Patents Assigned to Canon Kabushiki
  • Patent number: 12007682
    Abstract: An image stabilization apparatus includes a movable member configured to hold an image stabilization optical element, a fixed member holding the movable member movably in a direction crossing an optical axis, an electrical element mounted on the movable member, and a flexible sheet member electrically connecting the electric element to the fixed member. The flexible sheet member is fixed to the movable member and the fixed member so that the flexible sheet member is bent between the movable member and the fixed member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Noguchi, Toma Kitayama
  • Patent number: 12007709
    Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes: a tubular film; a heater disposed in an inner space of the film; a roller that is in contact with the outer surface of the film and forms a nip between the roller and the film together with the heater; and a holder including an adhesion portion to which the heater adheres through an adhesive and supporting the heater. The image heating apparatus heats, using heat of the heater, an image formed on a recording material held and conveyed by the nip in case where the roller rotates. The adhesion portion includes a surface having an uneven shape of projections and recesses repeating in each of a conveyance direction of the recording material and in a longitudinal direction of the heater perpendicular to the conveyance direction, and a depth of the projections and recesses is 50 ?m to 300 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eiji Uekawa, Atsushi Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 12008277
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus performs processing, which is different from multi-factor authentication processing, on remote access to a function on which the multi-factor authentication processing cannot be performed. In this way, remote access to an image processing function is enabled without performing the multi-factor authentication processing on the remote access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kyohei Takeda
  • Patent number: 12008209
    Abstract: A virtual space management system configured to manage a virtual space in which a plurality of users participates as avatars using client terminals performs control to provide a private content in a display area of a user device object via a client terminal of a second user, based on at least one of a gesture of a first avatar of a first user on both the user device object and a second avatar of the second user in the virtual space, and an operation by the second user in the virtual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuki Shirakawa
  • Patent number: 12008280
    Abstract: A multi-function peripheral (MFP) manages data corresponding to a print job received from an outside, and has a plurality of output management functions including at least a first output management function and a second output management function different from the first output management function as output management functions of outputting the managed data in accordance with an operation performed by a user. The MFP sets which output management function of the plurality of output management functions handles a print job that satisfies a predetermined condition based on a user operation and, in a case where a print job that satisfies the predetermined condition is received, performs control such that data corresponding to the received print job is managed in association with the set output management function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takashi Okazawa
  • Patent number: 12007567
    Abstract: A display device configured to be used in a state of being fixed to a head of a user, includes: a camera; a display configured to display a part of an image captured by the camera as a display range; an orientation detection sensor configured to detect an orientation of the display device; a line-of-sight detection sensor configured to detect a line-of-sight of the user to the display; and a processor configured not to control a position of the display range based on the line-of-sight detected by the line-of-sight detection sensor in a case where a change amount of the orientation detected by the orientation detection sensor is smaller than a predetermined amount, and to control the position of the display range based on the line-of-sight in a case where the change amount of the orientation is larger than the predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Sakamaki, Tatsuya Hanayama, Atsushi Sugawara, Kaori Tomura, Yosuke Fukai, Yusuke Toriumi
  • Patent number: 12007541
    Abstract: A zoom lens ZL includes: a first lens unit L1 having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit L2 having a negative refractive power, and a third lens unit L3 having a positive refractive power, an N?1th lens unit, and an Nth lens unit, the lens units being arranged in order from an object side to an image side. The N?1th lens unit and the Nth lens unit are located on the image side with respect to an aperture stop SP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shohei Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 12008052
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of encapsulating images in a file, wherein the method comprises determining a grouping type based on a capture mode of the images; generating a grouping data structure describing the images as a group, the grouping data structure comprising image identifiers of the images of the group; and embedding the grouping data structure, the grouping type and the images in the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naël Ouedraogo, Frédéric Maze, Franck Denoual, Hervé Ruellan, Masahiko Takaku
  • Patent number: 12007752
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for controlling display on a user interface includes an acquisition unit, and a display control unit. The acquisition unit acquires information including an operated state indicating a state regarding an operation performed on each of a plurality of apparatuses, and an operating state indicating a state regarding an operating status of each of the plurality of apparatuses. The display control unit controls display of the information regarding an apparatus identified from among the plurality of apparatuses on the user interface, based on the information including the operated state and the operating state acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenta Kita
  • Patent number: 12007698
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire process information about a substrate process, the process information including process data and a process condition, and a display control unit configured to control a display on a display apparatus based on the process information acquired by the acquisition unit, wherein the display control unit selectively displays, on the display apparatus, a first screen that displays the process data of a lot including a plurality of substrates on a lot-by-lot basis and a second screen that displays the process data of a first lot on a substrate-by-substrate basis, the first lot being a lot designated by a user from the lot displayed on the first screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Takiguchi, Kenta Kita
  • Patent number: 12010421
    Abstract: An accessory apparatus, removably attached between an image capturing apparatus and an interchangeable lens, performs first communication with the image capturing apparatus and second communication with the interchangeable lens, and accepts a predetermined operation for operating a predetermined function that assists an autofocus (AF) operation. The accessory apparatus implements the predetermined function by controlling transmission of a control command to the interchangeable lens based on the predetermined operation and the control command for the AF operation accepted from the image capturing apparatus. To control the transmission of the control command, the accessory apparatus does not transmit a control amount included in the control command and pertaining to focus for the AF operation to the interchangeable lens, or changes the control amount and transmits the control amount changed to the interchangeable lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi Sugita
  • Patent number: 12008274
    Abstract: In printing of a print job to be inspected using a pre-printed sheet having information printed thereon in advance, control is performed so as not to register a reference image based on image data that is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Mutsuno
  • Patent number: 12007711
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, an oblique movement correcting portion including a first registration roller pair and a first moving portion, a reversing portion, and a re-feeding portion. The reversing portion includes a reversing roller pair and a second moving portion. The re-feeding portion includes a second registration roller pair. When an image is formed on a second surface of a sheet opposite from a first surface of the sheet, a side end position of the sheet is corrected by the second moving portion and oblique movement of the sheet is corrected, and then the side end position of the sheet is corrected again by the first moving means and the sheet is fed to the image forming portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Yoshida, Kenichi Hirota
  • Patent number: 12010275
    Abstract: In a case where an image processing apparatus and a terminal display screens in an associated manner, if the terminal receives a user operation in a state where an enlarged screen is displayed only on the terminal, and the terminal transmits information about the operation as it is to the image processing apparatus, processing not intended by the user may possibly be performed. Therefore, when the terminal receives a user operation in a state where an enlarged screen is displayed only on the terminal, the terminal does not transmit the operation information as it is to the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shodai Yano
  • Patent number: 12010419
    Abstract: A control apparatus comprises a determination unit configured to, in a case where a user operation for removing an image capturing apparatus being a control target from the control target is performed, determine whether or not the image capturing apparatus is executing a specific function, and a control unit configured to, in a case where the determination unit determines that the image capturing apparatus is executing the specific function, cause the image capturing apparatus to stop the specific function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenshiro Mizuma
  • Patent number: 12008272
    Abstract: A printing apparatus stores a setting value group including a plurality of setting values corresponding to a plurality of setting items including a security setting item specific to the printing apparatus in association with a first use environment and a setting value group including a plurality of setting values corresponding to a plurality of setting items not including the security setting item specific to the printing apparatus in association with a second use environment. The printing apparatus accepts information indicating a selection result specifying a use environment of the printing apparatus. A setting value of the printing apparatus is changed based on the setting value group corresponding to the first use environment or the second use environment specified by the information indicating the selection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 12008778
    Abstract: This invention provides an information processing apparatus comprising a first acquiring unit configured to acquire first distance information from a distance sensor, a second acquiring unit configured to acquire an image from an image capturing device, a holding unit configured to hold a learning model for estimating distance information from images, an estimating unit configured to estimate second distance information corresponding to the image acquired by the second acquiring unit using the learning model, and a generating unit configured to generate third distance information based on the first distance information and the second distance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nozomu Kasuya, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Masahiro Suzuki, Daisuke Kotake, Makoto Tomioka
  • Patent number: 12010433
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a composition unit configured to composite a plurality of captured images to generate a composite image, a recording control unit configured to record the captured images or the composite image as a recorded image in a recording unit, and a determination unit configured to determine an imaging mode or a method of composition performed by the composition unit, in which the recording control unit records type data determined on the basis of a result of the determination in association with the recorded image that is captured or composited according to the imaging mode or the method of composition determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akimitsu Yoshida, Hideki Kadoi, Gou Yamashita, Nobukazu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12008773
    Abstract: An object tracking apparatus includes a motion vector calculation unit, a feature amount area determination unit, a reliability evaluation unit, a weight map creation unit, and an object tracking unit. The motion vector calculation unit is configured to calculate a motion vector between images. The feature amount area determination unit is configured to determine an area of an object detected from an image as a feature amount area. The reliability evaluation unit is configured to evaluate a reliability of the motion vector between images and a motion vector in the feature amount area. The weight map creation unit is configured to create a weight map based on the motion vector between images, the reliability, and the motion vector in the feature amount area. The object tracking unit is configured to track the object based on the weight map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuta Kawamura
  • Patent number: 12008283
    Abstract: A printing control apparatus includes a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a transmission destination corresponding to any one of a plurality of different regions where a predetermined cloud print service is provided, a registration request to register the printing control apparatus in the predetermined cloud print service, and a setting unit configured to set the transmission destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ritsuto Sako