Patents Represented by Attorney Canon U.S.A. Inc., I.P. Division
  • Patent number: 8042191
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus captures an image, and performs an authentication process with an external device. The image capture apparatus encrypts a captured image to generate an encrypted image if the authentication unit succeeds in performing the authentication process, and stores the encrypted image in a recording medium. The image capture apparatus displays whether the authentication unit succeeded in performing the authentication process, and whether the external device includes key information used in encrypting the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hitoshi Yururi
  • Patent number: 8036479
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a moving image on a frame-by-frame basis, a feature quantity calculating unit configured to calculate a feature quantity of the input image, a storing unit configured to store the feature quantity corresponding to a plurality of frames, a motion determination unit configured to determine whether an object of the input image is moving or motionless, a smoothing unit configured to smooth feature quantity of a plurality of images in accordance with a result of determination made by the motion determination unit, and an image correcting unit configured to correct the input image in accordance with an output from the smoothing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuru Maeda
  • Patent number: 8036469
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a first part and a second part separable from each other. If the first part and the second part are in a separated state, the first part applies image processing to image data and transmits the processed image data to the second part. If the first part and the second part are in a united state, the first part and a second part perform assigned roles for applying image processing to the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuhiko Shiomi
  • Patent number: 8035642
    Abstract: In an apparatus and method for processing information, the font sizes of characters in display content are changed in different magnifications for each of the font sizes so as to display the content in a legible size when the size of the display area is changed. A program makes a computer execute the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Wataru Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8031939
    Abstract: A color processing method includes outputting, via an image output device, a chart image in which a plurality of images obtained by applying illuminant corrections corresponding to a plurality of different illuminants to images corresponding to a plurality of representative colors are arranged in a predetermined layout, receiving a user's instruction to select one of the illuminant corrections corresponding to one of the plurality of different illuminants based on the output chart image, and setting the selected illuminant correction to be applied to an original image, wherein the plurality of representative colors are memory colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Suzuki, Hisato Sekine, Yukinobu Akado
  • Patent number: 8029084
    Abstract: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an image forming apparatus which can form a stable dot pattern to be used with a digital pen. The dot pattern used by a digital pen can be formed by changing an image forming condition, which is read by the digital pen. The image forming condition can be set based on a reading of an experimental test dot pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiko Uchiyama, Tatsuya Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8027559
    Abstract: An image reproducing apparatus is connected to a display device via a video data transmitting unit and a file data transmitting unit and is driven by a battery. The image reproducing apparatus calculates a first electric power required to transmit video data to the display device and a second electric power required to transmit file data to the display device, and acquires a remaining amount of electric power in the battery. Then, the image reproducing apparatus judges whether the acquired remaining amount of electric power in the battery is equal to or larger than the first electric power, is equal to or larger than the second electric power but smaller than the first electric power, or is smaller than the second electric power, and determines whether the image data is to be transmitted as the video data or the file data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 8027098
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens including: a focus lens unit which moves during focusing; and a magnification-varying lens unit which moves during zooming, in which when the magnification-varying lens unit is moved in a direction in which a depth of focus deepens, a focus operation using the focus lens unit is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masayuki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 8024375
    Abstract: A memory stores a file attached to a message generated by using a structure language. Data containing an element contained in the message to which information for obtaining type information and a file referred by the element are obtained from the memory is added is constructed. This data has a construction corresponding to an application programming interface for the structured language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Osamu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8023809
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a vibration correction unit configured to correct an image shake occurring due to vibration, a first detection unit configured to detect an angular velocity of the vibration, a second detection unit configured to detect an acceleration of the vibration, a calculation unit configured to calculate a correction value based on the output of the first detection unit and the output of the second detection unit, an output correction unit configured to correct an output of the first detection unit based on the correction value and to change a frequency characteristic of a signal based on the output of the first detection unit to apply an apparent frequency-dependent characteristic to the correction value, and a driving unit configured to drive the vibration correction unit based on an output of the first detection unit, an output of the output correction unit, or a combined output thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Washisu, Goro Noto, Junichi Saito
  • Patent number: 8024812
    Abstract: A digital document processing apparatus stores a digital document, an application program used for editing the digital document, where the application program runs on an application platform, and a filter program used for restricting a function executed by the application program. The digital document processing apparatus includes a function determination unit configured to determine whether a function executed by the application program is restricted by the filter program, and a function restricting unit configured to restrict the function executed by the application program using the filter program if the function determination unit determines that the function executed by the application program is restricted by the filter program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Koike, Katsushi Sunagawa
  • Patent number: 8019792
    Abstract: When a hot folder monitoring section detects entry of a data file into a hot folder, a job ticket creating section creates a print job for the entered data file. A print data transmitting section transmits the created print job to a printer. If the hot folder monitoring section determines that the data file is entered from an input source folder to the hot folder, the print system transfers the data file to the input source folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hidekazu Morooka
  • Patent number: 8019176
    Abstract: A CG image having a transparency parameter is superimposed on a shot image, which is an image picked up by an image-pickup device, to obtain a combined image. The combined image is displayed in a combined-image-display region. In the combined image, a mask region of the CG image is set based on parameter information used to extract a region of a hand. The transparency parameter of the CG image is set based on a ratio of the size of the region of the CG image excluding the mask region to the size of the shot image. By checking the combined image, which is displayed in the combined-image-display region, the user can set the parameter information by a simple operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichiro Wanda, Toshikazu Ohshima
  • Patent number: 8014489
    Abstract: In a radiographic imaging apparatus capable of performing a first imaging in which radiographic imaging is performed with a first X-ray dose and a second imaging in which radiographic imaging is performed at a second X-ray dose that is less than the first X-ray dose, the timing corresponding to a particular phase of a periodically moving organ as a subject to be imaged is predicted, and the first imaging performed at the predicted timing and the second imaging performed a predetermined number of times before and after the predicted timing are repeated. Through this repetition, a shift between the timing of the particular phase that is recognized from images acquired through the execution of the first imaging and the second imaging and the predicted timing is detected, and the predicted timing is corrected based on the detected shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koji Oshima
  • Patent number: 8007112
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a light source, a color separation unit configured to separate light from the light source into colored light beams, liquid crystal display devices each configured to modulate a corresponding one of the colored light beams in accordance with an image signal, light-shielding members each configured to block light that enters an area outside an effective display area of a corresponding one of the liquid crystal display devices, a color combination unit configured to combine the colored light beams that have been modulated by the liquid crystal display devices, and a projection unit configured to project light produced by combining the colored light beams with the color combination unit, wherein the liquid crystal display devices are fixed to a heatsink, and wherein the light-shielding members each include a base member fixed to the heatsink and a mask member detachably mounted on the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hidetomo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8010712
    Abstract: A macro transmission server apparatus stores a combination of functions of a multifunction peripheral and an order of processing of the functions as a macro. The macro transmission server apparatus manages a plurality of such macros and determines a portion of the plurality of such macros to be transmitted to a multifunction peripheral on a network as a transmission set. The macro transmission server apparatus includes a change detection unit configured to detect a change in function of the multifunction peripheral, a transmission set updating unit configured to change the transmission set according to the change detected by the change detection unit such that at least one of the macros that is executable by the multifunction peripheral is included in the transmission set, a macro storage unit configured to store the transmission set and the plurality of such macros, and a macro transmission unit configured to transmit the transmission set to the multifunction peripheral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideo Asahara
  • Patent number: 8010580
    Abstract: A meta-information-read unit, a display-cache unit, a pre-reading-cache unit, a display-state-management unit, an operation-input unit, a meta-information-pre-reading unit, and an input-operation-determination unit are provided. The meta-information-pre-reading unit changes a pre-reading condition and pre-reads meta information on the basis of a result of determination made by the input-operation-determination unit and display-state-management information managed by the display-state-management unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masato Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 8009797
    Abstract: An X-ray imaging apparatus includes a phase grating, an absorption grating, a detector, and an arithmetic unit. The arithmetic unit executes a Fourier transform step of performing Fourier transform for an intensity distribution of a Moiré acquired by the detector, and acquiring a spatial frequency spectrum. Also, the arithmetic unit executes a phase retrieval step of separating a spectrum corresponding to a carrier frequency from a spatial frequency spectrum acquired in the Fourier transform step, performing inverse Fourier transform for the separated spectrum, and acquiring a differential phase image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Chidane Ouchi, Kentaro Nagai, Toru Den, Hidenosuke Itoh
  • Patent number: 8009225
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an automatic exposure control unit that changes an exposure value based on luminance detected by a luminance detection unit for detecting luminance of an imaging screen, and a luminance changing amount detection unit that detects a luminance changing amount in the imaging screen. A method of setting an exposure value is changed between when the luminance changing amount detected by the luminance changing amount detection unit exceeds a preset luminance changing amount and when the luminance changing amount does not exceed the preset luminance changing amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Isamu Senoo
  • Patent number: 8004698
    Abstract: An image processing system includes a first obtaining section for obtaining a first image and a color mode for the first image; a second obtaining section for obtaining a second image and a color mode for the second image; a priority setting section for setting which of the color mode for the first image and the color mode for the second image priority is to be given to; a color-mode setting section for setting a color mode for a composite image based on the color mode for the first image, the color mode for the second image, and the setting of the priority setting section; a combining section for combining the first image and the second image to produce the composite image; and an outputting section for outputting the composite image with the color mode set by the color-mode setting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Jumpei Sano