Patents by Inventor Noriyuki Takei

Noriyuki Takei 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: 11595567
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a finder, a proximity detection unit configured to detect a proximity of an object to the finder, a receiving unit configured to receive a line-of-sight input, and a control unit configured to perform control to prohibit, after the proximity of the object is detected by the proximity detection unit, a specific function based on a position input by the line-of-sight input of the user from being performed until a first period of time has elapsed even in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, and allow, after the proximity of the object is detected by the proximity detection unit and the first period of time has elapsed, the specific function based on the position input by the line-of-sight input of the user to be performed, in response to satisfaction of the predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noriyuki Takei
  • Publication number: 20220124243
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a finder, a proximity detection unit configured to detect a proximity of an object to the finder, a receiving unit configured to receive a line-of-sight input, and a control unit configured to perform control to prohibit, after the proximity of the object is detected by the proximity detection unit, a specific function based on a position input by the line-of-sight input of the user from being performed until a first period of time has elapsed even in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, and allow, after the proximity of the object is detected by the proximity detection unit and the first period of time has elapsed, the specific function based on the position input by the line-of-sight input of the user to be performed, in response to satisfaction of the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventor: Noriyuki Takei
  • Patent number: 10856427
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus which reduces radiation noise. A housing member mounted on a circuit board fixed to a casing houses a recording medium. A metal sheet member is electrically connected to the circuit board. The housing member has a recording medium connecting clock terminal that is connected to the recording medium housed in the housing member, and a board connecting clock terminal that is connected to the circuit board. The metal sheet member has a flat portion that faces the housing member across a predetermined space, and as seen in a direction perpendicular to a flat surface of the flat portion, an area of the flat portion which faces the board connecting clock terminal is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nishino, Noriyuki Takei
  • Publication number: 20200214150
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus which reduces radiation noise. A housing member mounted on a circuit board fixed to a casing houses a recording medium. A metal sheet member is electrically connected to the circuit board. The housing member has a recording medium connecting clock terminal that is connected to the recording medium housed in the housing member, and a board connecting clock terminal that is connected to the circuit board. The metal sheet member has a flat portion that faces the housing member across a predetermined space, and as seen in a direction perpendicular to a flat surface of the flat portion, an area of the flat portion which faces the board connecting clock terminal is opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nishino, Noriyuki Takei
  • Patent number: 8355154
    Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium having a printer driver recorded thereon, the printer driver causing a computer to operate as a computer including: a setting reception unit that displays a first user interface and receives settings of print settings; and a print data generation unit that generates print data according to the set print settings, wherein, when settings of a plurality of print copies are received via the first user interface, the setting reception unit displays a second user interface and receives settings for dividing the number of print copies into groups per an arbitrary number of copies, wherein, when an instruction for settings print settings to one of the groups is received via the second user interface, the setting reception unit displays a third user interface and receives settings of the print settings of the corresponding group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Noriyuki Takei
  • Patent number: 8305626
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium in which a printer driver is stored is provided. The printer driver causes a computer to operate as a computing apparatus including: a memorizing unit that memorizes a plurality of set value combinations in each of which a set value is associated with each setting item; a selection accepting unit that displays information indicating the set value combinations in a selectable manner and accepts selection of at least one set value combination; and a set value changing unit that applies, to a part of setting items for which values have already been set, a set value for a setting item included in the set value combination the selection of which has been accepted by the selection accepting unit so as to effect a change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Noriyuki Takei
  • Publication number: 20120236361
    Abstract: For every execution of printing, a first print setting therefor is recorded into a log; as a result of a determination as to whether a second print setting regarding print data targeted for printing is recorded in the log, or not, if it is determined that the second print setting is recorded in the log, and further, the second print setting is not registered in a registration section, a message for advising a user to perform registration of the second print setting into the registration section is displayed; and if it is determined that the second print setting is already registered in the registration section, a message for notifying a user of a fact that the second print setting is already registered in the registration section is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki TAKEI, Shuji WAKUMOTO, Satoru NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20110216361
    Abstract: A printer driver searches for local printers connected to a computer and network printers connected via a network to the computer by including the local printers and network printers in a search criteria. In the case where a local printer has been found, the local printer is selected as a printer that is to execute printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru NAKAYAMA, Shuji WAKUMOTO, Noriyuki TAKEI
  • Publication number: 20110216355
    Abstract: A computer readable recording medium recording a printer driver in which the printer driver makes a computer function as a device including a search unit which searches for printers that can be used for printing and a printer information storage unit which stores predetermined information relating to at least some of the printers out of the searched printers, in which the search unit executes searches having the printers of which the predetermined information is stored as a search range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki TAKEI, Shuji WAKUMOTO, Satoru NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20100259786
    Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium having a printer driver recorded thereon, the printer driver causing a computer to operate as a computer including: a setting reception unit that displays a first user interface and receives settings of print settings; and a print data generation unit that generates print data according to the set print settings, wherein, when settings of a plurality of print copies are received via the first user interface, the setting reception unit displays a second user interface and receives settings for dividing the number of print copies into groups per an arbitrary number of copies, wherein, when an instruction for settings print settings to one of the groups is received via the second user interface, the setting reception unit displays a third user interface and receives settings of the print settings of the corresponding group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyuki Takei
  • Patent number: 7752347
    Abstract: The present invention provides a computer readable medium recording a program for providing information relating to an optional device installable on an apparatus such as a printer, the program being an information providing program for providing information, to a user in an easily understandable form, related to an installable optional device that is presently uninstalled. In the information providing program for causing an information providing device to execute a processing of providing information relating to an optional device installable on a target apparatus, the information providing device is caused to execute: acquiring information relating to the installation status of the optional device on the target apparatus and determining an uninstalled optional device, which is an installable optional device that has not been installed; and displaying an image representing the determined uninstalled optional device to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Noriyuki Takei
  • Publication number: 20100097654
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium in which a printer driver is stored is provided. The printer driver causes a computer to operate as a computing apparatus including: a memorizing unit that memorizes a plurality of set value combinations in each of which a set value is associated with each setting item; a selection accepting unit that displays information indicating the set value combinations in a selectable manner and accepts selection of at least one set value combination; and a set value changing unit that applies, to a part of setting items for which values have already been set, a set value for a setting item included in the set value combination the selection of which has been accepted by the selection accepting unit so as to effect a change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyuki TAKEI
  • Publication number: 20080244434
    Abstract: An information service program which causes an information service apparatus perform processing of information service about optional devices which are mountable in an object apparatus, the processing including a process of determining present configuration of the object apparatus including mounted optional devices which are mounted in the object apparatus, and non-mounted optional devices which are optional devices which are not mounted but are mountable in the object apparatus, by acquiring information about mounting status of the optional devices in the object apparatus and a process of displaying an appearance image of the object apparatus, which is to be configured when the non-mounted object devices are further additionally mounted in the object apparatus, to a user so that the user can discriminate between the present configuration of the object apparatus and the non-mounted optional devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyuki TAKEI
  • Publication number: 20080244435
    Abstract: The present invention provides a computer readable medium recording an information providing program for providing information relating to an optional device installable on an apparatus such as a printer, the program being capable of providing the information on an installable optional device that is presently uninstalled to a user in an easily understandable form. In the information providing program causing the information providing device to execute: acquiring information relating to the installation status of the optional device on the target apparatus and determining an uninstalled optional device, which is an installable optional device that has not been installed; determining whether the uninstalled optional device can be additionally installed in the installation status in the target apparatus; and displaying an image representing the uninstalled optional device to a user so that possibility or impossibility of the additional installing can be identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyuki Takei
  • Publication number: 20080235408
    Abstract: The present invention provides a computer readable medium recording a program for providing information relating to an optional device installable on an apparatus such as a printer, the program being an information providing program for providing information, to a user in an easily understandable form, related to an installable optional device that is presently uninstalled. In the information providing program for causing an information providing device to execute a processing of providing information relating to an optional device installable on a target apparatus, the information providing device is caused to execute: acquiring information relating to the installation status of the optional device on the target apparatus and determining an uninstalled optional device, which is an installable optional device that has not been installed; and displaying an image representing the determined uninstalled optional device to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyuki TAKEI
  • Patent number: 5611977
    Abstract: A method for forming an armrest, wherein there are provided a three-dimensional box-like trim cover assembly having slit and hole formed therein, a frame and a shaft separate from the frame. In the method, the frame is inserted through the slit into the inside of the trim cover assembly, and then, the shaft is inserted through the hole into the same inside of trim cover assembly, so that the shaft is connected to the frame at a predetermined position within the trim cover assembly via a connecting element. Thereafter, such incomplete armrest unit is subject to foaming in a foaming die, to thereby form a complete armrest. The trim cover assembly includes a high-density foam layer and an impregnation preventive film having plural ventilation holes formed therein in order to prevent impregnation of liquid foaming material into a foam wadding layer of trim cover assembly and attain air permeability of armrest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: Tachi-S Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Noriyuki Takei