Patents Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 11964838
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit configured to print an image on a sheet; a first exit path from which the sheet with the image printed thereon by the printing unit is discharged while being reversed; a second exit path from which the sheet with the image printed thereon by the printing unit is discharged without being reversed; and a switch member configured to be pivotably arranged so as to switch between the first exit path and the second exit path. The first exit path passes above a pivot center of the switch member, and the second exit path passes below the pivot center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Asano, Takeshi Koda, Toshiro Sugiyama, Waichiro Saiki, Tomohiro Suzuki, Ryo Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Nagase
  • Patent number: 11966174
    Abstract: An electrophotographic member including an electro-conductive substrate, an elastic layer, and a surface layer, the surface layer containing a fine particle and a binder resin, and having a thickness of less than 1.0 ?m, the fine particles having an average particle diameter of from 0.1 ?m to 0.9 ?m, the fine particles having a volume occupancy of 60 vol % to 99 vol % with respect to 100 vol % of the binder resin in the surface layer, the elastic modulus E1 of the fine particle being 1,000 MPa or more, and the elastic modulus E2 of the binder resin being 2 MPa to 200 MPa, and MD-1 hardness H1 of the surface layer being 50° to 100°, and a difference (H1?H2) between the H1 and MD-1 hardness H2 of the elastic layer being 5° or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Koyanagi, Takuho Sato
  • Patent number: 11964841
    Abstract: A feeding apparatus includes a feeding roller that comes in contact with one of stacked printing media and feeds the printing medium; a support member that supports the feeding roller; an inclined portion that is arranged downstream of the feeding roller in a feeding direction in which the printing medium is fed, the inclined portion being inclined with respect to the stacked printing media; and a restriction member that is arranged downstream of the feeding roller in the feeding direction, the restriction member being capable of coming in contact with the printing medium fed by the feeding roller. The restriction member is provided independently from the support member and is capable of moving between a first position and a second position, the first position being set adjacent to a downstream region of the inclined portion in the feeding direction, the second position being set between the first position and the feeding roller with respect to the feeding direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yukimichi Kimura
  • Patent number: 11966185
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion including a photosensitive member and a developing portion, a sheet accommodating portion, a sheet feeding portion, and a first frame. The first frame includes an upper space supporting the image forming portion, and a lower space under the upper space. A second frame is mountable to a lower portion of said first frame. The accommodating portion and the feeding portion are replaceable with a supply container containing toner to be supplied to a developing portion of the image forming portion, in which the second frame supports the accommodating portion and the feeding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Fuse, Yuji Nakayashiki
  • Patent number: 11964421
    Abstract: A method of loading a superstrate onto a superstrate chuck includes raising a plurality of pins located radially outward of a substrate chuck from a retracted position to a receiving position, placing the superstrate onto the plurality of pins while the plurality of pins are in the receiving position, and coupling the superstrate with the superstrate chuck while the superstrate is on the plurality of pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Byung-Jin Choi, Masaki Saito
  • Patent number: 11968444
    Abstract: A control apparatus capable of setting a suitable correction parameter while reducing user's troublesome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Azusa Oka, Mitsuru Tada
  • Patent number: 11967040
    Abstract: An object of the technique of the present disclosure is to obtain a demosaic network whose robustness for noise is high. In the technique of the present disclosure, first, a data set including a set of a teacher image with noise and a pupil image with noise is generated. Then, learning of a demosaic network is performed by using an image pair of the teacher image with noise and the pupil image with noise, to both of which noise is added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toru Kokura
  • Patent number: 11967107
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate map information including a position of a feature point and identification information on an index in an image of a real space captured by a capturing apparatus, a collation unit configured to collate the identification information on the index in the generated map information with the identification information on the index in one or more pieces of registered map information, and to extract map information from the one or more pieces of registered map information based on a result of the collation, and an estimation unit configured to estimate a position and orientation of the capturing apparatus based on the position of the feature point in the extracted map information and the position of the feature point in the generated map information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuki Takemoto
  • Patent number: 11966193
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis of the photosensitive drum and a gear at least a part of which is uncovered to outside of the cartridge and faces an axis of the photosensitive drum, with the gear being positioned at a first side of the cartridge in an axial direction of the photosensitive drum. A lever is movable between a first position and a second position such that an end of the lever is movable toward and away from the gear and the axis of the photosensitive drum. The cartridge also includes a frame supporting the photosensitive drum, the lever, and the development roller, with the frame including a first projecting portion and a second projecting portion at the first side of the cartridge, and the first projecting portion and the second projecting portion projecting away from a second side of the cartridge that is opposite to the first side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Goshi Ozaki, Ryota Shibuya
  • Patent number: 11968161
    Abstract: To reduce user effort in setting notifications based on information from a plurality of devices. A setting method includes registering a plurality of devices, registering devices in the plurality of devices in association with groups, and changing settings of a plurality of notifications to be transmitted to a display of the information processing apparatus, the notifications based on information from a plurality of devices associated with a group, where the settings are changed in such a manner that for each of the devices in the group, the settings are changed all at once, without changing a setting of another notification to be transmitted to the display of the information processing apparatus, the other notification based on information from a device of the plurality of devices that is not in the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takuya Ushinohama
  • Patent number: 11966191
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of photosensitive members, a support frame configured to support the plurality of photosensitive members, and an electric unit including a first electric board and a second electric board, and fixed to the support frame. The electric unit includes a first supporting portion extending in an arrangement direction of the plurality of photosensitive members, a second supporting portion extending in the arrangement direction, and a board holding portion configured to hold the first electric board and the second electric board and bridged between the first supporting portion and the second supporting portion. The first electric board is positioned in the image forming apparatus more inward than at least one of the first supporting portion or the second supporting portion in a direction orthogonal to the arrangement direction and a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigeharu Kurita
  • Patent number: 11967013
    Abstract: An image processing method of holding a plurality of texture data for applying a metal representation on an image. The method includes acquiring predetermined information concerning at least one of an observation distance as a distance between a print product on which a target region is printed and an observer observing the print product, a sheet on which the target region is printed, or an environment in which the print product is observed, selecting texture data from the plurality of texture data based on the acquired predetermined information, and applying, to the target region, the texture data selected in the selecting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Minami, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Hideki Kubo, Takeru Sasaki, Kazuya Ogasawara, Masao Kato
  • Patent number: 11966644
    Abstract: A printing apparatus is provided. The apparatus stores user identification information of a registered user in a storage, obtains a print job including user information of an owner of the print job from a printing service system. When the print job obtained is a first print job in which the owner of the print job obtained does not correspond to the user identification information stored in the storage and is obtained from the printing service system, the apparatus executes the print job according to a setting for allowing or denying printing using the first print job and performs printing via a printing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsubasa Hirano
  • Patent number: 11964492
    Abstract: A stirring element to stir liquid includes a rod-shaped body configured to have a magnetic force at a first end portion and to have a magnet force at a second end portion opposite to the first end portion in a longitudinal direction, a first blade configured to extend on the first end portion of the rod-shaped body, and a second blade configured to extend on the second end portion of the rod-shaped body. The first blade and the second blade each have a plate shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tokisawa, Takashi Abe
  • Patent number: 11966155
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image capturing unit, a shutter button with which to give an image capturing instruction, a specific operation member, a reception unit configured to receive a line-of-sight input that is an input of a position based on a line of sight of a user, and a control unit configured to perform control so that, in a case where a predetermined operation on the specific operation member is not performed while a specific operation on the shutter button is being performed, a specified position is not moved based on the line-of-sight input in a case where a line-of-sight position of the line-of-sight input moves, and in a case where the predetermined operation on the specific operation member is performed while the specific operation on the shutter button is being performed, the specified position is moved based on the line-of-sight position of the line-of-sight input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Sudo
  • Patent number: 11966043
    Abstract: An imaging optical system comprises adjusters for adjusting a shape of each of at least two reflecting surfaces by applying a force to a rear surface of each of the reflecting surfaces. Points obtained by projecting force acting points of the adjusters in an optical axis direction defined with respect to the reflecting surface are defined as correction points, the acting points are set such that, when first and second rays in a light flux emitted from one point on the object plane are reflected by first and second reflecting surfaces, the first ray strikes the correction point of the first reflecting surface but does not strike the correction point of the second reflecting surface, and the second ray does not strike the correction point of the first reflecting surface but strikes the correction point of the second reflecting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Michio Kono
  • Patent number: 11968445
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes at least one processor configured to acquire information corresponding to a position at which an observer stares, wherein the information indicates a shift in the position, and control a display unit to display an indicator corresponding to the position, wherein, in a case where a shift in the position is continuously smaller than a first threshold a first number of times, a display position of the indicator is not shifted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihito Tamaki
  • Patent number: 11964486
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a recording element substrate including an energy generating element configured to generate energy for ejecting liquid from an ejection port; an electrical wiring board electrically connected to the recording element substrate to supply an electric signal for driving the energy generating element; a first support member supporting the recording element substrate; and a second support member supporting the first support member and having a greater linear expansion coefficient than that of the electrical wiring board. The electrical wiring board is bonded to a first surface of the first support member and a second surface of the second support member, and an adhesive that bonds the electrical wiring board to the second surface has a lower elastic modulus than that of an adhesive that bonds the electrical wiring board to the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takuya Iwano
  • Patent number: 11966099
    Abstract: A converter lens includes three or more negative lenses and increases the focal length of an entire system, in which an average refractive index Ndave at the d-line (wavelength of 587.56 nm) of a material of all the negative lenses included in the converter lens is defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinya Okuoka
  • Patent number: D1024190
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ayaka Odachi, Takahiro Yamamoto