Patents by Inventor Hiromi Ikeda
Hiromi Ikeda 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).
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Publication number: 20240093639Abstract: This gas turbine plant is provided with a gas turbine and a fuel supply facility. The fuel supply facility is provided with: a liquid ammonia line; a warm water line through which warm water can flow; a vaporizer which can perform the heat exchange between the warm water coming from the warm water line and liquid ammonia coming from the liquid ammonia line to heat and vaporize the liquid ammonia; a heat exchanger which can perform the heat exchange between the warm water in the warm water line and a medium; a heat exchange amount controller which can control the amount of heat exchange between the warm water and the medium to control the temperature of the warm water flowing into the vaporizer; and a gaseous ammonia line which can introduce gaseous ammonia that is ammonia vaporized by the vaporizer into the gas turbine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Ryo IKEDA, Hiromi ISHII, Akira HATTORI, Michio SASAKI, Takahiro SUGAWARA
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Publication number: 20240085764Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a plurality of contacts electrically connectable to an accessory and arranged in a first direction orthogonal to a direction in which the accessory is attached. The contacts include an attachment detection contact to detect an attachment of the accessory to the electronic apparatus, and a communication request contact for a communication request from the accessory to the electronic apparatus. The attachment detection and communication request contacts are disposed between a contact closest one end and a contact closest to another end in the first direction. The attachment detection contact is disposed between the communication request contact and the contact closest to the one end. In the first direction, a distance between the attachment detection contact and the communication request contact is shorter than that between the communication request contact and the contact closest to the other end.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Hiromichi Sakamoto, Kei Tohyama, Takayuki Shu, Hiromi Hayasaki, Kouji Ikeda, Yuhei Hattori, Kenji Ishii, Yoshinobu Okano
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Patent number: 7895534Abstract: When positional information in an operation window is input (designated), an interpretation result for an input position and a confidence score of the interpretation result are calculated on the basis of the input position information. Assume that a plurality of candidates are present as interpretation results. In presenting the candidates as the interpretation results in this case, the display contents are so changed as to have an enlarged image of a range within which the candidates as the interpretation results fall or the candidates are output using a changed output modality.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2004Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiromi Ikeda
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Patent number: 7746491Abstract: There are provided an information processing method and apparatus, which can composite an image at a link destination into document data upon printing document data that describes address information as a link to an image file, can obviate the need for additional access by the user, and can improve user's convenience. This information processing apparatus prints document data that describes address information of an image on a server which can be accessed via the Internet. An operation unit (107) issues a print instruction of an image, and makes its setups. Address information is detected from document data, and that image is accessed via the Internet. It is checked if the accessed image can be embedded in the document data. If the accessed image can be embedded, that image is downloaded. The downloaded image is embedded at a predetermined position in the document upon printing the document data.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2004Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromi Ikeda, Tsuyoshi Yagisawa, Makoto Hirota
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Patent number: 7480073Abstract: Disclosed is a method that makes it easier to configure an image processing apparatus capable of reading an image and processing the image in accordance with settings information, the method including an identification step of identifying whether the read image is a document that carries settings information; and a setting step of setting the settings information, which is carried on the read image, if the read image has been identified as being a document carrying the settings information.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2003Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromi Ikeda, Toshiaki Fukada, Makoto Hirota
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Patent number: 7451090Abstract: In a system implementing image retrieval by performing speech recognition on voice information added to an image, the speech recognition is triggered by an event, such as an image upload event, that is not an explicit speech-recognition order event. The system obtains voice information added to an image, detects an event, and performs speech recognition on the obtained voice information in response to a specific event, even if the detected event is not an explicit speech-recognition order event.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2005Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenichiro Nakagawa, Makoto Hirota, Hiromi Ikeda, Tsuyoshi Yagisawa, Hiroki Yamamoto, Toshiaki Fukada, Yasuhiro Komori
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Patent number: 7421655Abstract: M_IDs corresponding to “not available” and “recommended 1” in respective setup items are read, and images corresponding to “recommended 1” and “not available” are read (S803). An image indicating “not available” and that indicating “recommended 1” corresponding to respective setup items are displayed at neighboring positions of GUI components of the respective setup items displayed on the display screen (S804).Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2004Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromi Ikeda, Makoto Hirota
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Patent number: 7376332Abstract: In an information processing apparatus or method for presenting multimedia data, a storage unit holds an object in an image, such as an image, characters, or symbols, and sound data associated with the object. Metadata of the object is referred to, and an output parameter of the sound data associated with the object is determined based on the metadata. Then, a sound output unit outputs the sound data at a sound volume or the like based on the output parameter.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2004Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromi Ikeda, Tsuyoshi Yagisawa, Toshiaki Fukada
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Publication number: 20060209319Abstract: Disclosed is a method that makes it easier to configure an image processing apparatus capable of reading an image and processing the image in accordance with settings information, the method including an identification step of identifying whether the read image is a document that carries settings information; and a setting step of setting the settings information, which is carried on the read image, if the read image has been identified as being a document carrying the settings information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2003Publication date: September 21, 2006Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromi Ikeda, Toshiaki Fukada, Makoto Hirota
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Publication number: 20050267747Abstract: In a system implementing image retrieval by performing speech recognition on voice information added to an image, the speech recognition is triggered by an event, such as an image upload event, that is not an explicit speech-recognition order event. The system obtains voice information added to an image, detects an event, and performs speech recognition on the obtained voice information in response to a specific event, even if the detected event is not an explicit speech-recognition order event.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2005Publication date: December 1, 2005Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenichiro Nakagawa, Makoto Hirota, Hiromi Ikeda, Tsuyoshi Yagisawa, Hiroki Yamamoto, Toshiaki Fukada, Yasuhiro Komori
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Publication number: 20050132301Abstract: When positional information in an operation window is input (designated), an interpretation result for an input position and a confidence score of the interpretation result are calculated on the basis of the input position information. Assume that a plurality of candidates are present as interpretation results. In presenting the candidates as the interpretation results in this case, the display contents are so changed as to have an enlarged image of a range within which the candidates as the interpretation results fall or the candidates are output using a changed output modality.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2004Publication date: June 16, 2005Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiromi Ikeda
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Publication number: 20050097439Abstract: In an information processing apparatus or method for presenting multimedia data, a storage unit holds an object in an image, such as an image, characters, or symbols, and sound data associated with the object. Metadata of the object is referred to, and an output parameter of the sound data associated with the object is determined based on the metadata. Then, a sound output unit outputs the sound data at a sound volume or the like based on the output parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2004Publication date: May 5, 2005Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromi Ikeda, Tsuyoshi Yagisawa, Toshiaki Fukada
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Publication number: 20050027483Abstract: There are provided an information processing method and apparatus, which can composite an image at a link destination into document data upon printing document data that describes address information as a link to an image file, can obviate the need for additional access by the user, and can improve user's convenience. This information processing apparatus prints document data that describes address information of an image on a server which can be accessed via the Internet. An operation unit (107) issues a print instruction of an image, and makes its setups. Address information is detected from document data, and that image is accessed via the Internet. It is checked if the accessed image can be embedded in the document data. If the accessed image can be embedded, that image is downloaded. The downloaded image is embedded at a predetermined position in the document upon printing the document data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiromi Ikeda, Tsuyoshi Yagisawa, Makoto Hirota
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Publication number: 20050018658Abstract: M_IDs corresponding to “not available” and “recommended 1” in respective setup items are read, and images corresponding to “recommended 1” and “not available” are read (S803). An image indicating “not available” and that indicating “recommended 1” corresponding to respective setup items are displayed at neighboring positions of GUI components of the respective setup items displayed on the display screen (S804).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2004Publication date: January 27, 2005Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiromi Ikeda, Makoto Hirota
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Publication number: 20050010422Abstract: Provided are a speech processing apparatus and method capable of selecting a speech processing server connected to a network and a rule to be used in the server, and capable of readily performing highly accurate speech processing. In a speech processing system, a client 102 can be connected across a network 101 to at least one speech recognition server 110 for recognizing speech data. The client 102 receives speech data input from a speech input unit 106, and designates, from the speech recognition servers 110, a speech recognition server to be used to process the input speech. The client 102 transmits the input speech to the designated speech recognition server via a communication unit 103, and receives a processing result (recognition result) of the speech data processed by the speech recognition server by using a predetermined rule.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2004Publication date: January 13, 2005Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiromi Ikeda, Makoto Hirota