Patents Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 12197647
    Abstract: An information processing system determines motion of a hand of a user on the basis of inertial information of a controller held in or mounted on the hand. The information processing system controls a display unit to display a virtual space in which a virtual interface is placed in a real space. The information processing system determines, on the basis of an image-captured image in which the hand is image-captured, whether or not a position of the virtual interface and a position of the hand are in a particular relation. In a case in which the position of the virtual interface and the position of the hand are determined to be in the particular relation in the virtual space, the information processing system changes the display of the virtual interface on the basis of the motion of the hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nao Fujita
  • Patent number: 12200177
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus, a control method, and a storage medium that inform of an error that occurs in one processing without stopping the other processing during setup by parallel processing. To this end, in the setup performed by the parallel processing, the error that occurs in the one processing is informed after it is confirmed that the other processing is not affected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Haruna Minegishi
  • Patent number: 12197796
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus configured to include an execution function of performing authentication processing on a user and executing a stored job, which is stored in a storage device in association with the user, based on a success of the authentication processing without an instruction from the user includes one or more memories, and one or more processors that execute a set of instructions to receive a job execution request to execute a job different from the stored job from an information processing terminal, and in a case where the job execution request is received and the authentication processing using user information included in the job execution request is successful, control execution of the execution function of executing the stored job without the instruction from the user to prevent the execution function from being executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoru Nakajima
  • Patent number: 12200340
    Abstract: A device, which complies with a predetermined standard and is mounted in an image capturing apparatus including a mounting part capable of attaching/detaching the device, comprises a storage capable of storing an image captured by the image capturing apparatus and a processing function for executing image analysis processing for image data based on the image. The device obtains, from the image capturing apparatus in accordance with the predetermined standard, the image data and a command used by the image capturing apparatus to output the image data to the device, and controls, based on whether a value associated with the image analysis processing is stored in the obtained command, whether to cause the processing function to execute the image analysis processing for the image data or cause the storage to store the image data without executing the image analysis processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kentaro Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 12197170
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin, and an ester wax A having a specific structure, wherein in a diffraction spectrum obtained by an X-ray diffractometer after the toner has been allowed to stand at 120° C. for 5 minutes and then at 60° C. for 5 minutes, assuming that a spectrum having a maximum peak in a range where 2? is from 5.45° to 5.95° is P1 and an integrated intensity of the P1 is S1, and a spectrum having a maximum peak in a range where 2? is from 21.45° to 21.95° is P2 and an integrated intensity of the P2 is S2, relationships of formulas (2) and (3) below are satisfied. S1/S2?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Komiya, Kosuke Fukudome, Dai Nozaki, Kozue Uratani, Takuya Mizuguchi, Tomoko Sugita
  • Patent number: 12187061
    Abstract: A thermosensitive recording medium 100 includes a support 50, and a first thermosensitive coloring layer 10, a first intermediate layer 15, and a second thermosensitive coloring layer 20 disposed on the support 50 in descending order of distance from the support 50. The first thermosensitive coloring layer 10 and the second thermosensitive coloring layer 20 each contain an electron-donating dye precursor, an electron-accepting compound, a radical-polymerizable compound, and a photoradical polymerization initiator, and the first intermediate layer 15 contains a UV absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Taya, Junji Ito, Yasuhiro Aichi, Ayano Mashida, Masanobu Ootsuka, Yutaka Yoshimasa
  • Patent number: 12186105
    Abstract: A subject information acquisition apparatus, comprises: a signal generation unit configured to generate a high-frequency signal corresponding to each of the frequencies; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of detection signals based on at least one of a reflection signal and a transmission signal; a signal selection unit configured to select at least one detection signal from the plurality of detection signals based on an index value of the plurality of detection signals; a coupling amount detecting unit configured to detect a coupling amount of near-field coupling due to an electric field between the antenna and the subject based on a detection signal; and a displacement detecting unit configured to generate a displacement signal indicating a displacement of the subject based on the coupling amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Nanaumi, Kazuya Okamoto, Takafumi Ohishi
  • Patent number: 12189322
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an operation unit including a contact of the operation unit, a voltage control board including a contact of the voltage control board, a wire electrically connecting the voltage control board and the operation unit, a first holding unit configured to hold a first end of the wire electrically connected to the contact of the voltage control board, and a second holding unit configured separately from the first holding unit, the second holding unit configured to hold a second end of the wire electrically connected to the contact of the operation unit. The wire does not linearly connect the first holding unit and the second holding unit. At least one portion, of the wire, between the first holding unit and the second holding unit is not held by the first holding unit and the second holding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryosuke Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12192429
    Abstract: A communication apparatus capable of communicating with an access point includes a memory containing instructions and a processor for executing the instructions to function as a storage unit configured to store, in at least one memory, each of first setting information, which can be changed by a first user and cannot be changed by a second user whose authorization is lower than that of the first user, and second setting information, which can be changed by the second user. The communication apparatus is operated using the first setting information when a predetermined authentication method is used in communication in which connection in which connection between the access point and the communication apparatus is established is used, and the communication apparatus is operated using the second setting information when the predetermined authentication method is not used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei Takaoka, Aran Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 12189483
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a volatile memory and a non-volatile storage capable of storing a main firmware for causing the information processing apparatus to realize the predetermined function and a communication firmware for booting. The information processing apparatus accesses a predetermined server using the communication firmware, obtains recovery firmware, and loads the recovery firmware into a volatile memory. Further, the information processing apparatus obtains an updated main firmware from the predetermined server using the loaded recovery firmware, and updates the main firmware stored in the non-volatile storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masumi Tabuki
  • Patent number: 12187042
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a liquid storing container including a storage chamber configured to store a liquid supplied to a printing unit that prints an image by discharging the liquid, an outlet portion of the liquid, and a channel configured to connect the storage chamber and the outlet portion. The liquid storing container includes a first side portion on a side of a print region where printing is executed by the printing unit, and a second side portion on an opposite side of the first side portion, and the channel is formed in the second side portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koki Shimada, Nobuhiro Toki, Daiju Takeda, Fumie Kameyama, Shota Asada, Ken Takenaga, Yusuke Tanaka, Yuta Araki, Taiji Maruyama, Atsushi Matsuyama, Yusuke Naratani, Kousuke Tanaka, Koya Iwakura, Hideaki Matsumura, Tetsu Hamano
  • Patent number: 12190005
    Abstract: In a cloud print system a print job is transmitted from a client terminal to a second cloud print service via a first cloud print service. The first cloud print service, when registering the second cloud print service as a printer, obtains connection information for connecting to the second cloud print service and registers the second cloud print service as the printer in association with the connection information, and in response to a request from the client terminal, transmits the connection information to the client terminal. The client terminal accesses the second cloud print service based on the connection information and receives a service according to the second cloud print service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masashi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 12193086
    Abstract: A communication apparatus has a communication function for performing wireless communication using one of a first mode of performing first communication with a partner apparatus via another apparatus, a second mode of performing second communication with the partner apparatus not via another apparatus, and a third mode of concurrently performing the first communication and the second communication. When the third mode is the operation mode of the communication function, the communication apparatus controls the communication function so as to activate a function of the second communication after executing processing to establish a connection for the first communication. When the connection has not been established even after a predetermined time has elapsed since the start of connection processing for the first communication, the function for the second communication is activated even if the connection for the first communication has not been established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenichiro Suga
  • Patent number: 12189098
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a subsequent unit. The first lens unit is configured not to move for zooming. A distance between each pair of adjacent lens units changes in zooming. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Abe, Kazuki Someya, Kenta Sudo
  • Patent number: 12192418
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a display control unit that performs control to display any one of multiple menu screens on which multiple menu items are arranged, respectively; a reception unit that receives an instruction to initialize the menu screen designated out of the multiple menu screens; and a control unit that performs control to initialize relevant information, which is information individually held correspondingly to the designated menu screen and includes cookie information used by a Web browser, based on the reception of the instruction of the initialization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Tsukada
  • Patent number: 12192424
    Abstract: A printing system performs control to input sheet information regarding a single set of sheets consisting of a plurality of sheets including a sheet loaded in a sheet feeding unit of a printing apparatus. The printing system performs control to, based on the input sheet information, register the number of sheets corresponding to a single set in management information in which a stock of sheets is managed. The printing system also performs control to, based on consumption of a sheet by the printing apparatus, update information managed in the management information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigeki Hachiro
  • Patent number: 12192430
    Abstract: A system that enables a user to grasp processing status of image data easily. The system includes an image processing apparatus, a server apparatus, and an information terminal. The image processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives image data through fax, and a transmission unit that transmits the image data received by the reception unit to the server apparatus. The server apparatus includes a transfer unit that transfers the image data to the information terminal. The information terminal includes a display unit that displays image data transferred by the transfer unit. The display unit displays information showing that a reply to the image data is completed at a position that does not overlap with the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomonori Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12192422
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a first roller including a first rotation shaft and a first roller portion, an image reading unit, a first guide portion, a second guide portion arranged downstream of the first roller in a sheet conveyance direction, the second guide portion being curved with respect to a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of a first rotation shaft and the sheet conveyance direction, and a second roller. A reading position is located in a region between a first straight line and a second straight line, the first straight line passing through a first end, in the axial direction, of the first roller portion and extending in the sheet conveyance direction, the second straight line passing through a second end, in the axial direction, of the first roller portion and extending in the sheet conveyance direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kakeru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12192417
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a display control unit that can display on a display unit a display screen in the form of tabs including multiple tabs and multiple menu screens corresponding to the multiple tabs, respectively, and that displays on the display unit a display screen including a menu screen corresponding to a predetermined tab in accordance with that the predetermined tab is selected on the display screen, in which after the display control unit is activated in accordance with a power-on operation on the control apparatus, the display control unit displays on the display unit a display screen including a menu screen corresponding to a target tab displayed last before the control apparatus is powered off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hayato Shirai
  • Patent number: 12190527
    Abstract: An image processing device that acquires an image and detects a subject. The image processing device includes at least one processor and a memory holding a program that causes the processor to function as a detection unit configured to detect a plurality of parts related to a same subject within the image, a determination unit configured to determine a priority part from the plurality of parts detected by the detection unit, and an extension unit configured to extend a region of the subject corresponding to a first part from the first part determined as the priority part in a direction of a second part that is different from the first part among the plurality of parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuta Kawamura