Patents Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
-
Publication number: 20250148598Abstract: An image information processing apparatus provided in one aspect of the present invention includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires the same structure from a plurality of medical images captured at different times or by different devices, calculates feature quantities related to the form of the structure for each of the medical images, and corrects the structure so that a difference in the feature quantities is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2024Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicants: Rigshospitalet, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Klaus FUGLSANG KOFOED, Michael Huy Cuong PHAM, Yukiteru MASUDA, Ryo ISHIKAWA, Gakuto AOYAMA
-
Publication number: 20250145931Abstract: According to one embodiment, a cell treatment apparatus includes a conveyance mechanism, a liquid feed control unit and a connection control unit. The conveyance mechanism is capable of moving a cartridge including a plurality of connection ports. The liquid feed control unit is connected to at least one of the plurality of connection ports and is configured to control feed of a liquid in the cartridge. The connection control unit is configured to move at least one of the liquid feed control unit and the cartridge if connecting the liquid feed control unit and the cartridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2024Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicants: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Takaaki KAWANO, Shota UCHINO, Tetsuya SAKAI
-
Publication number: 20250148743Abstract: An image information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a structure from a medical image, sets one or more lines or planes that divide the structure into a plurality of regions, calculates feature quantities related to a form of the structure for each of the regions, and corrects the structure so that a difference in the feature quantities is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2024Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicants: Rigshospitalet, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Klaus FUGLSANG KOFOED, Michael Huy Cuong PHAM, Yukiteru MASUDA, Ryo ISHIKAWA, Gakuto AOYAMA
-
Patent number: 12291036Abstract: A liquid ejection head and liquid ejection apparatus are capable of suppressing deterioration in image quality without adding a member for heat radiation. In the liquid ejection head that ejects a circulating liquid, an engagement part formed on the discharge port side has an elongated hole shape extending in a direction so as to support a liquid ejection unit support member in such a manner as to allow thermal deformation.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoki Tsuji, Yumi Komamiya
-
Patent number: 12295101Abstract: An electronic component comprises: a first board; a first flexible board that is used to connect the first board and a second board; and a first transmission wiring, formed on the first board, the second board and the first flexible board, that transmits a signal from the first board to the second board. One of the first flexible board is connected to the first board with a conductive connecting material, and a connector capable of attaching to and detaching from the second board is provided on the other end of the first flexible board.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Naoyuki Nakagawara
-
Patent number: 12292616Abstract: Provided is a lens including: a circumferential groove formed in an outer periphery of the lens; and a light-shielding ring, which is provided in the circumferential groove, and is configured to shield light, the light-shielding ring having a ring shape.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tadanori Okada
-
Patent number: 12291024Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a print medium in a conveyance direction, a printing unit, a plurality of rotary members arrayed in the direction intersecting a conveyance direction on a downstream side of the printing unit in the conveyance direction and configured to regulate a height position of the print medium from above the print medium, a holding member configured to rotatably hold the plurality of rotary members, a base member configured to support the holding member, and an adjustment member configured to adjust a position of the holding member in a height direction with respect to the base member.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kota Uchida, Kohei Fukui, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Takakazu Ohashi, Kengo Nieda
-
Patent number: 12292555Abstract: The zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a middle group including two or more lens units, and a rear group including one or more lens units and having a positive refractive power. The first lens unit does not move for zooming. During zooming, the second lens unit moves and a distance between each adjacent lens units changes. In all lens units of the zoom lens, during zooming the second lens unit moves by a largest moving amount and has a largest zooming ratio between a wide-angle end and a telephoto end. Predetermined conditions are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shuichi Kurokawa
-
Patent number: 12291038Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid storage unit; a liquid ejection head; a liquid communication path to communicate the liquid storage unit with the liquid ejection head; and a liquid pressurization unit to supply a liquid in the liquid storage unit to the liquid ejection head through the liquid communication path by pressurization. The liquid ejection head includes: an inlet; a pressure chamber; and a circulation path through which the liquid supplied from the liquid communication path is circulated. The circulation path includes a supply channel, the pressure chamber, a collection channel, a circulation pump, and a pressure adjustment unit. The circulation pump is disposed at a position which is higher in the direction of gravity than a liquid inlet provided in a liquid channel extending from the liquid storage unit to the pressure adjustment unit and where the circulation pump is not in contact with the inlet.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichi Kubo, Naozumi Nabeshima, Soji Kondo, Kazuya Yoshii
-
Patent number: 12292703Abstract: A developing device includes a developer bearing member and carrier to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on an image bearing member, a developing container, a conveying screw which conveys the developer, and an inductance sensor which includes a detecting portion which detects magnetic permeability of the developer in the developing container. If the inductance sensor is not attached to the developing container and a predetermined magnetic material is disposed in contact with the detection portion, an output value when the detecting portion detects magnetic permeability of the predetermined magnetic material is A, and if the inductance sensor is not attached to the developing container and the predetermined magnetic material is disposed 1 mm away from the detection portion in a vertical direction passing through the detection portion, an output value when the detecting portion detects magnetic permeability of the predetermined magnetic material is B, with B/A?0.1 being satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuta Okuyama
-
Patent number: 12294230Abstract: A power receiving apparatus for receiving power transmitted by wireless power transmission from a power transmitting apparatus, comprises a first communication unit for communicating with the power transmitting apparatus, and a second communication unit for performing communication at a speed higher than the first communication unit. The power receiving apparatus determines, by communication via the first communication unit, whether the power transmitting apparatus has a function of transmitting/receiving, via the second communication unit, information for device authentication with the power transmitting apparatus, and enables the second communication unit to execute transmission/reception of the information for the device authentication with the power transmitting apparatus via the second communication unit if it is determined that the power transmitting apparatus has the function and the second communication unit is in a disabled state.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomoki Hiramatsu
-
Patent number: 12293495Abstract: An image processing method includes acquiring a captured image obtained by imaging, generating a first image by correcting a blur component of the captured image, and generating a second image based on the captured image, the first image, and weight information. The weight information is generated based on (i) information on brightness of the captured image or information on a scene of the captured image and (ii) information on a saturated area in the captured image.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuichi Kusumi, Norihito Hiasa
-
Patent number: 12292368Abstract: The present invention provides an evaluation method for evaluating a state in an apparatus concerning particles existing inside a substrate processing apparatus for processing a substrate, including arranging a plate in a charged state inside the apparatus and obtaining the number of particles adhered to the plate by performing a dummy operation different from an operation of processing the substrate, and evaluating the state in the apparatus based on a coefficient representing a ratio of the number of particles adhered to the plate by performing the dummy operation for the plate in an uncharged state to the number of particles adhered to the plate in the charged state, and the number of particles obtained in the arranging the plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masami Yonekawa, Hisanobu Azuma, Toshihiro Ifuku
-
Patent number: 12293686Abstract: An apparatus includes a light source configured to emit a light beam based on image data, a projection unit configured to project the light beam onto a pupil of a user, and at least one processor and a memory coupled to the processor storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to function as: an obtaining unit configured to obtain position information on a projection area through which the light beam to be projected onto a retina of the user passes, and a control unit configured to control a projection image to be projected onto the retina with the light beam based on the image data. The control unit controls the light source such that the projection image is changed based on the position information on the projection area and a position of the light beam.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shogo Iwasaki
-
Patent number: 12292943Abstract: An information processing apparatus, that includes an operation unit having an operation screen and can be operated from a terminal connected via a network, comprises a transmitting unit for transmitting information related to the operation screen being displayed to the terminal in a case where it is decided that there is a predetermined instruction of a user to the operation unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toru Sakaguchi
-
Patent number: 12294719Abstract: A system and method of decoding a transform block for a colour channel of an image frame from a video bitstream. The method comprises determining a chroma format of the image frame, the chroma format having chroma channels of the image frame being subsampled relative to a luma channel of the image frame; determining a coefficient group size of the transform block, the coefficient group size being a largest area of the transform block of up to 16 samples, the coefficient group size being determined based only on the transform block size and independent of both (i) a colour plane of the transform block and (ii) colour plane subsampling due to the determined chroma format; and decoding the transform block using coefficient groups of the determined size from the video bitstream.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2024Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Christopher James Rosewarne
-
Patent number: 12293243Abstract: In a host computer, a print processor generates, in a drawing region of a memory device context, additional raster data for drawing an additional drawing in addition to drawing information regarding a logical page included in an Enhanced Metafile Format (EMF) spool file, and a graphics driver (GD) module of a printer driver combines document raster data generated in a drawing region of a printer device context with the additional raster data, and generates print data based on post-combination raster data.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Reo Tagawa
-
Patent number: 12293510Abstract: An inspection apparatus obtains a scanned image by reading a printed product, calculates a weighting factor of a weighting filter based on a difference between a value of a pixel of interest in a reference image used in creation of the printed product and values of peripheral pixels of the pixel of interest, performs filter processing by using the weighting filter having the weighting factors, with respect to a pixel of interest in the scanned image, which corresponds to the pixel of interest in the reference image, thereby shifting the pixel of interest in the scanned image, and create an inspection target image by calculating the weighting factors and performing the filter processing with respect to the shifted pixel of interest, and inspects quality of the printed product by collating the inspection target image with the reference image.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenichirou Haruta
-
Patent number: 12294776Abstract: An electronic device includes a base member, a reference member fixed to the base member, an image sensor, a holding member holding the image sensor and being held by the base member such that a distance from the reference member to the image sensor is changeable, a biasing member generating a first force that biases the holding member in a direction in which the distance increases, and a correction member providing, to the holding member, a second force acting against the first force. The second force changes due to deformation of the correction member depending on its temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Taro Fuchigami
-
Patent number: 12292713Abstract: To provide a toner having both low temperature fixability and hot offset resistance and having excellent scratch resistance of a fixed image. A toner including a toner particle containing a binder resin, a crystalline polyester, and a calcium carbonate particle, in which the crystalline polyester includes a unit derived from an aliphatic diol and a unit derived from an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid, an ester group concentration Ec of the crystalline polyester is 27% by mass or more to 50% by mass or less, a content Ma of the calcium carbonate particle included in the toner particle is 3% by mass or more to 40% by mass or less, and a ratio (Ma/Mc) of the content Ma of the calcium carbonate particle included in the toner particle to a content Mc (% by mass) of the crystalline polyester included in the toner particle is 0.2 or more to 20 or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisasuke Kajihara, Yuya Chimoto, Junichi Tamura, Kazuhisa Shirayama, Hayato Ida