in the buffer unit and the image data of each overlapping region. The processing is repeatedly executed in a sub-scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoya Teraji, Katsutoshi Miyahara, Takehiko Kasamatsu, Shota Nonaka
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Patent number: 11945414Abstract: A vehicle windshield wiper blade comprising: a blade support portion; and a lip portion, wherein the lip portion has a tapered portion having a cross section that is taken along a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the wiper blade and that has a width that gradually decreases from a side closer to the blade support portion towards a direction farthest away from the blade support portion, the lip portion has a tip surface and first and second tapered surfaces constituting the tapered portion, and, in a specific observation region of the first and second tapered surfaces, the average value of the elastic modulus measured at a 0.1 ?m pitch is 15-470 MPa and the coefficient of variation of the elastic modulus is at most 17.6%.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takehiko Aoyama, Masanori Yokoyama, Syoji Inoue, Arihiro Yamamoto, Hidekazu Matsuda, Shota Segawa
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Patent number: 11950364Abstract: A module includes a first wiring board, a first integrated circuit component mounted on the first wiring board, a second wiring board overlapping with the first wiring board, a second integrated circuit component mounted on the second wiring board, and a connection member disposed between the first wiring board and the second wiring board and configured to electrically connect the first wiring board and the second wiring board, wherein the second integrated circuit component overlaps with the first wiring board and supplies power to the first integrated circuit component via the connection member.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsutoshi Hasegawa, Satoru Higuchi, Noritake Tsuboi
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Patent number: 11945966Abstract: A photocurable composition can comprise a polymerizable material and a photoinitiator, wherein the polymerizable material may comprise at least one first polymerizable monomer having a structure of Formula (1): (R1)x—Ar—(R2)y (1), with Ar being one or more substituted or unsubstituted aromatic rings; R1 being a structure covalently bonded to Ar including at least one acrylate group; x being 1-4; and R2 being —CH?CH2 or —CCH3=CH2 covalently bonded to Ar; y being 1-4.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fen Wan, Weijun Liu
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Patent number: 11950095Abstract: A communication apparatus automatically starts operating in a direct wireless communication mode in conjunction with a user's logging in to the communication apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuhiko Maki
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Patent number: 11946780Abstract: A scale includes a diffraction grating configured to condense diffracted light in a periodic direction of the diffraction grating in order to detect a reference position. A light receiving element array is configured to receive light from the diffraction grating. The light receiving element array includes first to fourth light receiving elements configured to output signals having phases different from each other. The first light receiving element and the second light receiving element are adjacent to each other and are arranged between the third light receiving element and the fourth light receiving element. The processing unit generates a signal representing the reference position based on a differential signal between a signal from the first light receiving element and a signal from the third light receiving element and a differential signal between a signal from the second light receiving element and a signal from the fourth light receiving element.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chihiro Nagura, Takanori Uemura
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Patent number: 11949867Abstract: An image decoding apparatus comprises a decoder which decodes data indicating a plurality of values corresponding to a part of a quantization matrix; a generator which derives the plurality of values from the data and generates the matrix; and an inverse quantizing unit which performs the inverse quantizing on an object block using the matrix, wherein, if width or height of the matrix is larger than or equal to a predetermined size, the generating unit generates the matrix by associating a first value among the plurality of values with a first element corresponding to DC component in the matrix, associating a second value with a second element adjacent to the first element, and, for the elements other than the first and second elements, associating each of one or more values with a plurality of elements of the matrix.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masato Shima
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Patent number: 11947074Abstract: An optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first unit and a second unit. The first unit includes a first substrate, and a first lens having a negative refractive power and disposed on the image side of the first substrate. The second unit includes a second substrate, and a second lens having a positive refractive power and disposed on the image side of the second substrate. An absolute value of the refractive power on an optical axis of the second lens is larger than that of the first lens. A surface on the image side of the first lens is an aspheric surface. In the aspheric surface of the first lens, a refractive power at an outermost peripheral portion of an effective area is smaller than a refractive power on the optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Mikio Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11949973Abstract: An attachment optical system attachable to and detachable from an imaging optical system includes a first converter optical system attachable to an object side of the imaging optical system, and a second converter optical system attachable to an image side of the imaging optical system. The first converter optical system includes a first unit consisting of a dome-shaped cover. A predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshiyuki Taki
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Patent number: 11947275Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic apparatus including: an electrophotographic photosensitive member; a voltage application unit configured to cause discharge from an electroconductive member to the electrophotographic photosensitive member; a charge transfer amount detection unit configured to detect a charge transfer amount per unit time resulting from the discharge from the electroconductive member to the electrophotographic photosensitive member; and a charging potential control unit, wherein V1 and V2 defined by specific procedures for the electrophotographic photosensitive member satisfy a relationship represented by the following expression (E-4): 100V1<V2?V1 (E-4), and wherein the charging potential control unit is configured to control the charging potential of the electrophotographic photosensitive member at the time of image formation.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shuhei Iwasaki, Kaname Watariguchi, Akihiro Maruyama, Kenichi Kaku, Michiyo Sekiya, Kohei Makisumi, Tatsuya Yamaai, Hideharu Shimozawa, Naoki Fukushima
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Patent number: 11949743Abstract: A device management server that manages device information of a plurality of devices to be managed by a device information storage unit comprises: a device information management unit that manages the device information as a management target or as a non-management target by the device information storage unit; and a device display unit that performs a control such that, when selecting a device to which a first function is to be applied, a device corresponding to the device information managed as a management target is set to be a selection candidate instead of setting a device corresponding to the device information managed as a non-managed target to be a selection candidate, and when selecting a device to which a second function is to be applied, a device corresponding to the device information managed as a management target or non-management target is set to be a selection candidate.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Satoshi Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11948282Abstract: An image processing apparatus generates a normal image, when lighting correction of an image is performed using three-dimensional shape data. Three-dimensional shape data of a predetermined object is adjusted with a subject in position, based on a feature pattern detected in image data, and lighting processing for correcting a pixel value of the image data is performed based on the adjusted three-dimensional shape data, distance information of the subject, and a position of a virtual light source. When the three-dimensional shape data is adjusted with the image data in position, a region having a large irregularity in the three-dimensional shape data is preferentially adjusted in position.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuichi Nakada, Shugo Higuchi
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Patent number: 11949981Abstract: A display device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure acquires time series images; processes the acquired images; performs control so that a processed image is displayed on a display; detects a closed state of an eyelid of a user; and starts power saving processing to reduce power consumption of the image processing or the displaying, in response to the detection of the closed state of the eyelid, and instructs restart of processing that was being performed before the power saving processing, in the image processing or the displaying, at a timing when a specific time has elapsed from the detection of the closed state of the eyelid.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yuya Ebata
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Patent number: 11947284Abstract: A developing device includes a developing container, a developing roller, a supplying roller, a first magnetic including a first magnetic pole, a second magnetic including second to fifth magnetic poles, and a regulating member. Maximum magnetic flux densities of the third and fourth magnetic poles are larger than maximum magnetic flux densities of the fourth and fifth magnetic poles, respectively, with respect to a normal direction to the supplying roller. In a case that positions where a magnetic flux density of the fourth magnetic pole is 50% of the maximum magnetic flux density thereof with respect to the normal direction are a first position and a second position, a position where the magnetic flux density of the fourth magnetic pole becomes maximum with respect to the normal direction is downstream of an intermediary position between the first position and the second position by 3 degrees or more.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Naoki Mugita
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Patent number: 11950437Abstract: An organic light emitting device including, in sequence, a first electrode, a first charge transport layer, a second charge transport layer in contact with the first charge transport layer, a light emitting layer in contact with the second charge transport layer, and a second electrode, wherein the first charge transport layer includes a first material and a second material, the second charge transport layer includes the second material and a third material, and the light emitting layer includes the third material and a fourth material.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki Yamada, Satoru Shiobara, Itaru Takaya, Jun Kamatani
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Patent number: 11947301Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveying portion, a conveying path, a discharge port, a stacking portion, a manual setting portion, a binding device which binds a sheet bundle formed by the stacking portion and a sheet bundle set at the manual setting portion by a staple, a first regulating portion which regulates a position of the sheet bundle at a rear side of the apparatus in a width direction, and a second regulating portion which regulates a position of the sheet bundle in the conveying direction. The binding device is formed to be movable back and forth to a front side and the rear side of the apparatus. When a staple is replenished to the binding device, the binding device is positioned at the third position so that a cartridge of the staple is loaded into the binding device from the front side of the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.Inventors: Yusuke Obuchi, Hideto Abe, Masaya Takahashi, Seiji Nishizawa
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Patent number: 11947844Abstract: A display control method includes the steps of obtaining a first preview image resolution for checking a printing layout, obtaining a second preview image resolution for checking a spot color printing portion where the spot color printing is carried out, and displaying a spot color preview image for checking the spot color printing portion by using a resolution based on the first preview image resolution and the second preview image resolution. The first preview image resolution is calculated and obtained based on a print setting included in the print data and on a size of a region where display is carried out in the preview image displaying step, and the second preview image resolution is calculated and obtained based on a drawing command included in the print data and on the size of the region where display is carried out in the preview image displaying step.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tetsuhide Takasaki
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Patent number: 11947850Abstract: A system includes an external apparatus, a server having an authentication function, and an image processing apparatus that communicate with each other via a network. The system performs user authentication in the server, for a user using the system, acquires apparatus information of the external apparatus from a printing request received from the external apparatus, verifies the apparatus information in the server, and executes printing in the image processing apparatus, based on the printing request from an external apparatus corresponding to the successfully verified apparatus information, in a case where the user authentication and the verification for the external apparatus are successful.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroyuki Nakane
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Patent number: 11947853Abstract: A print system including a printing apparatus and an inspection apparatus, the printing apparatus obtains, from a print job, image data to be used for printing, registers in the inspection apparatus the image data as a reference image, in response to completion of registration of the reference image in the inspection apparatus, executes printing on a sheet based on the print job, and notifies the inspection apparatus of an instruction for inspecting the sheet on which printing has been performed. The inspection apparatus registers the image data received from the printing apparatus as the reference image, and in response to the instruction for inspecting, inspects the sheet on which the printing has been performed in the printing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masahiro Mutsuno
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Patent number: 11948273Abstract: An image processing method includes generating a second image by applying noise to a first image, as a first process, and generating a third image by upsampling the second image through a neural network, as a second process. The second image is generated by applying noise to the first image expressed in a second bit depth higher than a first bit depth of the first image and then restoring the bit depth to the first bit depth.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshinori Kimura
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Patent number: 11945232Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus is provided with a tank that stores ink, a print head that performs print operation by ejecting ink supplied from the tank, a circulation unit that establishes a circulating state to circulate ink in a circulation path if print operation is performed and establishes a stopped state to stop circulation of ink if print operation is terminated, and a deaeration unit that performs deaeration operation to deaerate ink inside the circulation path. The apparatus includes an estimation unit that estimates a dissolved gas amount in ink inside the circulation path based on dissolved gas amounts increased in the circulating state and in the stopped state, respectively, and a control unit that causes the deaeration unit to execute deaeration operation after completion of print operation if the dissolved gas amount estimated by the estimation unit exceeds a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takatoshi Nakano, Yoshinori Nakagawa, Atsushi Takahashi, Takuya Fukasawa
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Patent number: 11948341Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a storage and processing circuitry. The storage is configured to store therein, for each point of a frequency space represented by a plurality of pieces of first frequency component data acquired by applying frequency conversion to data inside regions of interest set to medical images, characteristic data representing a tendency of spectral values that appear at the point. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire second frequency component data by applying frequency conversion to a medical image to be processed, to determine similarity of a spectral value at each point of a frequency space represented by the second frequency component data, with the characteristic data, and to designate a target area in the frequency space represented by the second frequency component data based on the result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Ryo Hirano
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Patent number: 11948342Abstract: A first binary image is generated by binarizing an input image based on a threshold, a second binary image is generated by changing a pixel that has predetermined high luminance in the input image into a black pixel, and whether a black pixel cluster in the second binary image is made to be an extraction target is determined based on a position of a character image identified based on a black pixel cluster in the first binary image, and a position of the black pixel cluster in the second binary image.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Satoru Yamanaka
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Patent number: 11948910Abstract: A manufacturing method of a semiconductor apparatus includes preparing an intermediate member that includes a first member having a first substrate comprising a semiconductor element formed thereon, a second member having a second substrate, the second substrate including a part of a circuit electrically connected to the semiconductor element and having a linear expansion coefficient different from that of the first substrate, and a third member having a third substrate showing such a linear expansion coefficient that a difference between itself and the linear expansion coefficient of the first substrate is smaller than a difference between the linear expansion coefficients of the first substrate and the second substrate, and includes bonding the first member and the second member together. A first bonding electrode containing copper electrically connected to the semiconductor element and a second bonding electrode containing copper electrically connected to the circuit are bonded together.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinichiro Watanabe, Youichi Fukaya
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Patent number: 11949767Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a first counter configured to synchronize with a reference time, a second counter configured to synchronize with the first counter, a generation unit configured to generate a synchronization signal each time when a value of the second counter is incremented by a predetermined number, a correction unit configured to correct the value of the second counter toward a value of the first counter, and a control unit configured to control the correction unit to cause the correction unit to calculate a difference between the value of the first counter and the value of the second counter and, in a case where the calculated difference is greater than a predetermined threshold value, the correction unit to correct the value of the second counter step by step.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Mitsumasa Abe
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Patent number: 11950012Abstract: An apparatus including a sensor for setting an exposure time or gain for each of pixel groups including at least one pixel includes an imaging unit including the sensor configured to capture a subject through an optical system to generate an image, an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a specific image region in the generated image, a determination unit configured to determine a specific pixel region including at least one pixel group in the sensor and corresponding to the specific image region, based on the information about the specific image region, a change unit configured to change at least one of a number, a size, and a shape of pixel groups in the specific pixel region determined by the determination unit, and a control unit configured to control the exposure time or gain for each of the pixel groups.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Seigo Kaneko
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Patent number: 11950030Abstract: An electronic apparatus enables a user to suitably select sound to be collected in connection with moving image capturing. The electronic apparatus is communicable with a plurality of sound collection devices, and includes a display control unit that displays, for each of the plurality of sound collection devices, a display item corresponding to the each sound collection device, based on positional information for the respective each sound collection device, acquired by a position acquisition unit, and displays, with the plurality of displayed display items, an image acquired by an image acquisition unit, wherein the display control unit displays, for the each sound collection device, the corresponding display item, even if the display item corresponds to a sound collection device not located within a range of image capturing of the acquired image, and a control unit associates and records the acquired image and sound information in a recording device.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akio Yoshikawa, Takashi Seki
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Patent number: 11949825Abstract: A scanning optical device includes a deflector, a reflecting mirror, a housing to accommodate the deflector and the mirror; and an elastic member to urge the mirror toward the housing. The mirror includes a first surface urged by the elastic member, a second surface opposite to the first surface, a third surface and a fourth surface perpendicular to the first and second surfaces. The housing includes a bearing surface to support the second surface and a regulating portion to regulate movement of the mirror to a mirror widthwise direction, perpendicular to a mirror longitudinal direction and parallel with the second surface, and toward an opening of the housing. The regulating portion is provided opposite to only a part of the third surface so that a ridge line of the mirror between the second surface and the third surface does not contact the regulating member even an attitude of the mirror changes in a direction away from the bearing surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuhiro Obara, Taku Murotani, Hiroki Katayama
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Patent number: 11949830Abstract: If the printing protocol associated with a received print job is not an internet printing protocol, the number of times of printing is counted for each type of printing protocol. If the printing protocol associated with a received print job is an internet printing protocol, the number of times of printing is counted while distinguishing a transmission source application by identifying a transmission source application.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Ritsuto Sako
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Patent number: 11949857Abstract: A method of decoding coding blocks of a coding tree unit for an image frame, from a bitstream. The method comprises determining a chroma format of the image frame, the chroma format having chroma channels of the image frame being subsampled relative to a luma channel of the image frame; and determining, based on the determined chroma format, a size of a chroma coding block of one of the chroma channels of the coding tree unit, wherein the chroma coding block is collocated with a plurality of corresponding luma blocks. The method comprises determining the chroma coding block is encoded using intra prediction if the determined size of the chroma block is a predetermined minimum chroma block size; and decoding the coding blocks of the coding tree using intra prediction for the chroma coding block and inter prediction for at least one of the plurality of corresponding luma coding blocks.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Christopher James Rosewarne
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Patent number: 11950303Abstract: A communication system includes a communication apparatus and a communication terminal configured to wirelessly communicate with each other, wherein the communication terminal includes a first wireless communication interface configured to support a Bluetooth® standard and include a single antenna, and wherein the communication apparatus includes a second wireless communication interface configured to support the Bluetooth® standard and include a plurality of antennas, and includes one or more controllers configured to function as a unit configured to obtain angle information and field intensity information based on a result of reception of radio waves, by the plurality of antennas, transmitted from the single antenna; and a unit configured to transmit an establishment request for wireless communication based on the Bluetooth® standard to the first wireless communication interface via the second wireless communication interface based on a fact that the angle information and the field intensity information satType: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Manabu Hada, Tsunahito Nakashita, Motoki Koshigaya, Koichi Ito, Tatsuya Ogawa