Patents by Inventor Yoichi Kashibuchi

Yoichi Kashibuchi 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: 9247105
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus detects an edge in image data and performs density correction so as to reduce the density of the detected edge. The apparatus then performs screen processing on the image data including the edge that has undergone the density correction, and performs smoothing processing on the edge in screen data obtained through the screen processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichi Kashibuchi
  • Publication number: 20150153927
    Abstract: In a case where it is determined that a swipe operation having a swipe amount equal to or greater than a predetermined amount is performed by a user when one of a plurality of objects included in a page is displayed as a main object on a screen, one of other objects to be displayed when the swipe operation is performed is estimated as a next main object and displayed on the screen based on the swipe operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventor: Yoichi Kashibuchi
  • Publication number: 20150067484
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus that displays a first page and a second page. The display apparatus includes a determining unit configured to determine whether or not the layout of the first page is similar to the layout of the second page by comparing an object included in the first page with an object included in the second page which is different from the first page; and a display unit configured to display the first page on a screen based on a display area having been set by a user, wherein, if the determining unit determines that the layout of the first page is similar to the layout of the second page, the display unit displays the second page on the screen based on the set display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sumio, Yoichi Kashibuchi, Motoki Ikeda, Masahito Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150067456
    Abstract: Provided is an image display apparatus that displays a page image including a plurality of objects on a screen, determines an amount of movement of the end of the object to be displayed from the end of the screen by detecting a user operation on a touch panel, and sets the end position of the object based on the determined amount of movement when the object to be displayed is larger than the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventor: Yoichi Kashibuchi
  • Patent number: 8824015
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a halftone processing unit configured to apply halftone processing based on a dither matrix to image data, a correction unit configured, with respect to the processed image data, to shift a pixel of the image data in a sub-scanning direction at a correction position in a main scanning direction which is determined based on correction information for correcting a distortion due to a curve of a scanning line for forming an image according to the image data, and a resolution conversion unit configured to apply resolution conversion processing for lowering a resolution of image data to the corrected image data, wherein the dither matrix results in that the image data to which the resolution conversion processing has been applied includes matched portions of halftone dot patterns appearing in regions preceding and following the correction position in the main scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoichi Kashibuchi
  • Publication number: 20140173394
    Abstract: When a reduction instruction is given to characters contained in a character region displayed in a wrapped-display mode, the display apparatus of the present invention determines whether or not the width of the reduction-instructed character region to which the reduction instruction has been made is equal to or less than the width of the screen. When the display apparatus determines that the width of the reduction-instructed character region is equal to or less than the width of the screen, the display apparatus controls to switch the wrapped-display mode to the partial region display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichi Kashibuchi
  • Publication number: 20140173532
    Abstract: In display apparatuses each including a touch UI, some of them correct or suppress the direction of display position shift in swipe operation. It is, however, inconvenient that sometimes the correction or suppression is performed at an undesired timing. The display position shift is suppressed depending on an attribute of a displayed object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoki Ikeda, Hiroshi Sumio, Masahito Yamamoto, Yoichi Kashibuchi
  • Patent number: 8755064
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a generation unit configured, in extracting an object from an input document, to generate object data including a word indicating a characteristic of the object and store the generated word in a storage area, a storage unit configured to store a table holding the word indicating a characteristic of the object associated with a degradation level, and a degradation unit configured, in performing output processing by reusing the object, to determine whether the word indicating a characteristic of the object to be reused is associated with the degradation level, and if it is determined that the word indicating the characteristic of the object is associated with the degradation level, to degrade the object according to the degradation level corresponding to the word indicating the characteristic of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoichi Kashibuchi
  • Patent number: 8749851
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a first screen processing unit which applies screen processing to image data using a first threshold matrix; a second screen processing unit which applies screen processing to the image data using a second threshold matrix different from the first threshold matrix; an edge detection unit which detects an edge portion of an object included in the image data; and an output unit which selects and outputs image data obtained by a logical OR operation between image data obtained by the first screen processing unit and image data obtained by the second screen processing unit for a pixel detected by the edge detection unit as an edge portion, and selects and outputs the image data obtained by the first screen processing unit for a pixel other than the edge portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoichi Kashibuchi
  • Patent number: 8737744
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus prints a processing instruction sheet for instructing to perform processing on a document to be processed. The processing instruction sheet is printed only when a processing region displayed by a display unit and a content of processing to be performed thereon are determine to be the same as those instructed by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoichi Kashibuchi, Naoki Ito
  • Patent number: 8711433
    Abstract: The image forming apparatus comprises a resolution converting unit configured to convert a high-resolution image data into a low-resolution image data, an edge judgment unit configured to judge a shape of an edge in the high-resolution image data, and a density correcting unit configured to make a density correction in the low-resolution image data in accordance with the shape of the edge judged by the edge judgment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoichi Kashibuchi, Hiroshi Kaburagi
  • Patent number: 8638482
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, configured to extract additional information added to an original document and perform a processing according to a result of the extraction, inputs image data obtained by causing a scanner to read an image of the original document, converts color component of the input image data into a color component different from the color component of the additional information, and causes a printer to print image data having the converted color component as a document to which a user can add additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Ito, Yoichi Kashibuchi
  • Patent number: 8619328
    Abstract: For reducing jaggies in second image data based on first image data, the second image data obtained by performing digital halftoning on each image signal of the first image data, and attribute data indicating the attribute of each pixel in the first image data, a determination signal indicating whether or not to perform smoothing processing is output based on the first image data, edge correction data for the smoothing processing is generated from the first image data, and whether or not to perform edge correction processing that uses the edge correction data is selected according to the determination signal and the attribute data. Moreover, the second image data and the edge correction data are compared for each image signal so as to output either one thereof according to the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoichi Kashibuchi, Hiroshi Kaburagi
  • Patent number: 8620068
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus extracts an area for each color from an illustration area, specifies an area that is in contact with the boundary of the illustration area, extracts a color around the illustration area, determines whether or not the extracted color around the illustration area is the same as the color of the specified area, and processes vector data that represents an area that has been determined as having the same color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Ito, Hiroshi Kaburagi, Tsutomu Sakaue, Takeshi Namikata, Manabu Takebayashi, Reiji Misawa, Osamu Iinuma, Yoichi Kashibuchi, Junya Arakawa, Shinji Sano
  • Publication number: 20130293928
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a halftone processing unit configured to apply halftone processing based on a dither matrix to image data, a correction unit configured, with respect to the processed image data, to shift a pixel of the image data in a sub-scanning direction at a correction position in a main scanning direction which is determined based on correction information for correcting a distortion due to a curve of a scanning line for forming an image according to the image data, and a resolution conversion unit configured to apply resolution conversion processing for lowering a resolution of image data to the corrected image data, wherein the dither matrix results in that the image data to which the resolution conversion processing has been applied includes matched portions of halftone dot patterns appearing in regions preceding and following the correction position in the main scanning direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichi Kashibuchi
  • Publication number: 20130235087
    Abstract: An image display apparatus for displaying an image containing a plurality of objects includes a setting unit configured to set a display magnification and a display position according to an attribute of a display target object when a first display mode for displaying each object included in the image is specified, and a display control unit configured to perform control to display on a screen the image containing the display target object based on the display magnification and the display position set by the setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichi Kashibuchi, Masahito Yamamoto, Hiroshi Sumio, Motoki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8463028
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read image data, a recognition unit configured to recognize a color of a handwritten portion designating a region in the image data and to recognize processing associated with the color of the handwritten portion, a display unit configured to display the recognized color and a content of the processing associated with the color, and a changing unit configured to change an association between the recognized color and the recognized content of the processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoichi Kashibuchi, Naoki Ito
  • Patent number: 8379269
    Abstract: Since a less-than-one-pixel-basis correction and a one-pixel-basis correction are constantly performed on an image after halftoning, unevenness in density disadvantageously occur depending on a halftoning method. According to the halftoning method, whether the less-than-one-pixel-basis correction is performed on a continuous tone image or the one-pixel-basis correction is performed on a halftone image is switched. The one-pixel-basis correction is constantly performed on the halftone image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoichi Kashibuchi, Hirokazu Tamura
  • Patent number: 8335018
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a divisor matrix including at least two kinds of divisor values, and a changing unit configured to change M (M>N) gradation image data into N (N>3) gradation image data, wherein the changing unit is configured to divide a pixel value of a target pixel of the M gradation image data by a divisor value corresponding to a pixel position of the target pixel to change the M gradation image data into the N-gradation image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoichi Kashibuchi, Hiroshi Kaburagi
  • Patent number: 8331731
    Abstract: When a multi-level image having a first resolution is converted into a multi-level image having a second resolution lower than the first resolution, attribute data including a conversion processed flag indicating a kind of conversion and a conversion result is generated and held associated with pixel data of a pixel on interest undergone the conversion corresponding to an attribute flag indicating an attribute in which a pixel before the conversion is located. When the multi-level image having the first resolution is restored from the multi-level image having the second resolution, the pixel data of the pixel of interest is replaced with pixel data of a plurality of pixels in correspondence with the conversion processed flag in the attribute data held associated with the pixel data of the pixel on interest and pixel data of pixels around the pixel of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoichi Kashibuchi