Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Morimoto

Hiroaki Morimoto 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).

  • Patent number: 11964232
    Abstract: Provided is a carbon dioxide recovery system that separates CO2 from a CO2-containing gas containing CO2 by an electrochemical reaction, and comprises an electrochemical cell comprising a working electrode containing a CO2 adsorbent, and a counter electrode. Application of a voltage between the working electrode and the counter electrode causes electrons to be supplied from the counter electrode to the working electrode, and enables the CO2 adsorbent to bind to CO2 as electrons are supplied. The CO2 adsorbent is a crystalline porous body, and has a molecular structure in which a functional group that exchanges electrons and binds to CO2 is regularly arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hiroaki Umeda, Youhei Morimoto, Hiroki Takezaki, Satoshi Horike
  • Publication number: 20240036778
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a program executable by a computer of an information processing apparatus and configured to extend a function in association with print data generation software available on a plurality of different printers, the program causing the computer to execute processing including acquiring information from a printer among the plurality of printers; determining information to be displayed on a print setting screen of an operating system of the information processing apparatus, based on the information acquired from the printer; and notifying the operating system of the information processing apparatus of screen definition information defining the information to be displayed on the print setting screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventor: HIROAKI MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240036785
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for allowing a user to check necessary information without explicitly giving instructions to display a screen of an extension application. A program executable by a computer of an information processing apparatus and configured to extend a function in association with print data generation software for generating print data printable by a plurality of different printers causes the computer to execute processing including acquiring information from a printer; determining information to be displayed on a print setting screen of an operating system of the information processing apparatus, based on the information acquired from the printer; and notifying the operating system of the information processing apparatus of screen definition information defining the information to be displayed on the print setting screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventor: HIROAKI MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230403361
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus instructs, if an audio input device such as a microphone is in use by the information processing apparatus, a printing apparatus to which a print job is transmitted to operate in a silent mode to reduce operation noise occurring in printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventor: HIROAKI MORIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11755256
    Abstract: A method of controlling an information processing apparatus includes registering a printer in the information processing apparatus, generating a print queue for the printer in a case where the printer is registered, and managing a plurality of addresses that are transmission destinations of print data in association with the generated print queue. In a case where the plurality of addresses are associated with a print queue corresponding to an option selected by a user in a screen for selecting a printer to be caused to perform printing based on print data, any address of the plurality of addresses is determined as a transmission destination address based on a predetermined condition, and control is performed to transmit the print data to the determined transmission destination address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroaki Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20220308802
    Abstract: Provided is a method of controlling an information processing apparatus. The control method includes: registering a printer in the information processing apparatus; generating a print queue for the printer in a case where the printer is registered; and managing a plurality of addresses that are transmission destinations of print data in association with the generated print queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventor: Hiroaki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11079983
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected to a device to which an IP address is not set is provided. The apparatus acquires device information that includes unique information of the device, decides a free port number and decide an address, which includes the decided port number, as an access destination for acquiring data from the device, shares the address with an access source, and notifies the unique information and the port number, wherein, when the access source accesses the shared address, the access is detected based on the port number and data is requested from the device corresponding to the unique information, and when the data is received from the device, the data is transmitted to the access source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroaki Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20200089445
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected to a device to which an IP address is not set is provided. The apparatus acquires device information that includes unique information of the device, decides a free port number and decide an address, which includes the decided port number, as an access destination for acquiring data from the device, shares the address with an access source, and notifies the unique information and the port number, wherein, when the access source accesses the shared address, the access is detected based on the port number and data is requested from the device corresponding to the unique information, and when the data is received from the device, the data is transmitted to the access source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Hiroaki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10466940
    Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus that determines whether transmission of data to a transmission destination by a communication function satisfies a predetermined condition concerning data transmission, and controls the communication function such that upon determining that the predetermined condition is satisfied, a signal that does not include the data is transmitted to the transmission destination, and upon determining that the predetermined condition is not satisfied, a signal including the data is transmitted to the transmission destination. If a response to instruct transfer of the signal from the transmission destination to another transmission destination is received in accordance with the transmission of the signal to the transmission destination, the communication apparatus controls the communication function such that the signal including the data is transmitted to the other transmission destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroaki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10277765
    Abstract: A program is provided for causing a computer of a device having a predetermined program and at least one other program other than the predetermined program to execute acquiring processing for acquiring an exclusive object before the job is generated using the predetermined program and generating the job by means of the predetermined program in a state in which the acquired exclusive object is held.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroaki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10210264
    Abstract: A vehicle-repair support system including a communication terminal and a server is provided. The communication terminal obtains vehicle information from a vehicle. The server receives vehicle information from the communication terminal and supports repair of the vehicle. The server comprises an inquiry unit, a search unit and a search result notification unit. The inquiry unit makes an inquiry to a repair requester about a vehicle condition. Based on a result of the inquiry made by the inquiry unit, the search unit makes a search for information about similar cases which involve a symptom similar to a symptom of the vehicle targeted for the repair. The search result notification unit notifies a result of the search made by the search unit to the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Morimoto, Masakazu Yamada, Naoki Muramatsu, Hiroki Ukai
  • Patent number: 10185520
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected to a printing apparatus includes a database configured to associate and manage a command identifier and a maintenance command, an acquisition unit configured to acquire from the database the maintenance command corresponding to a command identifier designated by an application and acquired via a spooler according to a port monitor that functions based on an expansion file, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the acquired maintenance command to the printing apparatus according to the port monitor that functions based on the expansion file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroaki Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20180329657
    Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus that determines whether transmission of data to a transmission destination by a communication function satisfies a predetermined condition concerning data transmission, and controls the communication function such that upon determining that the predetermined condition is satisfied, a signal that does not include the data is transmitted to the transmission destination, and upon determining that the predetermined condition is not satisfied, a signal including the data is transmitted to the transmission destination. If a response to instruct transfer of the signal from the transmission destination to another transmission destination is received in accordance with the transmission of the signal to the transmission destination, the communication apparatus controls the communication function such that the signal including the data is transmitted to the other transmission destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventor: Hiroaki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10055176
    Abstract: There are provided an information processing apparatus and a control method which realize job holding processing while reducing time taken to complete transmission of a job. The control method includes not notifying a spooler of deletion of the job from a job queue after the spooler specifies that transmission of all of pieces of data corresponding to the job is completed and in a case where processing of the job is not completed by a communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroaki Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20180220025
    Abstract: A program is provided for causing a computer of a device having a predetermined program and at least one other program other than the predetermined program to execute acquiring processing for acquiring an exclusive object before the job is generated using the predetermined program and generating the job by means of the predetermined program in a state in which the acquired exclusive object is held.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventor: Hiroaki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 9836258
    Abstract: A problem is solved by providing an information processing apparatus having a processing unit for performing processing based on device information acquired by acquisition processing performed at a time of connection with an external device, when performing the processing based on the device information is determined and the information processing apparatus is connected to the external device by a first connection method, and performing the processing based on the device information acquired by the acquisition processing performed after performing the processing based on the device information is determined, when performing the processing based on the device information is determined and the information processing apparatus is connected to the external device by a second connection method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro Miyagawa, Hiroaki Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20170249111
    Abstract: There are provided an information processing apparatus and a control method which realize job holding processing while reducing time taken to complete transmission of a job. The control method includes not notifying a spooler of deletion of the job from a job queue after the spooler specifies that transmission of all of pieces of data corresponding to the job is completed and in a case where processing of the job is not completed by a communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventor: Hiroaki Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20160350038
    Abstract: A problem is solved by providing an information processing apparatus having a processing unit for performing processing based on device information acquired by acquisition processing performed at a time of connection with an external device, when performing the processing based on the device information is determined and the information processing apparatus is connected to the external device by a first connection method, and performing the processing based on the device information acquired by the acquisition processing performed after performing the processing based on the device information is determined, when performing the processing based on the device information is determined and the information processing apparatus is connected to the external device by a second connection method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Tomohiro Miyagawa, Hiroaki Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20160170691
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected to a printing apparatus includes a database configured to associate and manage a command identifier and a maintenance command, an acquisition unit configured to acquire from the database the maintenance command corresponding to a command identifier designated by an application and acquired via a spooler according to a port monitor that functions based on an expansion file, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the acquired maintenance command to the printing apparatus according to the port monitor that functions based on the expansion file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventor: Hiroaki Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20160085864
    Abstract: A vehicle-repair support system including a communication terminal and a server is provided. The communication terminal obtains vehicle information from a vehicle. The server receives vehicle information from the communication terminal and supports repair of the vehicle. The server comprises an inquiry unit, a search unit and a search result notification unit. The inquiry unit makes an inquiry to a repair requester about a vehicle condition. Based on a result of the inquiry made by the inquiry unit, the search unit makes a search for information about similar cases which involve a symptom similar to a symptom of the vehicle targeted for the repair. The search result notification unit notifies a result of the search made by the search unit to the communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki MORIMOTO, Masakazu YAMADA, Naoki MURAMATSU, Hiroki UKAI