Patents by Inventor Namihiro Mori

Namihiro Mori 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: 11620840
    Abstract: In the case of learning a printed character region selected by a user, it is determined whether a handwritten character region is present near the printed character region. If it is determined that the handwritten character region is present near the printed character region, information about the handwritten character region present near the printed character region and information about another printed character region present near the printed character region are learned in association with information about the selected printed character region. This makes it possible to appropriately determine a circled character string and a character string selected with a check mark from among a plurality of options during a scanned image analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Namihiro Mori
  • Patent number: 11616884
    Abstract: In an image processing system in which when a paper document is computerized, a file name or the like is set by using a recognized character string obtained by performing OCR processing, so that time and effort of a user when a plurality of documents is computerized en bloc is reduced. Learning data is generated by registering positional information relating to a recognized character string used for setting of a property relating to a scanned image in association with a document form of the scanned image. Then, in a case where the learning data is generated in response to setting of the property being performed for a first scanned image that is selected from a plurality of scanned images included in a list, a scanned image having a document form similar to a document form of the first scanned image is determined among other scanned images included in the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Namihiro Mori, Hirofumi Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11610417
    Abstract: To make it possible to perform registration by making the same the unit format of a value in a case where the value corresponding to a predetermined keyword within a business form is extracted and registered in a management server or the like. In a case where a value corresponding to a predetermined keyword in accordance with its type is extracted from a business form image, a character string indicating a unit thereof is acquired and after converting the unit into a unit format determined in a registration destination, extraction results are output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Namihiro Mori
  • Publication number: 20220417370
    Abstract: In an image processing system in which when a paper document is computerized, a file name or the like is set by using a recognized character string obtained by performing OCR processing, so that time and effort of a user when a plurality of documents is computerized en bloc is reduced. Learning data is generated by registering positional information relating to a recognized character string used for setting of a property relating to a scanned image in association with a document form of the scanned image. Then, in a case where the learning data is generated in response to setting of the property being performed for a first scanned image that is selected from a plurality of scanned images included in a list, a scanned image having a document form similar to a document form of the first scanned image is determined among other scanned images included in the list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Namihiro Mori, Hirofumi Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20220237933
    Abstract: In the case of learning a printed character region selected by a user, it is determined whether a handwritten character region is present near the printed character region. If it is determined that the handwritten character region is present near the printed character region, information about the handwritten character region present near the printed character region and information about another printed character region present near the printed character region are learned in association with information about the selected printed character region. This makes it possible to appropriately determine a circled character string and a character string selected with a check mark from among a plurality of options during a scanned image analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventor: Namihiro Mori
  • Patent number: 11297192
    Abstract: In an image processing system in which when a paper document is computerized, a file name or the like is set by using a recognized character string obtained by performing OCR processing, so that time and effort of a user when a plurality of documents is computerized en bloc is reduced. Learning data is generated by registering positional information relating to a recognized character string used for setting of a property relating to a scanned image in association with a document form of the scanned image. Then, in a case where the learning data is generated in response to setting of the property being performed for a first scanned image that is selected from a plurality of scanned images included in a list, a scanned image having a document form similar to a document form of the first scanned image is determined among other scanned images included in the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Namihiro Mori, Hirofumi Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20210227082
    Abstract: In an image processing system in which when a paper document is computerized, a file name or the like is set by using a recognized character string obtained by performing OCR processing, so that time and effort of a user when a plurality of documents is computerized en bloc is reduced. Learning data is generated by registering positional information relating to a recognized character string used for setting of a property relating to a scanned image in association with a document form of the scanned image. Then, in a case where the learning data is generated in response to setting of the property being performed for a first scanned image that is selected from a plurality of scanned images included in a list, a scanned image having a document form similar to a document form of the first scanned image is determined among other scanned images included in the list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Namihiro Mori, Hirofumi Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20210049359
    Abstract: To make it possible to perform registration by making the same the unit format of a value in a case where the value corresponding to a predetermined keyword within a business form is extracted and registered in a management server or the like. In a case where a value corresponding to a predetermined keyword in accordance with its type is extracted from a business form image, a character string indicating a unit thereof is acquired and after converting the unit into a unit format determined in a registration destination, extraction results are output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventor: Namihiro Mori
  • Patent number: 10747715
    Abstract: In the case where services of generation and saving of a document file are provided on a cloud system, suppression of the number of document files to be generated and maintenance of display performance are caused to coexist. A server apparatus that provides a generation service of a document file, the apparatus including: a communication unit configured to receive source data, which is a source of a document file, from a client apparatus; a file generation unit configured to generate a document file based on a plurality of resources included in the source data; and a saving unit configured to save a generated document file in a storage, and the file generation unit determines which of an in-line method and an external reference method is applied to each of a plurality of resources included in the source data in accordance with a situation of access to the storage and generate the document file based on results of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Namihiro Mori
  • Publication number: 20190332906
    Abstract: In a case where a size of a path object contained in drawing data is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, a drawing instruction to draw a line of a predetermined line width along an outline of the path object is added to the drawing data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventor: Namihiro Mori
  • Patent number: 9990572
    Abstract: To prevent the occurrence of a difference in printing results depending on a printer driver to be used despite that the drawing command originates from a GDI application and is the same. An information processing apparatus including a printer driver configured to generate print data compatible with a printing apparatus from input XPS format drawing data, and in the case where the input XPS format drawing data is XPS format drawing data converted by a conversion module from GDI format drawing data that is generated based on print processing of a GDI application and the XPS format drawing data includes a graphics drawing command specifying an object width of 0, the printer driver changes the graphics drawing command into a graphics drawing command specifying drawing with the minimum object width that can be represented by the printing apparatus and generates the print data based on the drawing data including the graphics drawing command after the change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Namihiro Mori
  • Publication number: 20180089202
    Abstract: In the case where services of generation and saving of a document file are provided on a cloud system, suppression of the number of document files to be generated and maintenance of display performance are caused to coexist. A server apparatus that provides a generation service of a document file, the apparatus including: a communication unit configured to receive source data, which is a source of a document file, from a client apparatus; a file generation unit configured to generate a document file based on a plurality of resources included in the source data; and a saving unit configured to save a generated document file in a storage, and the file generation unit determines which of an in-line method and an external reference method is applied to each of a plurality of resources included in the source data in accordance with a situation of access to the storage and generate the document file based on results of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventor: Namihiro Mori
  • Publication number: 20170316290
    Abstract: To prevent the occurrence of a difference in printing results depending on a printer driver to be used despite that the drawing command originates from a GDI application and is the same. An information processing apparatus including a printer driver configured to generate print data compatible with a printing apparatus from input XPS format drawing data, and in the case where the input XPS format drawing data is XPS format drawing data converted by a conversion module from GDI format drawing data that is generated based on print processing of a GDI application and the XPS format drawing data includes a graphics drawing command specifying an object width of 0, the printer driver changes the graphics drawing command into a graphics drawing command specifying drawing with the minimum object width that can be represented by the printing apparatus and generates the print data based on the drawing data including the graphics drawing command after the change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventor: Namihiro Mori
  • Patent number: 9754197
    Abstract: To prevent the occurrence of a difference in printing results depending on a printer driver to be used despite that the drawing command originates from a GDI application and is the same. An information processing apparatus including a printer driver configured to generate print data compatible with a printing apparatus from input XPS format drawing data, and in the case where the input XPS format drawing data is XPS format drawing data converted by a conversion module from GDI format drawing data that is generated based on print processing of a GDI application and the XPS format drawing data includes a graphics drawing command specifying an object width of 0, the printer driver changes the graphics drawing command into a graphics drawing command specifying drawing with the minimum object width that can be represented by the printing apparatus and generates the print data based on the drawing data including the graphics drawing command after the change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Namihiro Mori
  • Publication number: 20170116501
    Abstract: To prevent the occurrence of a difference in printing results depending on a printer driver to be used despite that the drawing command originates from a GDI application and is the same. An information processing apparatus including a printer driver configured to generate print data compatible with a printing apparatus from input XPS format drawing data, and in the case where the input XPS format drawing data is XPS format drawing data converted by a conversion module from GDI format drawing data that is generated based on print processing of a GDI application and the XPS format drawing data includes a graphics drawing command specifying an object width of 0, the printer driver changes the graphics drawing command into a graphics drawing command specifying drawing with the minimum object width that can be represented by the printing apparatus and generates the print data based on the drawing data including the graphics drawing command after the change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventor: Namihiro Mori
  • Patent number: 9619306
    Abstract: An information processing device can execute a program composed of a plurality of modules including a self-module that is under the management of a module management unit and the other module that is not under the management. The module management unit 7 performs registration of a function to be notified of by a signal when an exception occurs in a program. When the signal is received if an exception occurs, exception processing is executed. At the time of loading a certain module in a process, if a function of the other module is already registered, the module management unit stores information of the function, and performs function registration to execute the exception processing with a function of the self-module instead. The same signal as the signal that the registered function receives is transmitted to the stored function of the other module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Namihiro Mori
  • Publication number: 20160274957
    Abstract: An information processing device can execute a program composed of a plurality of modules including a self-module that is under the management of a module management unit and the other module that is not under the management. The module management unit 7 performs registration of a function to be notified of by a signal when an exception occurs in a program. When the signal is received if an exception occurs, exception processing is executed. At the time of loading a certain module in a process, if a function of the other module is already registered, the module management unit stores information of the function, and performs function registration to execute the exception processing with a function of the self-module instead. The same signal as the signal that the registered function receives is transmitted to the stored function of the other module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Namihiro Mori
  • Patent number: 9383949
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a providing unit, a management unit, an input unit, and a notification control unit. The providing unit provides at least a first screen and a second screen from an application. The management unit manages the first screen as a screen for forced notification. The input unit inputs information to be displayed in a screen. In a case where the second screen is in an active state, the notification control unit notifies both of the first screen and the second screen of the information. In a case where the second screen is in an inactive state, the notification control unit notifies the first screen of the information and does not notify the second screen of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Namihiro Mori
  • Publication number: 20150199153
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a providing unit, a management unit, an input unit, and a notification control unit. The providing unit provides at least a first screen and a second screen from an application. The management unit manages the first screen as a screen for forced notification. The input unit inputs information to be displayed in a screen. In a case where the second screen is in an active state, the notification control unit notifies both of the first screen and the second screen of the information. In a case where the second screen is in an inactive state, the notification control unit notifies the first screen of the information and does not notify the second screen of the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventor: Namihiro Mori
  • Patent number: 8867072
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected to a print apparatus via a network, comprises: receiving unit configured to receive a plurality of jobs; determination unit configured to determine a priority level of each of the plurality of jobs in an order in which jobs are sent to the print apparatus, based on information of a post-processing step which corresponds to each of the plurality of jobs and is performed after the plurality of jobs are printed by the print apparatus; and sending unit configured to send the plurality of jobs to the print apparatus in accordance with the priority levels in which jobs are sent, which are determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Namihiro Mori