Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Oya

Hiroshi Oya 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: 20240176570
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a plurality of displays including a first display displayed based on a state of the image processing apparatus being a first state, the first display including a predetermined code, and a second display displayed based on a state of the image processing apparatus being a second state, the second display not including the predetermined code, the plurality of displays being automatically switched in order, and a display control unit configured to control the display unit in such a manner that the first display is displayed longer than the second display among the plurality of displays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventor: HIROSHI OYA
  • Publication number: 20240165920
    Abstract: The protective film 10 is used by being attached to a resin substrate 21 in a case of performing heat bending on the resin substrate while heating the resin substrate. The protective film includes a base material layer and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer which is positioned between the base material layer and the resin substrate, and is adhered to the resin substrate. The base material layer is composed of a laminate including a first layer which is positioned on a side opposite to the pressure sensitive adhesive layer and a second layer which is positioned on a side of the pressure sensitive adhesive layer. The protective film has a trouser elongation strain at break of 300% or less in a direction inclined at 45° to both MD and TD of the protective film, which is measured in accordance with JIS K 7128-1 (1998).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oya, Tomoki Matsui, Atsushi Izumi
  • Patent number: 11956390
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of generating image data according to a setting compliant with PDF/A. A reading unit reads an image of a document and generates image data. A registration unit registers at least one setting value used by the reading unit in generating the image data. A setting unit sets whether to enable or disable a function that prevents a user from setting a setting value that does not comply with a PDF/A standard as a setting value used by the reading unit in generating the image data. And a change unit changes a setting value that does not comply with the PDF/A standard among the at least one setting value registered so as to comply with the PDF/A standard in enabling the function in a state where the registration unit registers the at least one setting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Oya
  • Patent number: 11906921
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that is capable of properly grasping a load that is imposed on the image forming apparatus by performing high-chroma printing. The image forming apparatus includes a printer engine that causes a heating rotary body to support and convey a sheet with a toner image formed thereon and performs an image formation on the sheet. The printer engine is controlled to perform the image formation on sheets in a first mode in which a toner image based on a piece of image data is formed with a first amount of toner, or a second mode in which a toner image based on the piece of image data is formed with a second amount of toner larger than the first amount of toner. A count function for counting the number of times of the image formation performed in the second mode, rather than the first mode, is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Oya
  • Publication number: 20230344947
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of generating image data according to a setting compliant with PDF/A. A reading unit reads an image of a document and generates image data. A registration unit registers at least one setting value used by the reading unit in generating the image data. A setting unit sets whether to enable or disable a function that prevents a user from setting a setting value that does not comply with a PDF/A standard as a setting value used by the reading unit in generating the image data. And a change unit changes a setting value that does not comply with the PDF/A standard among the at least one setting value registered so as to comply with the PDF/A standard in enabling the function in a state where the registration unit registers the at least one setting value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventor: Hiroshi OYA
  • Patent number: 11800024
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a character recognition unit, a storage unit, a display unit, and a reception unit. The character recognition unit is configured to recognize characters included in a plurality of pieces of image data. The storage unit is configured to perform control such that the plurality of pieces of image data is stored in a folder named with a character string including the characters recognized by the character recognition unit. The display unit is configured to display a screen. The reception unit is configured to receive a setting for a condition made by a user. In a case where the character string including the characters recognized by the character recognition unit does not satisfy the condition, the display unit displays a screen including information indicating image data in which the characters are recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Oya
  • Publication number: 20230011467
    Abstract: An optical sheet 10 of the present invention includes a laminate including a polarizing layer 4 containing at least one kind of a light absorbing agent and having a polarizing function, and a protective layer 1 laminated on the polarizing layer 4, in which in the polarizing layer 4, a value of a* is 0 or more and 30 or less and a value of b* is 0 or more and 30 or less in an L*a*b* color system defined by JIS Z 8781-4, and in the optical sheet 10, a size of a Q Blue value defined by Australian Standard Australia/New Zealand Standard 1067-2016 is 0.70 or more. Thus, even when the optical sheet is toned to brown, blue light can be distinguished with excellent distinguishability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nishino, Hiroshi Oya
  • Patent number: 11503174
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which is capable of appropriately producing displays using installed expansion application modules without using a window manager module. The image forming apparatus produces a display in accordance with a display instruction for at least one of the installed expansion application modules. When display instructions for the expansion application modules overlap each other, priorities for display are assigned based on starting conditions related to the expansion application modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroshi Oya, Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Publication number: 20220343624
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a character recognition unit, a storage unit, a display unit, and a reception unit. The character recognition unit is configured to recognize characters included in a plurality of pieces of image data. The storage unit is configured to perform control such that the plurality of pieces of image data is stored in a folder named with a character string including the characters recognized by the character recognition unit. The display unit is configured to display a screen. The reception unit is configured to receive a setting for a condition made by a user. In a case where the character string including the characters recognized by the character recognition unit does not satisfy the condition, the display unit displays a screen including information indicating image data in which the characters are recognized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventor: Hiroshi Oya
  • Publication number: 20220299925
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that is capable of properly grasping a load that is imposed on the image forming apparatus by performing high-chroma printing. The image forming apparatus includes a printer engine that causes a heating rotary body to support and convey a sheet with a toner image formed thereon and performs an image formation on the sheet. The printer engine is controlled to perform the image formation on sheets in a first mode in which a toner image based on a piece of image data is formed with a first amount of toner, or a second mode in which a toner image based on the piece of image data is formed with a second amount of toner larger than the first amount of toner. A count function for counting the number of times of the image formation performed in the second mode, rather than the first mode, is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventor: Hiroshi Oya
  • Patent number: 11403837
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a character recognition unit, a storage unit, a display unit, and a reception unit. The character recognition unit is configured to recognize characters included in a plurality of pieces of image data. The storage unit is configured to perform control such that the plurality of pieces of image data is stored in a folder named with a character string including the characters recognized by the character recognition unit. The display unit is configured to display a screen. The reception unit is configured to receive a setting for a condition made by a user. In a case where the character string including the characters recognized by the character recognition unit does not satisfy the condition, the display unit displays a screen including information indicating image data in which the characters are recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Oya
  • Publication number: 20210227089
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which is capable of appropriately producing displays using installed expansion application modules without using a window manager module. The image forming apparatus produces a display in accordance with a display instruction for at least one of the installed expansion application modules. When display instructions for the expansion application modules overlap each other, priorities for display are assigned based on starting conditions related to the expansion application modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroshi Oya, Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Patent number: 11054780
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a rotatable heating member and a rotatable pressing member, a cleaning mode executing portion, an information display portion, a mode setting portion, and a controller capable of outputting, when a predetermined condition is satisfied on the basis of an image formation history in a state in which setting for automatically executing an operation in a cleaning mode is not made, a display prompting execution of the operation in the cleaning mode and a display prompting setting for automatically executing the operation in the cleaning mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Oya
  • Patent number: 10999464
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which is capable of appropriately producing displays using installed expansion application modules without using a window manager module. The image forming apparatus produces a display in accordance with a display instruction for at least one of the installed expansion application modules. When display instructions for the expansion application modules overlap each other, priorities for display are assigned based on starting conditions related to the expansion application modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroshi Oya, Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Publication number: 20200410277
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a character recognition unit, a storage unit, a display unit, and a reception unit. The character recognition unit is configured to recognize characters included in a plurality of pieces of image data. The storage unit is configured to perform control such that the plurality of pieces of image data is stored in a folder named with a character string including the characters recognized by the character recognition unit. The display unit is configured to display a screen. The reception unit is configured to receive a setting for a condition made by a user. In a case where the character string including the characters recognized by the character recognition unit does not satisfy the condition, the display unit displays a screen including information indicating image data in which the characters are recognized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventor: Hiroshi Oya
  • Patent number: 10836127
    Abstract: The polarized laminate of the invention includes a polarized film, which has a first surface and a second surface that is a reverse side of the first surface; a first layer provided on a side of the first surface and formed of a first resin material including a polyamide; and a second layer provided on a side of the second surface and formed of a second resin material including a polyamide. When a Barcol hardness of the polarized laminate before and after immersion of the polarized laminate in distilled water at 80° C. for 15 minutes is measured according to JIS K 7060:1995, the Barcol hardness after the immersion is from 70% to 100% with respect to the Barcol hardness before the immersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oya, Kazufusa Onodera, Yohei Kamizaki
  • Patent number: 10791243
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a setting unit that sets a non-billing mode that is a mode of executing, without performing billing, a job that is set such that billing is performed for execution of the job, and a storage unit that stores a history of a job executed during a period in which the non-billing mode is set, wherein the stored history includes a cumulative number of pages obtained by printing performed by executing a job during a period in which the non billing mode is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Oya
  • Patent number: 10764463
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of running a predetermined application program on a firmware, which includes an operation unit, a memory configured to accept a user operation via the operation unit and store a user interface program which initializes display of the operation unit in accordance with an elapse of predetermined time, and a notifying unit configured to notify the firmware and the user interface program when the user operation via the operation unit is accepted, in which while the predetermined application program is running, the notifying unit notifies the application program of operation information based on the user operation via the firmware so that the user interface program does not initialize the display of the operation unit in accordance with the elapse of the predetermined time, and the notifying unit notifies the user interface program of predetermined notification which is not based on the user operation at predetermined timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasunori Shimakawa, Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroshi Oya
  • Patent number: 10609255
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that performs authentication of a user by a login program that operates on firmware and that, upon detection an abnormality of the login program, restricts execution of a job without causing the login program to terminate, and, while execution of the job is being restricted, controls to enable reception of an operation for disabling the login program via a reception unit for receiving an operation by a user via an operation unit, and, in accordance with the operation for disabling, causes the restricted job to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oya, Yasunori Shimakawa, Atsushi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20200073307
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a rotatable heating member and a rotatable pressing member, a cleaning mode executing portion, an information display portion, a mode setting portion, and a controller capable of outputting, when a predetermined condition is satisfied on the basis of an image formation history in a state in which setting for automatically executing an operation in a cleaning mode is not made, a display prompting execution of the operation in the cleaning mode and a display prompting setting for automatically executing the operation in the cleaning mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventor: Hiroshi Oya