Patents by Inventor Satoshi Totsuka

Satoshi Totsuka 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).

  • Publication number: 20240078831
    Abstract: To determine the state of a subject person with a simple structure, an image determining device includes: an imaging unit that captures an image from a first direction, the image including the subject person; a first detector that detects size information from the image, the size information being about the subject person in the first direction; a second detector that detects position-related information, the position-related information being different from the information detected by the first detector; and a determining unit that determines the state of the subject person, based on a result of the detection performed by the first detector and a result of the detection performed by the second detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Masahiro NEI, Isao TOTSUKA, Tomoyuki MATSUYAMA, Masamitsu YANAGIHARA, Satoshi HAGIWARA, Masakazu SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230412746
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printing apparatus that prints an image on a sheet, a sheet processer that executes sheet processing, and a sheet detection sensor that detects a sheet on which the sheet processing is performed not in association with the printing of an image, where the printing of an image is restricted in response to detection of a sheet by the sheet detection sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro Mutsuno, Masaki Kashiwagi, Akinori Takeo, Satoshi Totsuka
  • Patent number: 11792344
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printing apparatus that prints an image on a sheet, a sheet processer that executes sheet processing, and a sheet detection sensor that detects a sheet on which the sheet processing is performed not in association with the printing of an image, where the printing of an image is restricted in response to detection of a sheet by the sheet detection sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Mutsuno, Masaki Kashiwagi, Akinori Takeo, Satoshi Totsuka
  • Patent number: 11546482
    Abstract: A document reading apparatus having a display unit and a placement section on which plural documents is to be placed includes a conveyance unit and a reading unit. The conveyance unit conveys a document placed on the placement section. The reading unit reads a document conveyed by the conveyance unit and generates image data. Based on at least a reading mode being set on the document reading apparatus of reading a plurality of documents of a plurality of different sizes in a single job by the reading unit, first prompting information that prompts placement of the plurality of documents at a center of the placement section in a direction perpendicular to a document conveyance direction in which the conveyance unit conveys the plurality of documents is displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoshi Totsuka
  • Patent number: 11503181
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus which is capable of preventing occurrence of a paper jam and poor stacking during conveyance of originals. The image reading apparatus sets a type of an original, conveys the original based on the set type of the original, and reads an image on the conveyed original. An original detecting sensor detects placement of the original on an original tray. An LCD touch panel displays an object for setting a type of the original in response to the detection by the original detecting sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Totsuka
  • Publication number: 20220174165
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printing apparatus that prints an image on a sheet, a sheet processer that executes sheet processing, and a sheet detection sensor that detects a sheet on which the sheet processing is performed not in association with the printing of an image, where the printing of an image is restricted in response to detection of a sheet by the sheet detection sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiro Mutsuno, Masaki Kashiwagi, Akinori Takeo, Satoshi Totsuka
  • Publication number: 20220021777
    Abstract: A document reading apparatus having a display unit and a placement section on which plural documents is to be placed includes a conveyance unit and a reading unit. The conveyance unit conveys a document placed on the placement section. The reading unit reads a document conveyed by the conveyance unit and generates image data. Based on at least a reading mode being set on the document reading apparatus of reading a plurality of documents of a plurality of different sizes in a single job by the reading unit, first prompting information that prompts placement of the plurality of documents at a center of the placement section in a direction perpendicular to a document conveyance direction in which the conveyance unit conveys the plurality of documents is displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventor: Satoshi Totsuka
  • Patent number: 11082577
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit that performs printing based on a job, a setting unit that sets a setting specifying whether billing is to be performed for printing performed by the printing unit, and a control unit that, in a case where printing performed by the printing unit is interrupted due to occurrence of a job interruption event, if a setting specifying that billing is not to be performed is set by the setting unit, executes cancellation of the job when a predetermined time period elapses without a cause of the interruption being cleared and, if a setting specifying that billing is to be performed is set by the setting unit, does not execute the cancellation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoshi Totsuka
  • Publication number: 20210234988
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus which is capable of preventing occurrence of a paper jam and poor stacking during conveyance of originals. The image reading apparatus sets a type of an original, conveys the original based on the set type of the original, and reads an image on the conveyed original. An original detecting sensor detects placement of the original on an original tray. An LCD touch panel displays an object for setting a type of the original in response to the detection by the original detecting sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventor: Satoshi Totsuka
  • Patent number: 11010115
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of, even both of reservation printing and pre-printing paper sheet confirmation are set for one print job, preventing a printing process from substantially being halted due to a confliction between these two settings. The image processing apparatus is capable of generating a print job, a time request and a print medium confirmation request. The image processing apparatus performs: a first process, which exclusively generates one of the time request and the print medium confirmation request, generates the print job including the generated one request, and performs a process corresponding to the generated one request prior to printing based on the print job; or a second process, which generates the time request and the print medium confirmation request, generates both of the two request, and exclusively performs one of the two requests prior to printing based on the print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi Mori, Aya Kasahara, Masaki Kashiwagi, Satoshi Totsuka
  • Patent number: 11006018
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus which is capable of preventing occurrence of a paper jam and poor stacking during conveyance of originals. The image reading apparatus sets a type of an original, conveys the original based on the set type of the original, and reads an image on the conveyed original. An original detecting sensor detects placement of the original on an original tray. An LCD touch panel displays an object for setting a type of the original in response to the detection by the original detecting sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Totsuka
  • Patent number: 10999461
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes an original stacking portion, an original feeding portion, an image reading portion, a shading operation portion, and a receiving portion. The shading operation portion acquires a shading correction value by causing the image reading portion to read a white reference member with a predetermined reading resolution when an original is stacked on the original stacking portion. When a resolution change instruction is received before reading of the original is started, depending on the resolution change instruction, the shading operation portion acquires a shading correction value by causing again the image reading portion to read the white reference member with a changed reading resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoshi Totsuka
  • Publication number: 20210127027
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printing apparatus that prints an image on a sheet, a sheet processer that executes sheet processing, and a sheet detection sensor that detects a sheet on which the sheet processing is performed not in association with the printing of an image, where the printing of an image is restricted in response to detection of a sheet by the sheet detection sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Masahiro Mutsuno, Masaki Kashiwagi, Akinori Takeo, Satoshi Totsuka
  • Patent number: 10979599
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit, a storage unit, a login state determination unit, and a control unit. The receiving unit receives a facsimile-received document via a network. The storage unit stores the facsimile-received document received by the receiving unit in a reception box. The login state determination unit determines whether a user to be charged is logged in, a user who does not need to be charged is logged in, or no user is logged in. The control unit controls the storage unit to store the facsimile-received document in the reception box instead of outputting the facsimile-received document when the receiving unit receives the facsimile-received document and if the login state determination unit determines that no user is logged in or a user to be charged is logged in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Totsuka, Akinori Takeo, Masahiro Mutsuno
  • Patent number: 10911626
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printing apparatus that prints an image on a sheet, a sheet processor that executes sheet processing, and a sheet detection sensor that detects a sheet on which the sheet processing is performed not in association with the printing of an image, where the printing of an image is restricted in response to detection of a sheet by the sheet detection sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Mutsuno, Masaki Kashiwagi, Akinori Takeo, Satoshi Totsuka
  • Patent number: 10866775
    Abstract: A printing apparatus is provided to prevent, when an error has occurred while a print job is being executed, information leakage without significantly reducing usability. A printing apparatus capable of storing a plurality of print jobs identifies, when the error has occurred while the print job is being executed, another print job which is printable, among the stored other print jobs. The printing apparatus cancels the print job, which is being executed when the error has occurred and the identified print job, based on a predetermined time which has elapsed in a state where an error is occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Totsuka
  • Patent number: 10691388
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus forms an image on a printing medium based on a print job, and includes at least one memory that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the instructions. The instructions, when executed, cause the image forming apparatus to perform operations including performing control so that in a case where a print job associated with a user charged by using a charging device is printed, an already-printed job for which printing has been completed is deleted after the printing has been completed, and performing control so that in a case where a print job associated with a user not charged by using the charging device is printed, the already-printed job for which printing has been completed is not deleted after the printing has been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Totsuka
  • Publication number: 20200137259
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus which is capable of preventing occurrence of a paper jam and poor stacking during conveyance of originals. The image reading apparatus sets a type of an original, conveys the original based on the set type of the original, and reads an image on the conveyed original. An original detecting sensor detects placement of the original on an original tray. An LCD touch panel displays an object for setting a type of the original in response to the detection by the original detecting sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Satoshi Totsuka
  • Patent number: 10477044
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to, during execution of a copy job for which a binding process setting is not set, detecting that a conveyed document is bound and allowing a user to perform the binding process setting before the copy job is executed again. A control method for controlling an image forming apparatus includes conveying a document placed on a document tray, reading an image on the conveyed document, printing the read image on a sheet, and binding the sheet on which the image is printed, and further includes detecting that the conveyed document is a bound document, according to the detection, suspending the conveyance of the document, and displaying a screen for prompting a user to start reading of the document of which the conveyance is suspended, wherein the screen is a screen capable of receiving a setting of a binding process to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoshi Totsuka
  • Publication number: 20190317712
    Abstract: A printing apparatus is provided to prevent, when an error has occurred while a print job is being executed, information leakage without significantly reducing usability. A printing apparatus capable of storing a plurality of print jobs identifies, when the error has occurred while the print job is being executed, another print job which is printable, among the stored other print jobs. The printing apparatus cancels the print job, which is being executed when the error has occurred and the identified print job, based on a predetermined time which has elapsed in a state where an error is occurring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventor: Satoshi Totsuka