Patents by Inventor Hideaki Ooba

Hideaki Ooba has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200225887
    Abstract: A print control apparatus capable of enabling a user to easily set settings of adjustment items. The print control apparatus controls printing by a print engine. The print control apparatus controls the display of a plurality of adjustment items of the print engine. Out of the plurality of adjustment items, the adjustment items of a specific display group registered by a user are displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Aya Ito, Hideaki Ooba, Nobuhiro Kawamura, Yusuke Kimura
  • Patent number: 10609237
    Abstract: An image forming system having a printing apparatus including a feeder to be pulled out and an image forming unit. The printing apparatus further includes a reception unit to receive a user instruction for setting sheet information on a sheet in association with the feeder. Based on set sheet information, the image forming unit forms an image on a sheet fed from the feeder. The image forming system further includes a display unit to display feeder information and a detection unit to detect that the feeder in a pulled-out state is closed. The display unit displays the feeder information subjected to the user instruction in a first display form and, based on a detection by the detection unit, changes the display by the display unit including the first display form having the feeder information to a display including a second display form different from the first display form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Aya Ito, Yuzo Harano, Hideaki Ooba, Nobuhiro Kawamura, Yusuke Kimura
  • Patent number: 10587764
    Abstract: A print management system includes an image forming apparatus and a control apparatus, and includes a detection unit, a display unit, and a setting unit. The detection unit detects paper information which is set with respect to a print job. The display unit displays the paper information detected by the detection unit on a display device. The setting unit controls processing for displaying a setting screen used to allocate the paper information displayed on the display device to a paper feed stage of the image forming apparatus on a screen of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yusuke Kimura, Yuzo Harano, Hideaki Ooba, Aya Ito, Junichi Yamakawa, Nobuhiro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10565480
    Abstract: A printing control apparatus connected to a printing apparatus operated in a standby state and a power saving state includes a reception unit that receives a printing request for causing the printing apparatus to execute printing, a generation unit that generates printing data in accordance with the printing request received by the reception unit, a determination unit that determines whether or not the printing apparatus is in the power saving state, and a transmission unit that transmits return data for returning the printing apparatus from the power saving state to the standby state before the printing data generated by the generation unit is transmitted in a case where the determination unit determines that the printing apparatus is in the power saving state, and does not transmit the return data in a case where the determination unit determines that the printing apparatus is not in the power saving state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideaki Ooba
  • Publication number: 20200004472
    Abstract: A sheet management system, in which a print control apparatus and an image forming apparatus are configured to communicate with each other, includes a selection unit, an adjustment unit, a confirmation unit, and a setting unit. The selection unit selects a sheet feeding deck. The adjustment unit adjusts sheet information including setting values for performing print processing on a sheet to be used for printing. The confirmation unit confirms. In a case where there is not a match between selected sheet information set for the sheet feeding deck and the sheet information to be adjusted, the confirmation unit confirms whether the sheet information to be adjusted by the adjustment unit is to be set for the selected sheet feeding deck. The setting unit sets the sheet information adjusted by the adjustment unit for the image forming apparatus in accordance with a result of confirmation by the confirmation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yusuke Kimura, Nobuhiro Kawamura, Aya Ito, Hideaki Ooba
  • Publication number: 20190342459
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus determines whether a network address of a first IP address used in a wireless communication with a first external apparatus conflicts with a network address of a second IP address used in communication with the second external apparatus. A predetermined process is executed at least in a case where it is determined that the network address of the first IP address conflicts with the network address of the second IP address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventor: Hideaki Ooba
  • Patent number: 10469685
    Abstract: A print control apparatus to communicate with a printing apparatus includes storage, display, setting, and selection units. The storage unit stores identification information of a plurality of sheets in association with stored adjustment values of a plurality of adjustment items. The display unit displays the stored identification information of the plurality of sheets. The setting unit sets, based on a user instruction, the adjustment values of the stored adjustment items. The selection unit selects, based on a user instruction, identification information of one sheet from among the identification information of the plurality of sheets displayed on the display unit. Based on a selection, the display unit displays, in addition to the displayed identification information of the plurality of sheets, at least one of the adjustment items of which set adjustment values are stored from among the adjustment values associated with the selected identification information of the one sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Aya Ito, Junichi Yamakawa, Yuzo Harano, Hideaki Ooba, Yusuke Kimura, Nobuhiro Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20190329995
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding device having a plurality of sheet feeding units, an opening and closing controlling unit, and a receiving unit. The opening and closing controlling unit controls opening and closing of the sheet feeding unit. Where the receiving unit receives an instruction for assigning a sheet having selected one attribute to designated one sheet feeding unit, the opening and closing controlling unit opens the designated one sheet feeding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kawamura, Yuzo Harano, Hideaki Ooba, Aya Ito, Yusuke Kimura
  • Publication number: 20190310805
    Abstract: The present invention provides a print control apparatus that controls a print apparatus. The print control apparatus displays pieces of identification information of a plurality of sheet feeders available in the print apparatus, and designates inhibition of sheet feed from sheet feeders other than a sheet feeder selected by a user among the displayed pieces of identification information of the plurality of sheet feeders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Yuzo Harano, Hideaki Ooba, Aya Ito, Nobuhiro Kawamura, Yusuke Kimura
  • Patent number: 10404869
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus determines whether a network address of a first IP address used in a wireless communication with a first external apparatus conflicts with a network address of a second IP address used in communication with the second external apparatus. A predetermined process is executed at least in a case where it is determined that the network address of the first IP address conflicts with the network address of the second IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideaki Ooba
  • Publication number: 20190238701
    Abstract: An image forming system having a printing apparatus including a feeder to be pulled out and an image forming unit. The printing apparatus further includes a reception unit to receive a user instruction for setting sheet information on a sheet in association with the feeder. Based on set sheet information, the image forming unit forms an image on a sheet fed from the feeder. The image forming system further includes a display unit to display feeder information and a detection unit to detect that the feeder in a pulled-out state is closed. The display unit displays the feeder information subjected to the user instruction in a first display form and, based on a detection by the detection unit, changes the display by the display unit including the first display form having the feeder information to a display including a second display form different from the first display form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Aya Ito, Yuzo Harano, Hideaki Ooba, Nobuhiro Kawamura, Yusuke Kimura
  • Publication number: 20190112140
    Abstract: It aims to solve a problem that in a printer including a mixture of sheet feeding devices for which points of view regarding the presence/absence of sheets are different, such as a deck-type sheet feeder and a manual feed tray, appropriate warning displays cannot be presented regarding the presence/absence of printing sheets in the respective sheet feeding devices, and thereby improve the operability of a printing system. In a printing system including an image forming apparatus and a print controller, the image forming apparatus has a deck-type first sheet feeder, a tray-type second sheet feeder, and a sheet quantity notification unit for the sheet feeders, and the print controller has a display unit. The print controller displays a warning when there are no remaining printing sheets in the first sheet feeder, and does not display a warning when there are no remaining printing sheets in the second sheet feeder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Yuzo Harano, Hideaki Ooba, Aya Ito, Junichi Yamakawa, Yusuke Kimura, Nobuhiro Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20190114519
    Abstract: A paper management system setting a paper information piece of paper stored in a sheet feeding unit in an image forming apparatus from a list of paper information pieces registers the paper information pieces with a favorite group, displays a list of the paper information pieces for each favorite group, and enables the list of the paper information pieces to be associated with a paper feed unit through the screen displaying the list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Yusuke Kimura, Yuzo Harano, Hideaki Ooba, Aya Ito, Nobuhiro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10261454
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus determines whether crease processing at a plurality of portions set on the sheet includes crease processing on two, front and back surfaces of the sheet; determines, if it is determined that crease processing includes crease processing on the two surfaces of the sheet, whether a connected post-processing apparatus that performs crease processing on a sheet can perform crease processing on the two, front and back surfaces of the sheet by one feeding; and controls, if it is determined that the connected post-processing apparatus cannot perform crease processing on the two surfaces by one feeding, to change, to one of the front and back surfaces of the sheet based on attribute information of the sheet, a surface to be processed in crease processing at the plurality of portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideaki Ooba
  • Publication number: 20190037091
    Abstract: A print management system having a control apparatus and an image forming apparatus with sheet feeding cassettes includes a sheet data registration unit to register sheet data indicating an attribute of each print sheet, a sheet feeding cassette selection unit to select a sheet feeding cassette, and a sheet data selection unit to select sheet data about at least one type of print sheet from the registered sheet data. An adjustment value setting unit sets adjustment value information during image formation while feeding the selected print sheet and a database setting unit sets, in association with each other, the attribute of the selected sheet feeding cassette, the selected sheet data about the print sheet, and the set adjustment value information. The database setting unit allows setting to one piece of sheet data adjustment value information about each sheet feeding cassette selected by the sheet feeding cassette selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Junichi Yamakawa, Yuzo Harano, Hideaki Ooba, Aya Ito, Nobuhiro Kawamura, Yusuke Kimura
  • Publication number: 20190020771
    Abstract: A print management system includes an image forming apparatus and a control apparatus, and includes a detection unit, a display unit, and a setting unit. The detection unit detects paper information which is set with respect to a print job. The display unit displays the paper information detected by the detection unit on a display device. The setting unit controls processing for displaying a setting screen used to allocate the paper information displayed on the display device to a paper feed stage of the image forming apparatus on a screen of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Yusuke Kimura, Yuzo Harano, Hideaki Ooba, Aya Ito, Junichi Yamakawa, Nobuhiro Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20190009595
    Abstract: A control apparatus accepts one or more job reservations for an image forming apparatus, and makes settings on a plurality of setting items for each paper type of paper used by the image forming apparatus so as to form an image thereon. In a case where selecting a paper type for which settings are made, the control apparatus determines whether or not there is a job that uses a paper of the selected paper type in the accepted jobs. In a case where it is determined that there is a job that uses a paper of the selected paper type in the accepted jobs, the control apparatus performs control on the selected paper type so as to impose a setting restriction to a portion of the plurality of setting items, and allow settings to be made on another setting items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kawamura, Yuzo Harano, Hideaki Ooba, Aya Ito, Junichi Yamakawa, Yusuke Kimura
  • Publication number: 20190007571
    Abstract: A print control apparatus to communicate with a printing apparatus includes storage, display, setting, and selection units. The storage unit stores identification information of a plurality of sheets in association with stored adjustment values of a plurality of adjustment items. The display unit displays the stored identification information of the plurality of sheets. The setting unit sets, based on a user instruction, the adjustment values of the stored adjustment items. The selection unit selects, based on a user instruction, identification information of one sheet from among the identification information of the plurality of sheets displayed on the display unit. Based on a selection, the display unit displays, in addition to the displayed identification information of the plurality of sheets, at least one of the adjustment items of which set adjustment values are stored from among the adjustment values associated with the selected identification information of the one sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Aya Ito, Junichi Yamakawa, Yuzo Harano, Hideaki Ooba, Yusuke Kimura, Nobuhiro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10148852
    Abstract: An image processing system includes a control apparatus and an image processing apparatus to which the control apparatus is connected and that accesses a network via the control apparatus, wherein remote maintenance by an information processing apparatus is performed via the network. The image processing apparatus connects to a server apparatus that relays communication between the control apparatus and the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideaki Ooba
  • Publication number: 20180330209
    Abstract: A print control apparatus capable of communicating with a printing apparatus, including a sheet holding unit in which a sheet to be used for printing is held, for printing an image on the sheet held in the sheet holding unit includes storage configured to store a type of a sheet, an image, and a setting value of the printing apparatus in association with each other, selects a type of a sheet to be used for printing by the printing apparatus, selects an image to be printed by the printing apparatus, and sets the setting value stored in the storage in association with the selected type of the sheet and the selected image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Hideaki Ooba, Yuzo Harano, Aya Ito, Junichi Yamakawa, Yusuke Kimura, Nobuhiro Kawamura