Patents by Inventor Tomoki Shibamori

Tomoki Shibamori 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: 11947787
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display a preview on a screen, the preview including a plurality of sheet regions and objects placed on the sheet regions, a reception unit configured to select one or more of the objects placed on the sheet regions in response to a user input and to receive a drag operation, and a move unit configured, in moving a plurality of the objects at once in response to an operation received by the reception unit, to gather the plurality of objects onto a same sheet region without maintaining a positional relation between the objects in a case when a particular condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoki Shibamori
  • Publication number: 20240069819
    Abstract: Provided is a method of controlling an information processing apparatus configured to execute an extension application associated with printing data generation software operatable in the information processing apparatus to extend a function, the method including: obtaining input data including printing setting; displaying a screen related to a specific function on a display unit in a case where it is determined based on the printing setting that the specific function is executed; editing the input data, such that the specific function is executed, to convert the input data into printing data; and transmitting the printing data to a printing apparatus after the screen is displayed on the display unit in the displaying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventor: Tomoki Shibamori
  • Patent number: 11875066
    Abstract: Provided is a method of controlling an information processing apparatus configured to execute an extension application associated with printing data generation software operatable in the information processing apparatus to extend a function, the method including: obtaining input data including printing setting; displaying a screen related to a specific function on a display unit in a case where it is determined based on the printing setting that the specific function is executed; editing the input data, such that the specific function is executed, to convert the input data into printing data; and transmitting the printing data to a printing apparatus after the screen is displayed on the display unit in the displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoki Shibamori
  • Publication number: 20230388436
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus capable of inhibiting a spot color printing result from turning out not as intended by a user, as well as a control method and a storage medium. To this end, a pixel region for which spot color printing is specified is identified in print data, and it is determined whether pixels surrounding the identified pixel region include a pixel which is in a color approximating to the spot color and whose color difference from the spot color equals or falls below a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventor: TOMOKI SHIBAMORI
  • Publication number: 20230065648
    Abstract: Provided is a method of controlling an information processing apparatus configured to execute an extension application associated with printing data generation software operatable in the information processing apparatus to extend a function, the method including: obtaining input data including printing setting; displaying a screen related to a specific function on a display unit in a case where it is determined based on the printing setting that the specific function is executed; editing the input data, such that the specific function is executed, to convert the input data into printing data; and transmitting the printing data to a printing apparatus after the screen is displayed on the display unit in the displaying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: Tomoki Shibamori
  • Publication number: 20230008933
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a display control unit configured to display a preview on a screen, the preview including a plurality of sheet regions and objects placed on the sheet regions; a reception unit configured to select one or more of the objects placed on the sheet regions in response to a user input and receive a drag operation; and a move unit configured to, in moving a plurality of the objects at once in response to an operation received by the reception unit, gather the plurality of objects onto a same sheet region without maintaining a positional relation between the objects in a case where a particular condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventor: Tomoki SHIBAMORI
  • Patent number: 10942693
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a printer driver configured to generate page description language data based on drawing data in a first format; an application configured to generate drawing data in a second format different from the first format; and a conversion unit of an operating system, the conversion unit configured to perform a conversion process of converting drawing data in the second format into drawing data in the first format. The information processing apparatus comprises a generation unit configured to generate data that does not require the conversion process by the conversion unit of the operating system in a case where a printer driver selected by a user using the application is the printer driver configured to generate page description language data based on drawing data in the first format. The printer driver generates page description language data based on the data generated by the generation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoki Shibamori
  • Patent number: 10789023
    Abstract: In a control method for an information processing apparatus, in a case of a selected saddle stitch print setting, adding to output target pages automatically one or more blank pages, based on the number of output target pages being less than a predetermined number, adding one or more blank pages into certain positions of the output target pages, and receiving an output instruction for outputting the output target pages. In a case where one or more blank pages are added automatically, outputting the plurality of output target pages after notifying the user. In a case when the output instruction is received and the one or more blank pages included in the output target pages are added based on all of the blank pages being added, outputting the plurality of output target pages without notifying the user that the one or more blank pages are included in the output target pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoki Shibamori
  • Publication number: 20200012460
    Abstract: A control method for an information processing apparatus, comprises: editing, based on a user instruction, a plurality of pages which are displayed on a display unit of the information processing apparatus and on which images designated by a user can be laid out; making, if the plurality of pages include a blank page on which no image is laid out, a notification to the user; and generating, based on a result of the editing, print data for printing the plurality of pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventor: Tomoki Shibamori
  • Publication number: 20190361648
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a printer driver configured to generate page description language data based on drawing data in a first format; an application configured to generate drawing data in a second format different from the first format; and a conversion unit of an operating system, the conversion unit configured to perform a conversion process of converting drawing data in the second format into drawing data in the first format. The information processing apparatus comprises a generation unit configured to generate data that does not require the conversion process by the conversion unit of the operating system in a case where a printer driver selected by a user using the application is the printer driver configured to generate page description language data based on drawing data in the first format. The printer driver generates page description language data based on the data generated by the generation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventor: Tomoki Shibamori