Patents by Inventor Nobuhiro Kitabatake
Nobuhiro Kitabatake 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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Patent number: 11588916Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a notification information set from a cloud storage, a second obtaining unit configured to transmit user ID information of a user using the information processing apparatus to a cloud server, and to obtain notification ID information transmitted from the cloud server in response to the transmitted user ID information, and a determination unit configured to determine the notification information included in the notification information set obtained by the first obtaining unit and corresponding to the notification ID information obtained by the second obtaining unit as notification information of a display target.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuhiro Kitabatake
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Patent number: 11514631Abstract: A control method for an image processing apparatus includes one or a plurality of specified pieces of image data and a plurality of evaluated templates. A plurality of layout images are generated by arranging the specified one or plurality of pieces of image data with respect to one or a plurality of slots included in each of the plurality of templates. At least one layout image out of the plurality of layout images is specified at least based on evaluations of the plurality of templates. The specified at least one layout image is output.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takayuki Yamada, Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Shinjiro Hori, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Mizuki Hayakawa
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Publication number: 20220078255Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a notification information set from a cloud storage, a second obtaining unit configured to transmit user ID information of a user using the information processing apparatus to a cloud server, and to obtain notification ID information transmitted from the cloud server in response to the transmitted user ID information, and a determination unit configured to determine the notification information included in the notification information set obtained by the first obtaining unit and corresponding to the notification ID information obtained by the second obtaining unit as notification information of a display target.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventor: Nobuhiro Kitabatake
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Patent number: 11163503Abstract: A method for controlling an image processing apparatus including specifying one or a plurality of pieces of image data; generating a new template based on a feature of the specified one or plurality of pieces of image data, the generated new template including at least one or a plurality of slots for which the specified one or plurality of pieces of image data are laid out; and generating a layout image by laying out the specified one or plurality of pieces of image data to the one or plurality of slots included in the generated new template.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Mizuki Hayakawa, Takayuki Yamada, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Shinjiro Hori
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Publication number: 20210042066Abstract: A method for controlling an image processing apparatus including specifying one or a plurality of pieces of image data; generating a new template based on a feature of the specified one or plurality of pieces of image data, the generated new template including at least one or a plurality of slots for which the specified one or plurality of pieces of image data are laid out; and generating a layout image by laying out the specified one or plurality of pieces of image data to the one or plurality of slots included in the generated new template.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Mizuki Hayakawa, Takayuki Yamada, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Shinjiro Hori
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Publication number: 20210042976Abstract: A control method for an image processing apparatus includes one or a plurality of specified pieces of image data and a plurality of evaluated templates. A plurality of layout images are generated by arranging the specified one or plurality of pieces of image data with respect to one or a plurality of slots included in each of the plurality of templates. At least one layout image out of the plurality of layout images is specified at least based on evaluations of the plurality of templates. The specified at least one layout image is output.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Takayuki Yamada, Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Shinjiro Hori, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Mizuki Hayakawa
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Patent number: 10917286Abstract: A method for controlling an information processing apparatus includes setting a communication retry condition according to a type of a user operation, and performing communication based on the user operation. If communication based on the user operation has failed, a communication retry is performed based on the set communication retry condition.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuhiro Kitabatake
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Patent number: 10549526Abstract: An intermediate transfer body is efficiently heated, and thus, transfer properties of an image and durability of the intermediate transfer body are ensured. A heating unit heats the intermediate transfer body by using a plurality of heating sources which are positioned by being shifted, with respect to a rotation direction of the intermediate transfer body. The plurality of heating sources includes a first heating source and a second heating source. A degree of heating the intermediate transfer body by the second heating source is greater than a degree of heating the intermediate transfer body by the first heating source. The second heating source is positioned on an upstream side, with respect to the rotation direction of the intermediate transfer body, from the first heating source.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Inoue, Jun Yasutani, Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Yoichi Takada
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Publication number: 20200036572Abstract: A method for controlling an information processing apparatus includes setting a communication retry condition according to a type of a user operation, and performing communication based on the user operation. If communication based on the user operation has failed, a communication retry is performed based on the set communication retry condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventor: Nobuhiro Kitabatake
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Publication number: 20180345657Abstract: An intermediate transfer body is efficiently heated, and thus, transfer properties of an image and durability of the intermediate transfer body are ensured. A heating unit heats the intermediate transfer body by using a plurality of heating sources which are positioned by being shifted in a rotation direction of the intermediate transfer body. The plurality of heating sources includes a first heating source and a second heating source, a degree of heating the intermediate transfer body by the second heating source being higher than a degree of heating the intermediate transfer body by the first heating source. The second heating source is positioned on an upstream side in the rotation direction from the first heating source.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Koji Inoue, Jun Yasutani, Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Yoichi Takada
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Patent number: 9421761Abstract: If a plurality of ejection openings at identical positions in an array direction in which ejection openings are arrayed have experienced an ejection failure, complementary nozzles are selected so that the distance between ejection openings at both ends of the plurality of ejection openings in a cross direction crossing the array direction is the shortest.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2015Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Norihiro Kawatoko, Fumiko Suzuki, Kiichiro Takahashi, Yoshiyuki Honda
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Publication number: 20160159085Abstract: If a plurality of ejection openings at identical positions in an array direction in which ejection openings are arrayed have experienced an ejection failure, complementary nozzles are selected so that the distance between ejection openings at both ends of the plurality of ejection openings in a cross direction crossing the array direction is the shortest.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2015Publication date: June 9, 2016Inventors: Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Norihiro Kawatoko, Fumiko Suzuki, Kiichiro Takahashi, Yoshiyuki Honda
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Patent number: 9098795Abstract: In image processing, for a pixel with a density level smaller than a predetermined threshold value, the density level is corrected based on a parameter representing a degree of condensation of ink in a nozzle. For pixel with a density level equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold value, the density level is not corrected. This makes it possible to suppress an unevenness in density caused by the condensation of ink while suppressing blur at a contour of a character or a thin line.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Masuda, Yoshiyuki Honda, Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Hitoshi Nishikori, Norihiro Kawatoko
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Patent number: 9016821Abstract: Adequate correction processing is performed on image data based on the degree of ink concentration that occurs even. An image processing apparatus having: acquisition unit for acquiring multi-value image data and a first parameter related to the degree of concentration of ink; first generation unit for generating corrected data by correcting the multi-value data that is to be printed for the first pixel based on the multi-value data that is to printed in the first pixel and a first parameter; and second generation unit for generating the first parameter and a second parameter that indicates the degree of ink concentration of the plurality of nozzles when printing a second pixel that is printed by the nozzles next to the first pixel.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2012Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Masuda, Tomoki Yamamuro, Hitoshi Nishikori, Osamu Iwasaki, Norihiro Kawatoko, Atsuhiko Masuyama, Fumiko Suzuki, Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Mitsuhiro Ono
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Patent number: 8950844Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus is provided which minimizes the amount of inks consumed for preventing the sedimentation of ejected inks on the platen ink absorber and which can effectively prevent the sedimentation of inks. To this end, a comparison is made between the ejected volume of easily sedimenting inks and the ejected volume of sedimentation restraining inks in terms of ink components. If the ejected volume of the sedimentation restraining inks is found not enough, a required amount of sedimentation restraining ink is additionally ejected.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Takahashi, Yuji Hamasaki, Kei Yoshizawa, Yoshinori Nakagawa, Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Seiji Ogasawara
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Publication number: 20150002909Abstract: In image processing, for a pixel with a density level smaller than a predetermined threshold value, the density level is corrected based on a parameter representing a degree of condensation of ink in a nozzle. For pixel with a density level equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold value, the density level is not corrected. This makes it possible to suppress an unevenness in density caused by the condensation of ink while suppressing blur at a contour of a character or a thin line.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Satoshi Masuda, Yoshiyuki Honda, Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Hitoshi Nishikori, Norihiro Kawatoko
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Patent number: 8915579Abstract: An inkjet printing device includes a print head for ejecting ink, a carriage provided with the print head detachably mounted thereon for moving the print head, an ink tank placed outside the carriage for storing ink, an ink supply path for supplying ink from the ink tank to the print head, and a discharge unit for discharging ink in the print head. Before the print head is detached from the carriage, the discharge unit discharges the ink in the print head.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuji Hamasaki, Atsushi Takahashi, Yoshinori Nakagawa, Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Naomi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8727519Abstract: Provided are an inkjet printing apparatus and a method of controlling an inkjet printing apparatus whereby the performing of a suction discharge operation, for air bubbles that have penetrated inside an ink supply line, can be suppressed to a minimum necessary number of times, and whereby the ink discharge volume that accompanies air bubble suction discharge operations can be kept low. The volume of an air bubble that penetrates into an ink supply line is estimated on the basis of an elapsed time since the last air bubble suction discharge operation, and in addition, the volume of an air bubble that penetrates into the ink supply line during main tank installation is predicted. The suction discharge operation (choke suction operation) for suctioning out and discharging air bubbles is conducted when the sum of these estimated volumes becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinori Nakagawa, Yuji Hamasaki, Atsushi Takahashi, Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Kei Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 8672441Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus is provided which minimizes the amount of inks consumed for preventing the sedimentation of ejected inks on the platen ink absorber and which can effectively prevent the sedimentation of inks. To this end, a comparison is made between the ejected volume of easily sedimenting inks and the ejected volume of sedimentation restraining inks in terms of ink components. If the ejected volume of the sedimentation restraining inks is found not enough, a required amount of sedimentation restraining ink is additionally ejected.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Takahashi, Yuji Hamasaki, Kei Yoshizawa, Yoshinori Nakagawa, Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Seiji Ogasawara
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Patent number: 8529056Abstract: An apparatus includes a sheet feeding unit configured to feed sheets one by one from a storing unit, a coating unit configured to apply a coating liquid on a fed sheet, and a printing unit configured to perform printing on the coated sheet. The control unit controls timing to start a sheet feeding of a next page while a current page is being printed, depending on occurrence of event of temporary interruption or delay of printing operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2010Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinori Nakagawa, Osamu Iwasaki, Atsuhiko Masuyama, Fumiko Yano, Satoshi Masuda, Nobuhiro Kitabatake