Patents Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
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Patent number: 11930141Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising an allocation unit for rearranging an order of original data of a plurality of pages and allocating the original data to book data used to generate a printed product having a book form, a display unit for displaying each of the original data and the book data along one direction on a predetermined display unit, and a setting unit for setting a binding method of the printed product having the book form, wherein the allocation unit changes, based on the setting of the binding method, an arrangement order of the book data to be displayed by the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Seiya Fujinaga
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Patent number: 11930151Abstract: An image processing apparatus that communicates with a chat server for controlling, based on received information indicating a talk room of the chat server and received information corresponding to a user, display of image data received from the user, in the talk room. The image processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive predetermined information corresponding to the user, by transmitting authentication information for the user to log into a chat service, to the chat server, and a storage unit configured to store the predetermined information received by the reception unit, instead of the authentication information, in association with identification information for the user to log into the image processing apparatus. The image data, information indicating the specified talk room, and the predetermined information are transmitted to the chat server.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Akihiro Moriya
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Patent number: 11926498Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet supporting portion, a feeding portion, a conveying portion configured to convey the sheet fed by the feeding portion, a separation member, a returning portion, the returning portion pushing the sheet back toward the sheet supporting portion by moving from a retracting position to a protruding position, and a pressing portion including a contact portion configured to contact the sheet. The pressing portion is configured to press the sheet from above via the contact portion such that the sheet is pushed toward the returning portion in a state where the returning portion is positioned at the protruding position and below the sheet.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiro Hosohara, Tomoya Tateishi
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Patent number: 11926164Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head configured to discharge a liquid, a first liquid reservoir unit configured to store the liquid to be supplied to the recording head, a liquid supply port configured to supply the liquid stored in the first liquid reservoir unit into the recording head, a liquid supply path connecting the first liquid reservoir unit and the liquid supply port, a second reservoir unit, in the recording head, configured to store the liquid supplied from the liquid supply port, and a holding unit configured to hold the liquid supplied from the second reservoir unit, in the recording head, wherein the second reservoir unit includes an opening provided upward in a direction of a gravitational force with respect to the liquid supply port and is configured to supply the liquid to the holding unit, when the recording head is in a posture of performing recording.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tetsu Hamano
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Patent number: 11926485Abstract: A processing system includes a conveyance path including a plurality of conveyance modules configured to convey a carriage, the plurality of conveyance modules being disposed to convey the carriage to a plurality of positions, a processing apparatus configured to perform processing on a work mounted on the carriage, and a control unit configured to control the plurality of conveyance modules and the processing apparatus, wherein the control unit is configured to, in performing the processing on the work at the plurality of positions by the processing apparatus, move the work to the plurality of positions by moving the carriage using the conveyance modules.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryota Okazaki, Satoshi Shioda, Akihiro Hayashi, Takeshi Akehi
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Patent number: 11926152Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a carriage mounted with a printing unit; a first motor configured to move the carriage in a predetermined direction; a second motor configured to move the carriage in the predetermined direction; and a control unit. The control unit executes a first mode in which, when causing the printing unit to perform printing under a first printing condition, the first motor is driven in a first direction and the second motor is driven in the first direction, and a second mode in which, when causing the printing unit to perform printing under a second printing condition different from the first printing condition, the first motor is driven in the first direction and the second motor is driven in the first direction while changing an output ratio between the first motor and the second motor.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryohei Maruyama, Daigo Kuronuma, Masakazu Nagashima, Tomohito Abe, Kenta Iimura, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Naoaki Wada, Kichinosuke Hirokawa, Akira Fujikake, Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Hideyuki Nozawa
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Patent number: 11927910Abstract: A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum supported by a frame, a coupling positioned at an end of the photosensitive drum, with the coupling being configured to receive a driving force for rotating the photosensitive drum. A lever is movably supported by a part of the frame at a position that is adjacent to the end of the photosensitive drum, with the lever being movable between a first position and a second position. As viewed along the axis of the photosensitive drum, an end of the lever is a first distance from the axis of the photosensitive drum when the lever is in the first position, and the end of the lever is a second distance from the axis of the photosensitive drum when the lever is in the second position, with the second distance being greater than the first distance.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryuta Murakami, Daisuke Makiguchi, Goshi Ozaki, Daisuke Abe, Tachio Kawai
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Patent number: 11928217Abstract: An apparatus comprising: a unit configured to verify whether a first region that specifies a verification range of a first boot code and a second region that specifies a verification range of a second boot code have been altered; a unit configured to, when the first region has not been altered, verify whether the first boot code has been altered; a unit configured to, when the first boot code has been altered and the second region has not been altered, verify whether the second boot code has been altered; and a unit configured to, when the second boot code has not been altered, restore the first boot code using the second boot code, wherein the first and second regions are regions that are not rewritten after a start of the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takami Eguchi, Nobuhiro Tagashira, Ayuta Kawazu
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Patent number: 11927883Abstract: A performance monitor determines a performance characteristic of a plurality of dispensers receiving fluid from a reservoir. Each of the plurality of dispensers has an actuator that, when actuated, causes the each of the dispensers to generate a droplet of the fluid. A driver generates a drive command to the actuator to adjust a physical attribute of the droplet based on the performance characteristic to satisfy a performance criteria.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Steven Wayne Burns, Logan L. Simpson, Matthew C. Traub, Adam Shackleton, Whitney Longsine, Brent Andrew Snyder
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Patent number: 11925918Abstract: A silica aggregate includes primary silica particles aggregated, the primary silica particles having an average particle size of 1 nm or more and less than 10 nm, the primary silica particles being crosslinked to each other by a bond containing a siloxane bond.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kengo Kanazaki, Fumio Yamauchi, Teigo Sakakibara, Yoshinori Kotani, Ryoko Ueyama
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Patent number: 11927894Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second image bearing members and first and second developing members. The controller controls to execute first and second controls based on image information in a case that the first developing member is separated from the first image bearing member when an operation in which the image is sequentially transferred to a transferred member from the first and second image bearing members is terminated. The first developing member is started to separate from the first image bearing member in the first control after an end of an image forming area on the first image bearing member in a moving direction passes through the first transfer position, and in the second control after the end of the image forming area on the first image bearing member in the moving direction passes through the developing position and before the end of the image forming area reaches the first transfer position.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takao Kume, Satoshi Nishida, Isamu Takeda, Takanori Mitani
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Patent number: 11927540Abstract: An apparatus according to the present disclosure acquires a display condition for displaying at least a part of target data as a display image on a display device, determines, in a case where the display image is changed, whether to store the display condition according to a changed display image in a storage device, based on an index relating to the change of the display image, and stores, in a case where the display condition is determined to be stored, the display condition according to the changed display image in the storage device.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shoichi Hoshino, Masakazu Matsugu, Yusuke Mitarai, Atsushi Nogami
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Patent number: 11927904Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic belt of an endless shape including a substrate, wherein the substrate contains a polyimide resin and carbon nanotubes, wherein a content of the carbon nanotubes in the substrate is 15 vol % or less with respect to a total volume of the polyimide resin, wherein the substrate has a tensile strength of 200 MPa or more in each of a peripheral direction thereof and a direction perpendicular to the peripheral direction, and wherein the substrate has a thermal conductivity of 0.9 W/(m·K) or more in a thickness direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akeshi Asaka, Taiki Watanabe, Yuma Kobayashi, Hidetaka Kawamura, Satoru Nishiuma, Akihiro Taya, Ryunosuke Kawahara
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Patent number: 11927913Abstract: A cartridge unit includes: a first unit which includes a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion; and a second unit which includes a first supported portion, a second supported portion, and a storage member, the storage member including a memory contact, and a contact arrangement surface on which the memory contact is disposed. The second unit rotates from a first position to a second position in a state in which the first supported portion is supported by the first supporting portion and the second supported portion is supported by the second supporting portion to be positioned with respect to the first unit. A normal direction of the contact arrangement surface faces toward a direction in which the memory contact is exposed. The normal direction faces toward a direction opposite to a direction in which the second unit is directed from the first position to the second position.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Noriyuki Komatsu, Teruhiko Sasaki, Tomonori Mori, Makoto Hayashida
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Patent number: 11926146Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording unit, a conveyance unit, an application amount information acquisition unit, a determination unit, a direction information acquisition unit, and a setting unit. The recording unit performs recording by applying ink to paper. The application amount information acquisition unit acquires information related to an amount of ink that the recording unit applies to a predetermined region of the paper. The determination unit determines execution of prevention or reduction processing for preventing or reducing curling occurring after recording is performed. The determination is made according to the acquired amount of ink. The direction information acquisition unit acquires information indicating a paper grain direction of the paper relative to a conveyance direction in which the conveyance unit conveys the paper.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Asako Tomida, Norihiro Kawatoko, Masashi Hayashi, Kentaro Muro, Toshiaki Somano, Shuichi Tokuda
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Patent number: 11928148Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a decoder, a managing unit which manages storage of history information relating to communication with an image capturing apparatus, a receiving unit which, in a case of communication with the image capturing apparatus, receives an image file held in the image capturing apparatus and saves the image file to a predetermined storage unit; and a display control unit which controls a display of an image of the image file saved to the storage unit, wherein, when displaying an image file stored in the storage unit, the display control unit extracts, from the image file, identification information of the image capturing apparatus, and, based on the extracted identification information and the managed history information, determines whether or not to use the decoder to decode the image file.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuichi Kinoshita
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Patent number: 11930269Abstract: A lens apparatus attachable to an image pickup apparatus includes an imaging optical system, and a communicator configured to communicate with the image pickup apparatus. The communicator transmits to the image pickup apparatus first information used to calculate a depth of field and second information used to normalize the depth of field into a display format of a display unit of the image pickup apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Fuya Mizuochi
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Patent number: 11926150Abstract: A sheet stacking apparatus is provided. A conveyor unit performs stacking of sheets discharged from a printing apparatus and conveying of stacked sheets. A detection unit detects whether or not the printing apparatus is currently discharging a sheet. A control unit, so as to secure a stacking space for a sheet discharged from the printing apparatus on the conveyor unit, controls a feeding operation of the conveyor unit correspondingly to a period of time over which the detection unit detected that the printing apparatus is discharging a sheet.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kengo Nieda
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Patent number: 11928527Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first obtaining unit that references a first storage unit and obtains a communication method of communication data corresponding to a transmission source information and transmission destination information included in data received by a reception unit, and a second obtaining unit that references a second storage unit and obtains the content of transmission destination corresponding to the transmission source information and the transmission destination information included in the received data. The content of the transmission destination indicates destination information used in the obtained communication method, and a transmission unit transmits, to a container or a process of the transmission destination indicated by the transmission source information included in the received data, the communication data according to the communication method obtained by the first obtaining unit and the content of transmission destination obtained by the second obtaining unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masahiro Kajimoto
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Patent number: 11928560Abstract: A system monitoring a plurality of models generated through machine learning includes a monitoring unit that perform warning of a specific item of an input corresponding to a predetermined condition if a prediction result by a first model using the input including a plurality of values satisfies the predetermined condition, and a provision unit that provides a message prompting setting of a condition which is a monitoring target by the monitoring unit in the specific item with regard to a second model different from the first model. The provision unit provides the message in at least one of a case in which the predetermined condition is set for the first model, a case in which the prediction result by the first model is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition, and a case in which the second model is registered in the system.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nao Funane