Patents Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
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Patent number: 12267568Abstract: A radiation imaging control apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a subject, a foreign matter detection unit configured to detect, in a case where a radiation image of the subject is to be acquired, a foreign matter which is likely to appear in the radiation image from the captured image acquired by the image acquisition unit, a warning information generation unit configured to generate warning information regarding image capturing of a radiation image based on the foreign matter detection unit having detected a foreign matter in the captured image, and a display control unit configured to issue a notification based on the warning information.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Manami Hikosaka, Yuichi Ikeda, Yasutomo Shimizu
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Patent number: 12267947Abstract: A wiring board includes a signal line, a shield member whose main surface extends along the signal line, and a branch line that is electrically connected to the shield member, that includes a leading end that is opened, and that extends in a direction parallel with the main surface of the shield member.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Aoki, Tomohisa Ishigami, Yu Ogawa
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Patent number: 12267578Abstract: A control apparatus includes a search unit that performs object search using image data that has been acquired from an image pickup apparatus and a control unit that controls the search unit. The control unit controls a focal length of the image pickup apparatus according to a specified search distance in a search distance range in which the object search is available, and a size of a search target object.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yasuhiro Mizobuchi
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Patent number: 12267494Abstract: An image is divided into a plurality of tiles and the tile is divided into rectangular regions each including at least one block row formed from a plurality of blocks each having a size smaller than the tile. If each slice in the image includes only one rectangular region, based on the number of blocks in a vertical direction in the rectangular region, the number of pieces of information for specifying a start position of coded data of the block row in the slice is specified. A bitstream in which at least the pieces of information, whose number is as many as the specified number, information representing that each slice in the image is formed by only one rectangular region, and the coded data of the block row are multiplexed is generated.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Okawa, Masato Shima
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Patent number: 12264037Abstract: A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a first skew correcting portion, a second skew correcting portion, an acquisition unit, a control unit. The first skew correcting portion corrects skew of a sheet by abutting a leading edge of the sheet against the first roller pair to form a bend in the sheet. The second skew correcting portion corrects skew of a sheet by conveying the sheet with a turning motion. When a first sheet with a length of a first length is conveyed, the control unit corrects the skew of the first sheet by the second skew correcting portion. When a second sheet with a length of a second length longer than the first length is conveyed, the control unit corrects the skew of the second sheet by the first skew correcting portion, and configured not to correct the skew of the second sheet by the second skew correcting portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akihiro Ito
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Patent number: 12263682Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid container for containing liquid which has a refilling port for refilling the liquid container with liquid, a contained liquid information memory unit for storing information on the liquid contained in the liquid container, a refilling liquid information memory unit for storing information on the liquid to be supplied for refilling the liquid container, a liquid ejection head for ejecting the liquid supplied from the liquid container and a control unit for controlling operation of the liquid ejection apparatus according to the information stored in the contained liquid information memory unit and the information stored in the refilling liquid information memory unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuji Tamaru, Kazumasa Matsushita, Chiaki Muraoka
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Patent number: 12263634Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a first process configured to process a substrate with a top plate disposed nearer an upper surface of the substrate, the substrate being held by a substrate holding unit of a first substrate holding apparatus, a second process configured to raise the substrate with the top plate disposed on the first substrate holding apparatus to make a space between the substrate holding unit and the substrate, a third process configured to insert a substrate conveyance apparatus for conveying the substrate with the top plate disposed on the first substrate holding apparatus to a second substrate holding apparatus into the space, and a fourth process configured to convey the substrate to the second substrate holding apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroshi Sato
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Patent number: 12267216Abstract: A management device, a control method thereof, and a storage medium storing a program manage network devices. Map information is managed by assigning attribute information thereto, information for a network device (management target) is managed by assigning attribute information thereto, and user information is managed by assigning attribute information thereto. When the map information becomes a placement target for a placement operation for a network device corresponding to a map selected, map information that has been assigned attribute information that does not corresponding to the attribute information for the network device is prevented from being selected. Information for a network device is displayed on a display device displaying a map based on the results of the placement operation using user selected map information.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toshiyuki Nakazawa
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Patent number: 12264035Abstract: A sheet feeder apparatus includes a width detector for a sheet placed on a sheet placement portion, a conveyor for conveying sheets while separating the sheets one by one, a first detector for detecting a sheet having a first width at a plurality of first positions, a second detector for detecting a sheet having a second width that is not detected by the first sheet detector at a plurality of second positions, and a controller for determining skewing of a sheet based on a result of the detection of the sheet performed by the first detector if the width of the sheet is the first width, and determining skewing of a sheet based on a result of the detection performed by the second detector if the width of the sheet is the second width.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichi Matsumura, Satoshi Okuma
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Patent number: 12264031Abstract: An image forming system includes a detection unit to detect a recording material, having an image formed thereon by an image forming unit, placed on a processing tray, a staple unit, a discharge unit, and a discharge tray. A first mode of the system is to discharge the recording material conveyed from the image forming unit to the discharge tray via the processing tray and a second mode involves waiting for instruction for executing. When the detection unit detects the recording material inserted into the processing tray in the second mode, and a recording material first mode conveying instruction is issued in a state of waiting for the executing instruction after the recording material detection, a discharge operation is performed to discharge the recording material inserted into the processing tray to the discharge tray without the staple unit executing staple processing on the recording material inserted into the processing tray.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Seiji Yokoyama
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Patent number: 12264968Abstract: An information processing apparatus operable to perform colorimetry using a colorimeter that performs colorimetry of a colorimetric target based on reflected light obtained by irradiating illumination light onto the colorimetric target. The information processing apparatus loads a control program of a connected colorimeter before confirming a colorimeter to be used for colorimetry, executes the control program and receives an operation event of an operation performed on the connected colorimeter, and in response to the operation event, controls so as to confirm the colorimeter as a colorimeter to be used, or cause the colorimeter to wait until usage preparation, or confirm the colorimeter as a colorimeter to be used and request execution of calibration.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukihiro Shindo, Hidekazu Nakashio
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Patent number: 12267474Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain information about a drum unit from an image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a sheet using the drum unit, and a notification unit configured to provide a notification, in a case where it is detected that the drum unit has been replaced with a new one based on the information obtained by the obtaining unit, indicating that a calibration is required.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazuki Kado
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Patent number: 12263676Abstract: A printing element board includes a plurality of memory modules each including a memory element and a driving circuit, a plurality of discharge modules, a control data supply unit configured to select one of a memory module and a discharge module from the plurality of memory modules and the plurality of discharge modules and perform drive control, and a logical product calculation unit configured to, when the memory module is selected, receive a first signal and a second signal output at the same timing, and supply a signal indicating a logical product of the first and second signals to the control data supply unit. When the signal indicating the logical product of the first and second signals is not supplied from the calculation unit, the supply unit does not perform drive control of the memory module.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryohei Yamada, Toshio Negishi
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Patent number: 12263673Abstract: A processing apparatus comprises: an integrated circuit; a power supply unit connected to an external power supply and configured to perform power supply to the integrated circuit; and a power switch configured to switch a state of the processing apparatus based on power supplied from the power supply unit. The integrated circuit comprises a control unit configured to control a power state of the integrated circuit in a state in which power supply to the integrated circuit is being performed by the power supply unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toshiyuki Kitazawa
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Patent number: 12263687Abstract: The plurality of surface light emitting element array chips in the first row and the plurality of surface light emitting element array chips in the second row are arranged in a staggered manner along the main scanning direction, and a space between the plurality of surface light emitting element array chips in the first row and the plurality of surface light emitting element array chips in the second row is set so as not to be an integral multiple of an image resolution pitch in the sub-scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Koichiro Nakanishi
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Patent number: 12265061Abstract: A device includes a sensor including an emission unit which emits ultrasonic waves and a reception unit which receives the ultrasonic waves, the emission unit and the reception unit being arranged opposite each other across a conveyance path through which a recording material is conveyed, an instruction unit which supplies, to the emission unit, a first drive input or a second drive input larger than the first drive input, and a detection unit which detects information about a grammage of the recording material based on a first value obtained by the reception unit receiving ultrasonic waves emitted from the emission unit with the first drive input supplied thereto and coming not through the recording material and a second value obtained by the reception unit receiving ultrasonic waves emitted from the emission unit with the second drive input supplied thereto and coming through the recording material.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masafumi Monde, Junya Azami, Hiromitsu Kumada, Ryuichi Araki, Mayumi Sakai
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Patent number: 12263689Abstract: Provided is a printing apparatus capable of reducing degradation of print quality. To this end, a chassis that guides movement of a carriage in an X-direction and a bridging member that connects the upper surface of a first sidewall and the upper surface of the chassis engage with and are positioned at a base and secured to the base with fastening members.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kyohei Sato, Masakazu Tsukuda, Yukimichi Kimura, Shingo Horita, Toshiki Hamanishi, Yusuke Nishiya
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Patent number: 12265339Abstract: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus, which utilizes a line head in which a plurality of light-emitting elements is arranged as a light source, includes at least one controller having at least one processor and at least one memory. The controller is configured to obtain print data to perform printing, perform halftone processing for the obtained print data, generate a plurality of pieces of correction information for correcting variations of light amount on a photosensitive body by light radiated from the plurality of light-emitting elements, and correct the print data for which the halftone processing has been performed by using the correction information. The correction information includes various profiles for correcting the variations of light amount.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masashi Oya
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Patent number: 12264722Abstract: A vibration damping apparatus configured to damp a vibration of a target member includes a mass body, a base disposed on the target member, a support member disposed on the base and configured to support the mass body, a housing disposed on the base so as to surround the support member, an elastic member disposed so as to form a space in the housing and configured to apply a force to the support member, and a control unit configured to control a pressure of a fluid in the space by supplying the fluid to the space based on a vibration state of the target member.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masamichi Ueno
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Patent number: 12265206Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power and a second lens unit having a positive refractive power. A distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The first lens unit includes two cemented lenses and each of the two cemented lenses includes a positive lens. Predetermined conditions are satisfied by the zoom lens.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenta Sudo, Masakazu Kodaira