Patents by Inventor Masaya Soga

Masaya Soga 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: 11842534
    Abstract: Correction content is made learnable based on a correction operation performed by a user on an attribute setting screen in setting attribute information, such as a filename, based on a character string obtained by character recognition processing on a scan image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Publication number: 20230156138
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an information processing apparatus comprises one or more memories, and one or more processors in communication with the one or more memories, wherein the one or more processors are configured to generate data including information of one or more character strings recognized from a scanned document image, wherein the one or more character strings correspond respectively to one or more character areas detected from the scanned document image, generate a preview image with a character decoration to the one or more character areas of the scanned document image; and transmit the preview image, the data, and the file including the scanned document image together, wherein a same character decoration as each of the one or more character areas on the preview image is applied for a different one of the one or more character strings included in the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Patent number: 11252290
    Abstract: To enable a user to, in a case where the user scans a plurality of documents en bloc and acquires an image in units of documents by using a multi-cropping function and metadata thereon, reacquire them efficiently. A configuration is designed so that scan processing can be performed again in a preview display of the image corresponding to each document obtained by multi-cropping and it is made possible for a user to perform the scan again in a case where the user checks the scanned contents by the preview display and determines that the scan has not been performed accurately. Then, for the scanned image obtained by the re-scan, necessary analysis processing is performed only for the document for which it becomes necessary to perform the scan again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Patent number: 11252287
    Abstract: In an electronic device, such as an MFP, switching between display and nondisplay of a guidance for a user operation is implemented by a method that requires less time and effort. Switching between display and nondisplay of an operation guidance is performed in accordance with a touch operation on a UI screen without using a dedicated button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Publication number: 20210303895
    Abstract: Correction content is made learnable based on a correction operation performed by a user on an attribute setting screen in setting attribute information, such as a filename, based on a character string obtained by character recognition processing on a scan image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Patent number: 11062134
    Abstract: In a situation of setting a file name and the like by using a character string obtained by performing OCR processing to a scan image, a file name and the like can be immediately set with less calculation resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Publication number: 20200382654
    Abstract: To enable a user to, in a case where the user scans a plurality of documents en bloc and acquires an image in units of documents by using a multi-cropping function and metadata thereon, reacquire them efficiently. A configuration is designed so that scan processing can be performed again in a preview display of the image corresponding to each document obtained by multi-cropping and it is made possible for a user to perform the scan again in a case where the user checks the scanned contents by the preview display and determines that the scan has not been performed accurately. Then, for the scanned image obtained by the re-scan, necessary analysis processing is performed only for the document for which it becomes necessary to perform the scan again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Publication number: 20200336611
    Abstract: In an electronic device, such as an MFP, switching between display and nondisplay of a guidance for a user operation is implemented by a method that requires less time and effort. Switching between display and nondisplay of an operation guidance is performed in accordance with a touch operation on a UI screen without using a dedicated button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Patent number: 10652409
    Abstract: The apparatus according to the present invention includes: a display control unit configured to display scanned image represented by scanned image data on a preview screen; a generation unit configured to generate information relating to the scanned image data by using the character string of the character string area selected via the preview screen; and a holding unit configured to hold selection information capable of specifying the selected character string area, and the display control unit determines a target that is displayed in a selected state of the character string areas extracted by the extraction unit based on the selection information relating to past scanned image data, which is held by the holding unit, and determines a display range of the scanned image so that all the target character string areas are included within the preview screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Publication number: 20190230232
    Abstract: The apparatus according to the present invention includes: a display control unit configured to display scanned image represented by scanned image data on a preview screen; a generation unit configured to generate information relating to the scanned image data by using the character string of the character string area selected via the preview screen; and a holding unit configured to hold selection information capable of specifying the selected character string area, and the display control unit determines a target that is displayed in a selected state of the character string areas extracted by the extraction unit based on the selection information relating to past scanned image data, which is held by the holding unit, and determines a display range of the scanned image so that all the target character string areas are included within the preview screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Publication number: 20190065842
    Abstract: In a situation of setting a file name and the like by using a character string obtained by performing OCR processing to a scan image, a file name and the like can be immediately set with less calculation resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Patent number: 9965473
    Abstract: A system in which data stored in a first information processing apparatus is migrated to a second information processing apparatus, wherein the first information processing apparatus comprises: an export unit configured to export migration target data that is stored in a storing unit; and a recording unit configured to record time information indicating the time of exporting performed by the export unit, and the export unit furthermore compares the time information and information regarding an update date of the data stored in the storing unit and exports data updated at or subsequent to the time indicated by the time information as a difference migration target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Patent number: 9832160
    Abstract: A document management site registers a scan document, generates a URL of the scan document and transmits it to an image forming apparatus (an image processing apparatus), the image forming apparatus posts the registered scan document on an SNS site by using the URL of the scan document. The document management site generates a comment ticket that is control information for causing the image forming apparatus to transmit a comment about the posted content shared in the SNS site, and the image forming apparatus acquires the comment ticket from the document management site. Then, the image forming apparatus transmits the comment about the posted content and information relating to an electronic document for a comment according to the comment ticket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Patent number: 9588724
    Abstract: Image data is obtained by reading an image of a sheet by a reading unit, and a location of the sheet to which a predetermined image is to be attached is specified. The sheet that has been read is conveyed to a position of a printing unit, and the predetermined image is caused to be printed at the specified location of the sheet by the printing unit, and then the sheet on which the predetermined image has been printed is caused to be conveyed to a read position of the reading unit and read by the reading unit, and image data of the sheet is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Publication number: 20150347069
    Abstract: Image data is obtained by reading an image of a sheet by a reading unit, and a location of the sheet to which a predetermined image is to be attached is specified. The sheet that has been read is conveyed to a position of a printing unit, and the predetermined image is caused to be printed at the specified location of the sheet by the printing unit, and then the sheet on which the predetermined image has been printed is caused to be conveyed to a read position of the reading unit and read by the reading unit, and image data of the sheet is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Publication number: 20150032693
    Abstract: A system in which data stored in a first information processing apparatus is migrated to a second information processing apparatus, wherein the first information processing apparatus comprises: an export unit configured to export migration target data that is stored in a storing unit; and a recording unit configured to record time information indicating the time of exporting performed by the export unit, and the export unit furthermore compares the time information and information regarding an update date of the data stored in the storing unit and exports data updated at or subsequent to the time indicated by the time information as a difference migration target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Patent number: 8913277
    Abstract: In a case in which a document stored based on a sort setting from a multifunction peripheral is operated at a temporary work area, a piece of information thereof is stored as temporary work area setting. A piece of operation information at a preceding time is set as an index in the temporary work area by copying the document to the temporary work area based on the sort setting when the document is stored from the multifunction peripheral at a next time by being reflected also to the sort setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Publication number: 20140304345
    Abstract: A document management site registers a scan document, generates a URL of the scan document and transmits it to an image forming apparatus (an image processing apparatus), the image forming apparatus posts the registered scan document on an SNS site by using the URL of the scan document. The document management site generates a comment ticket that is control information for causing the image forming apparatus to transmit a comment about the posted content shared in the SNS site, and the image forming apparatus acquires the comment ticket from the document management site. Then, the image forming apparatus transmits the comment about the posted content and information relating to an electronic document for a comment according to the comment ticket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Patent number: 8831967
    Abstract: A workflow management apparatus including a workflow table in which tasks are associated with respective users and a task list that is a list of tasks corresponding to a user. The apparatus identifies the user in charge of a target task that is the target of processing in the workflow and determines whether or not the processing of the target task has been completed. If the apparatus has determined that the processing has not been completed, the apparatus determines whether or not the target task meets a predetermined condition. If the apparatus has determined that the predetermined condition is met, the target task is registered in the task list corresponding to the user in charge of the target task, and when the target task has been registered and is thus considered to have been processed, the apparatus advances to the processing of the next task in the workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaya Soga
  • Patent number: 8775504
    Abstract: In a case where a user scans a document by a MFP or the like, a plurality of specific folders are determined based upon a storage history of the documents which the user has scanned in the past to produce shortcuts of the document scanned at this time in the plurality of determined specific folders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaya Soga