Patents by Inventor Kamon Hasuo

Kamon Hasuo 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: 6862603
    Abstract: A file management system, a file management method, and a storage medium by which a higher productivity is achieved by efficient document indexing. In copying index data, a copy is created from text data of an application such as a text editor or a spread sheet or from index data displayed on a document list of a document management system. A range for pasting index data is selected by a pointing device or keyboard operation. The selected range includes a record as a search result, a record in which a new document is recorded, and a pre-index record. If a user gives an instruction on pasting index data, the obtained index data is checked to be recordable data for a field of the selected cell. If it is recordable data, index data record processing is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Nakajima, Kamon Hasuo, Masashi Yahara, Ryuichi Masuda, Tsutomu Murayama
  • Patent number: 6594650
    Abstract: A document management system having enhanced operability so that a plurality of documents can be processed at a time by integrating a search operation, an image recording operation, and an index input operation. In the document management system of the present invention, input search conditions are transmitted to a search portion, which finds out a document satisfying the search conditions from a document data base via an index data recording management portion and outputs the result to a document list control portion. The document list control portion prepares a document list from the result and displays it in a document list display portion. For a new record processing, image data on a manuscript read by a scanner is output to an image control portion. The image control portion records the image data into an image recording portion and reports new document creating information to the document list control portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kamon Hasuo, Masashi Yahara, Ryuichi Masuda, Tsutomu Murayama, Satoru Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20030105776
    Abstract: A document management system having enhanced operability so that a plurality of documents can be processed at a time by integrating a search operation, an image recording operation, and an index input operation. In the document management system of the present invention, input search conditions are transmitted to a search portion, which finds out a document satisfying the search conditions from a document data base via an index data recording management portion and outputs the result to a document list control portion. The document list control portion prepares a document list from the result and displays it in a document list display portion. For a new record processing, image data on a manuscript read by a scanner is output to an image control portion. The image control portion records the image data into an image recording portion and reports new document creating information to the document list control portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: KAMON HASUO, MASASHI YAHARA, RYUICHI MASUDA, TSUTOMU MURAYAMA, SATORU NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 6462761
    Abstract: An image filing system comprises a display section which can display a plurality of retrieval images indicative of retrieval information to retrieve images stored in a memory medium, a selecting section to select a desired one of the retrieval images displayed on the display section, a retrieving section to retrieve the image associated with the retrieval image from the memory medium on the basis of the retrieval image selected by the selecting section and means for making the image stored in the memory medium which was associated with the first retrieval image selected by the selecting section associate with the second retrieval image selected by the selecting section; and in this system the associating means erases the first retrieval image from the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kamon Hasuo
  • Publication number: 20020032759
    Abstract: An image filing system comprises a display section which can display a plurality of retrieval images indicative of retrieval information to retrieve images stored in a memory medium, a selecting section to select a desired one of the retrieval images displayed on the display section, a retrieving section to retrieve the image associated with the retrieval image from the memory medium on the basis of the retrieval image selected by the selecting section and
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 1994
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Inventor: KAMON HASUO
  • Patent number: 6336144
    Abstract: After image data received from a facsimile on the transmission side through a public telephone circuit was stored into a disk, the image data is read out from the disk, index information is added to the image data, and the resultant data is preserved into an image file apparatus through an external interface, thereby enabling the image data received by a facsimile apparatus to be searched in the image file apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Otani, Kazuo Kashiwagi, Kamon Hasuo
  • Patent number: 6185404
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus (or method) includes a reception unit (or step) for receiving digital color image data through an interface from an external apparatus, and a discrimination unit (or step) for discriminating, from the received digital color image data, whether an image represented by the digital color image data is a specific image. A control unit (or step) controls printing using the color image data in accordance with a discriminated result by the discrimination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kamon Hasuo, Ryuichi Masuda, Yuichi Sato, Ken-Ichi Outa
  • Patent number: 6154779
    Abstract: After image data received from a facsimile on the transmission side through a public telephone circuit was stored into a disk, the image data is read out from the disk, index information is added to the image data, and the resultant data is preserved into an image file apparatus through an external interface, thereby enabling the image data received by a facsimile apparatus to be searched in the image file apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Otani, Kazuo Kashiwagi, Kamon Hasuo
  • Patent number: 5881214
    Abstract: There is disclosed an image searching apparatus capable of searching an image stored in a memory medium, corresponding to a search image, selected from the plural search images registered in advance. The apparatus can generate a synthesized image, including the registered search images, together with marking areas, to be marked by the operator for selecting the search image, and prints the synthesized as a marking sheet which is to be marked by the operator and then read by the apparatus again, whereby the apparatus effects the image search, based on the marking provided on the marking sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Morisawa, Kamon Hasuo, Kazuo Ohtani, Ryuichi Masuda, Hirokazu Higuchi, Takeshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5765089
    Abstract: A discrimination device and method that generates a control signal used for controlling a color image processing apparatus that processes color image data in a first color space and generates color image data in a second color space different from the first space. The color image data in the first color space is input and then a discrimination is performed to determine whether an image represented by the input color image data includes a specific image. A control signal is generated based on the discrimination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kamon Hasuo, Ryuichi Masuda, Yuichi Sato, Ken-Ichi Outa
  • Patent number: 5742808
    Abstract: An electronic data filing apparatus is disclosed, which includes a unit for displaying an index image for retrieval of data stored in a data storing medium, a unit for storing relative data representing a relation between the data and the index image, a unit for selecting at least one index image from a plurality of index images displayed on the displaying unit, a unit for selecting at least one index-image from a plurality of index images displayed on the displaying unit, and a unit for executing retrieval of data according to index image selected by the selecting unit and relative data stored in the storing unit. When a plurality of index images are selected by the selecting unit the retrieval means executes retrieval of data with a combination of relative data corresponding to individual selected index images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1998
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kamon Hasuo
  • Patent number: 5708513
    Abstract: A large-size (A3-size) original is folded into two small-size (A4-size) portions. Images on the surfaces of the respective portions are read by image reading units. Image data output from the image reading units are stored in a memory. A detection unit detects end positions of the read images, and skew of each of the images is corrected. An image synthesis unit synthesizes the image data of the respective surfaces based on the output of the detection unit to provide the original single image. Thus, it is possible to read even a large-size original.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kamon Hasuo, Takeshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5583614
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and method includes a scanner for scanning an original and generating electrical image data representing an image of the original to be processed, a processor for processing the electrical image data supplied by the scanner, and a device for determining whether the original represented by the electrical image data contains a specified image based on the electrical image data supplied by the scanner. The scanner scans the original a plurality of times and the device performs its determination operation on the same original a plurality of times, once for each scanning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kamon Hasuo, Ryuichi Masuda, Yuichi Sato, Ken-Ichi Outa
  • Patent number: 5572726
    Abstract: An electronic data filing apparatus is disclosed, which includes a unit for displaying an index image for retrieval of data stored in a data storing medium, a unit for storing relative data representing a relation between the data and the index image, a unit for selecting at least one index image from a plurality of index images displayed on the displaying unit, a unit for selecting at least one index image from a plurality of index images displayed on the displaying unit, and a unit for executing retrieval of data according to index image selected by the selecting unit and relative data stored in the storing unit. When a plurality of index images are selected by the selecting unit the retrieval means executes retrieval of data with a combination of relative data corresponding to individual selected index images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kamon Hasuo
  • Patent number: 5434649
    Abstract: A device that controls a color image processing apparatus receives color component signals representing an original, and extracts a pattern having a predetermined color from the original on the basis of the color component signals. The device determines whether the pattern includes a predetermined image registered in advance, and generates a control signal for controlling an image processing of the original on the basis of the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kamon Hasuo, Ryuichi Masuda, Yuichi Sato, Ken-ichi Outa
  • Patent number: 5363504
    Abstract: A filing method and apparatus for an electronic filing apparatus. The method includes the steps of reading out index images from an index image storage and displaying the read-out index images on a display having a plurality of display locations. Each of the index images is an image representative of index information used for retrieving image information to be stored in a storage medium and capable of being used as index information for a plurality of image information. Desired index images are selected from among the plurality of index images displayed at the plurality of display locations and the image information to be stored in the storage medium is input and stored in a vacant area of the storage medium. An index file is formed indicating a relationship between the index images selected and a storage address of the image information stored in the storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kamon Hasuo
  • Patent number: 5321470
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus for processing an input image and recording the image on a recording medium, and particularly a color copying apparatus which permits color copying of an original, and makes it possible to discriminate a specific original for the sake of prevention of forgery of a banknote, a negotiable instrument, or the like. The specific original is provided with copying processing which is different from that provided for an ordinary original.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kamon Hasuo, Ryuichi Masuda, Yuichi Sato, Ken-Ichi Outa
  • Patent number: 5296966
    Abstract: An electronic filing system includes a conveying section to convey an original put on an original setting plate to a reading position, a reading section to read an image of the original at the reading position, a manual feed mode control means device for executing a manual feed mode to convey and read the original each time it is detected that the original has been set onto the original setting plate, a continuous feed mode control means device for executing a continuous feed mode to continuously convey and continuously read a plurality of originals which were piled on the original setting plate, a mode selecting circuit to select either one of the manual feed mode and the continuous feed mode and a memory section to store the image which was read by the reading section together with index information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kamon Hasuo