Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Narita

Hirofumi Narita 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: 9400947
    Abstract: A printing control method for printing an image onto a recording medium including inputting data to be used for printing a page, setting a position and a size of a margin for a plurality of pages represented by the input data, according to an instruction from a user, and causing a print device to print an image including the plurality of pages and in which the binging margin with the set width is arranged at the set position, onto the recording medium in a direction determined according to the width of the margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirofumi Narita
  • Publication number: 20150161490
    Abstract: A printing control method for printing an image onto a recording medium including inputting data to be used for printing a page, setting a position and a size of a margin for a plurality of pages represented by the input data, according to an instruction from a user, and causing a print device to print an image including the plurality of pages and in which the binging margin with the set width is arranged at the set position, onto the recording medium in a direction determined according to the width of the margin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventor: Hirofumi Narita
  • Patent number: 8982410
    Abstract: A printing control method for printing an image onto a recording medium including inputting data to be used for printing a page, setting a position and a size of a margin for a plurality of pages represented by the input data, according to an instruction from a user, and causing a print device to print an image including the plurality of pages and in which the binding margin with the set width is arranged at the set position, onto the recording medium in a direction determined according to the width of the margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirofumi Narita
  • Patent number: 8422061
    Abstract: To allow the management of suspended printed jobs while being distinguished based on reasons for suspension and removing the reasons to execute the print jobs, for a plurality of print jobs suspended in the printing apparatus, the print jobs are distinguished based on reasons for suspension to specify the print jobs; information making the specified plurality of print jobs and reasons for suspension recognizable is displayed on a display apparatus; and the printing apparatus is made to execute the specified plurality of print jobs according to a print instruction from a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirofumi Narita
  • Patent number: 8403476
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first sheet discharge unit, a second sheet discharge unit, a switching unit configured to cause a sheet discharge destination to switch between the first sheet discharge unit and the second sheet discharge unit, a memory unit configured to store information about drying time of a print medium, a timer unit configured to determine elapse of the drying time of the printed print medium based on the information stored in the memory unit, and a control unit configured to control the switching unit to set the first sheet discharge unit to be the sheet discharge destination based on a determination of the timer unit that a drying time of a print medium discharged to the first sheet discharge unit has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Kawamura, Takashi Tsuzuki, Nobuyoshi Tanaka, Yoshiyuki Hosokawa, Hirofumi Narita
  • Publication number: 20110157614
    Abstract: This invention provides an image processing method and image processing apparatus, which allow the user to select an image for which an amount of printing material applied to a printing medium is to be reduced. To an object selected on a selection window, a CPU applies image processing for reducing a printing material to data of an internal part of the selected object except for its contour using a program of a printer driver. Then, this invention can provide an image processing method and image processing apparatus, which are convenient for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: Canon Finetech Inc.
    Inventors: KENJI UEDA, Kenji Hatakeyama, Hirofumi Narita, Yasukazu Ono
  • Publication number: 20100245872
    Abstract: A printing control method for printing an image onto a recording medium including inputting data to be used for printing a page, setting a position and a size of a margin for a plurality of pages represented by the input data, according to an instruction from a user, and causing a print device to print an image including the plurality of pages and in which the binging margin with the set width is arranged at the set position, onto the recording medium in a direction determined according to the width of the margin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirofumi Narita
  • Publication number: 20100214601
    Abstract: To allow the management of suspended printed jobs while being distinguished based on reasons for suspension and removing the reasons to execute the print jobs, for a plurality of print jobs suspended in the printing apparatus, the print jobs are distinguished based on reasons for suspension to specify the print jobs; information making the specified plurality of print jobs and reasons for suspension recognizable is displayed on a display apparatus; and the printing apparatus is made to execute the specified plurality of print jobs according to a print instruction from a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirofumi Narita
  • Publication number: 20090052913
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first sheet discharge unit, a second sheet discharge unit, a switching unit configured to cause a sheet discharge destination to switch between the first sheet discharge unit and the second sheet discharge unit, a memory unit configured to store information about drying time of a print medium, a timer unit configured to determine elapse of the drying time of the printed print medium based on the information stored in the memory unit, and a control unit configured to control the switching unit to set the first sheet discharge unit to be the sheet discharge destination based on a determination of the timer unit that a drying time of a print medium discharged to the first sheet discharge unit has elapsed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya Kawamura, Takashi Tsuzuki, Nobuyoshi Tanaka, Yoshiyuki Hosokawa, Hirofumi Narita