Patents by Inventor Yasunori Shimakawa

Yasunori Shimakawa 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: 20240146855
    Abstract: An application program that is executed by an information processing apparatus configured to communicate with an image forming apparatus via a network, the application program includes executing a first program having a cooperation function of causing the image forming apparatus and the information processing apparatus to cooperate with each other, and transmitting a second program contained in the first program, wherein based on the cooperation function being enabled via the first program being executed by the executing, the transmitting transmits the second program to the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: YASUNORI SHIMAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240114097
    Abstract: Images of the plurality of document pages are scanned to generate image data with one scanning instruction. A single folder named with a received character string is determined as a storage destination of image data corresponding to the plurality of document pages generated with the scanning instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventor: Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Patent number: 11836394
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a printer, a controller that installs an application in the image forming apparatus, with the application holding sheet setting information for a predetermined sheet, and a communicator that transmits the sheet setting information held by the installed application to a printer driver installed in an information processing apparatus connected to the image forming apparatus. The communicator receives a print job including the sheet setting information from the information processing apparatus, and the printer prints, based on the sheet setting information included in the received print job, an image on the predetermined sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Patent number: 11811979
    Abstract: Images of the plurality of document pages are scanned to generate image data with one scanning instruction. A single folder named with a received character string is determined as a storage destination of image data corresponding to the plurality of document pages generated with the scanning instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Patent number: 11770489
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read a document, a processing unit configured to perform character recognition processing of recognizing characters included in an image of the document read by the reading unit, an identification unit configured to identify transfer destination information regarding a transfer destination and a transfer amount from a result obtained by the character recognition processing performed by the processing unit, a transmission unit configured to transmit the transfer destination information regarding the transfer destination and the transfer amount which are identified by the identification unit, a storage unit configured to store the transfer destination information regarding the transfer destination, and an object display unit configured to display an object to call the transfer destination information regarding the transfer destination stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Publication number: 20230267432
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of reducing time and labor of a user required to set information on a transfer destination. The image processing apparatus communicates with a server which provides a transfer service. An original on which a transfer destination is written is read to generate image data of the original. Optical character recognition is performed on the image data to extract a number having a predetermined number of digits. The number and position information of the number in the image data are stored. Information on the transfer destination, included in the image data, is acquired based on the number and the position information of the number. Control is performed to transmit a transfer instruction notification including the information on the transfer destination to the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventor: YASUNORI SHIMAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230128864
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an image forming apparatus comprises an installing unit configured to install an application in the image forming apparatus, the application holding sheet setting information for a predetermined sheet; and a providing unit configured to provide sheet setting information held by the installed application for a printer driver connected to the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventor: Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Publication number: 20230088627
    Abstract: Images of the plurality of document pages are scanned to generate image data with one scanning instruction. A single folder named with a received character string is determined as a storage destination of image data corresponding to the plurality of document pages generated with the scanning instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventor: Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Patent number: 11523009
    Abstract: Images of the plurality of document pages are scanned to generate image data with one scanning instruction. A single folder named with a received character string is determined as a storage destination of image data corresponding to the plurality of document pages generated with the scanning instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Patent number: 11503174
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which is capable of appropriately producing displays using installed expansion application modules without using a window manager module. The image forming apparatus produces a display in accordance with a display instruction for at least one of the installed expansion application modules. When display instructions for the expansion application modules overlap each other, priorities for display are assigned based on starting conditions related to the expansion application modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroshi Oya, Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Publication number: 20220256048
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read a document, a processing unit configured to perform character recognition processing of recognizing characters included in an image of the document read by the reading unit, an identification unit configured to identify transfer destination information regarding a transfer destination and a transfer amount from a result obtained by the character recognition processing performed by the processing unit, a transmission unit configured to transmit the transfer destination information regarding the transfer destination and the transfer amount which are identified by the identification unit, a storage unit configured to store the transfer destination information regarding the transfer destination, and an object display unit configured to display an object to call the transfer destination information regarding the transfer destination stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventor: Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Publication number: 20210258436
    Abstract: Images of the plurality of document pages are scanned to generate image data with one scanning instruction. A single folder named with a received character string is determined as a storage destination of image data corresponding to the plurality of document pages generated with the scanning instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventor: Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Publication number: 20210227089
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which is capable of appropriately producing displays using installed expansion application modules without using a window manager module. The image forming apparatus produces a display in accordance with a display instruction for at least one of the installed expansion application modules. When display instructions for the expansion application modules overlap each other, priorities for display are assigned based on starting conditions related to the expansion application modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroshi Oya, Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Patent number: 11025788
    Abstract: Images of the plurality of document pages are scanned to generate image data with one scanning instruction. A single folder named with a received character string is determined as a storage destination of image data corresponding to the plurality of document pages generated with the scanning instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Patent number: 10999464
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which is capable of appropriately producing displays using installed expansion application modules without using a window manager module. The image forming apparatus produces a display in accordance with a display instruction for at least one of the installed expansion application modules. When display instructions for the expansion application modules overlap each other, priorities for display are assigned based on starting conditions related to the expansion application modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroshi Oya, Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Publication number: 20200280644
    Abstract: Images of the plurality of document pages are scanned to generate image data with one scanning instruction. A single folder named with a received character string is determined as a storage destination of image data corresponding to the plurality of document pages generated with the scanning instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventor: Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Patent number: 10764463
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of running a predetermined application program on a firmware, which includes an operation unit, a memory configured to accept a user operation via the operation unit and store a user interface program which initializes display of the operation unit in accordance with an elapse of predetermined time, and a notifying unit configured to notify the firmware and the user interface program when the user operation via the operation unit is accepted, in which while the predetermined application program is running, the notifying unit notifies the application program of operation information based on the user operation via the firmware so that the user interface program does not initialize the display of the operation unit in accordance with the elapse of the predetermined time, and the notifying unit notifies the user interface program of predetermined notification which is not based on the user operation at predetermined timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasunori Shimakawa, Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroshi Oya
  • Patent number: 10609255
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that performs authentication of a user by a login program that operates on firmware and that, upon detection an abnormality of the login program, restricts execution of a job without causing the login program to terminate, and, while execution of the job is being restricted, controls to enable reception of an operation for disabling the login program via a reception unit for receiving an operation by a user via an operation unit, and, in accordance with the operation for disabling, causes the restricted job to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oya, Yasunori Shimakawa, Atsushi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20180146117
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that performs authentication of a user by a login program that operates on firmware and that, upon detection an abnormality of the login program, restricts execution of a job without causing the login program to terminate, and, while execution of the job is being restricted, controls to enable reception of an operation for disabling the login program via a reception unit for receiving an operation by a user via an operation unit, and, in accordance with the operation for disabling, causes the restricted job to be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oya, Yasunori Shimakawa, Atsushi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20180146111
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of running a predetermined application program on a firmware, which includes an operation unit, a memory configured to accept a user operation via the operation unit and store a user interface program which initializes display of the operation unit in accordance with an elapse of predetermined time, and a notifying unit configured to notify the firmware and the user interface program when the user operation via the operation unit is accepted, in which while the predetermined application program is running, the notifying unit notifies the application program of operation information based on the user operation via the firmware so that the user interface program does not initialize the display of the operation unit in accordance with the elapse of the predetermined time, and the notifying unit notifies the user interface program of predetermined notification which is not based on the user operation at predetermined timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Yasunori Shimakawa, Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroshi Oya