Canon Patents
Canon Inc. manufactures office appliances, including multifunction devices, copying machines, laser printers, and inkjet printers. It also develops imaging systems, such as digital cameras and digital video camcorders, as well as lenses and photographic accessories. Its third-largest product segment is semiconductor lithography equipment.
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Publication number: 20240089447Abstract: The present invention provides an image encoding apparatus for encoding a sequence of images, where the apparatus comprises a prediction unit which generates, for a target block to be encoded having a predetermined size in an image, a predicted image from both an intra-prediction image and an inter-prediction image, and obtains prediction errors that are differences between the target block and the predicted image; a transform unit which frequency-transforms the prediction errors, a quantization unit which quantize, using a quantization matrix, the transform coefficients, and an encoding unit which entropy-encodes quantized transform coefficients, wherein the quantization unit obtains the quantization matrix, using at least one of a predetermined quantization matrix for the intra-prediction and a predetermined quantization matrix for inter-prediction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: CANON KABUSIKI KAISHAInventor: Masato Shima
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Publication number: 20240087833Abstract: An X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray generation apparatus including an X-ray generation tube having an electron gun and a target configured to receive an electron beam from the electron gun to generate X-rays, a support structure supporting the tube, and a deflector configured to deflect the electron beam, an X-ray detector configured to detect the X-rays from the X-ray generation apparatus, and a control apparatus configured to control the X-ray generation apparatus. The support structure supports the tube to permit at least the target to be pivoted in a state in which the deflector is fixed, and the control apparatus determines, based on use amount of the X-ray generation apparatus and/or change of the X-rays generated by the X-ray generation apparatus, whether it is necessary to pivot the target.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: CANON ANELVA CORPORATIONInventor: Yoichi ANDO
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Publication number: 20240081770Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a plurality of projection data based on an output signal from an X-ray detector that rotates around a subject, performs reconstruction filter processing on the plurality of acquired projection data, the reconstruction filter processing being included in reconstruction regarding the plurality of projection data, generates correction information on a sensitivity difference area formed in the plurality of projection data due to differences in sensitivity of the X-ray detector, on the basis of a processing result of the reconstruction filter processing, performs correction processing on the plurality of projection data on the basis of the correction information, and performs reconstruction processing including the reconstruction filter processing on the plurality of projection data subjected to the correction processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Jumpei OGASAWARA, Hajime YOSHIDA, Yasuto HAYATSU, Kunio SHIRAISHI
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Publication number: 20240087111Abstract: A system and method is provided for controlling an acquisition system to obtain, based on a currently acquired set of projection data, a next set of projection data that is to be acquired using a set of learned imaging conditions. The set of learned imaging conditions are, at least in part, based on training data including projection data and dose information. In one embodiment, the initial dose and angle for obtaining the initial set of projection data are chosen at random. In another embodiment, the initial dose and angle for obtaining the initial set of projection data are chosen based on a test scan and a trained neural network for outputting the initial dose and angle using a loss function.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yi HU, Yu-bing CHANG, Haruki IWAI, Joseph MANAK, John BAUMGART, James BEGELMAN
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Publication number: 20240081763Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical device operation method includes a monitoring step and an application step. In the monitoring step, a monitoring apparatus executes first CT imaging on a treatment target person into which a first drug particle with a suppressed onset of a treatment effect is introduced, and monitors an accumulation of the first drug particles in a tissue, based on spectral information acquired by the first CT imaging. In the application step, an application apparatus applies an action for exerting the treatment effect of the first drug particle to the first drug particle accumulating in the tissue, by using as a trigger an event that the accumulation of the first drug particles in the tissue satisfies an objective condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Hiroki TAGUCHI, Shinsuke TSUKAGOSHI, Yohei MINATOYA
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Publication number: 20240085507Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to predict, based on an imaging sequence of magnetic resonance imaging and a relationship between a driving frequency of a gradient field coil and one of a magnet internal pressure and a magnet temperature of a static field magnet, the one of the magnet internal pressure and the magnet temperature at the time of execution of the imaging sequence, adjusts the imaging sequence based on a prediction result, and execute the adjusted imaging sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Yutaka MACHII, Naoyuki FURUDATE, Motohiro MIURA
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Publication number: 20240086294Abstract: Method for graphically providing status information of a data processing system having a plurality of disjunct system statuses, wherein the data processing system is monitored during a predetermined period of time. A donut chart is created which has an inner hole region linked to the one particular system status and an outer region having as many segments as the total number of system statuses in the collection minus one. An area size of the inner hole region and an area size of each segment in the outer region is proportional to the amount of time that the corresponding monitored system status occurred during the predetermined period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Canon Production Printing Holding B.V.Inventors: Pascal A.M.S. HAGENS, Jeroen BLOM
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Publication number: 20240087118Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus according to one embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry trains an attention model by using a medical image and a mask image that is obtained by performing mask processing on a region other than a region of interest in the medical image, trains an image processing model by using the medical image, a heatmap corresponding to the medical image, and an attention feature that indicates attention of the region of interest in the trained attention model, combines, as an attention image processing model, an attention extraction module that includes an attention module for outputting the attention feature and the trained image processing model, performs processing on the medical image by using the attention image processing model, and generates a heatmap for determining a position of a landmark in the medical image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Gengwan LI, Lixin YAN, Qilin XIAO, Shun ZHAO
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Publication number: 20240087746Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical diagnostic imaging apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives a subject's examination information including a case and an examination body part. The processing circuitry acquires a first search result by searching a library that associates an imaging protocol with each case using the subject's case. The processing circuitry acquires a second search result by searching a library that associates a slice condition with each examination body part using the subject's examination body part. The processing circuitry determines an imaging protocol for the subject based on the first search result, and determines a slice condition for the subject based on the second search result. The processing circuitry stores the received examination information and the determined imaging protocol and slice condition in a predetermined library in such a manner as to associate them with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventor: Junichiro ARAOKA
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Publication number: 20240087119Abstract: A medical image diagnosis system includes an imaging apparatus and processing circuitry. The imaging apparatus applies one-time or multiple-time medical imaging to a subject to which a plurality of drugs having a tissue accumulation property, which corresponds to a tissue characteristic, are administered successively or simultaneously. The processing circuitry reconstructs one or a plurality of medical images, based on one or a plurality of set of raw data acquired by the one-time or multiple-time medical imaging. The processing circuitry estimates a tissue characteristic of a target region, based on a spatial distribution of the drugs rendered on the one or the plurality of medical images. The processing circuitry displays the estimated tissue characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Hiroki TAGUCHI, Shinsuke TSUKAGOSHI, Yohei MINATOYA, Ryo OKUDA
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Publication number: 20240081772Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes an imaging apparatus and a processor. The imaging apparatus includes an X-ray tube configured to generate an X ray; and an X-ray detector configured to detect an X ray that has been emitted from the X-ray tube and passed through a subject. The processor obtains an examination protocol including an imaging condition corresponding to contents of an examination for the subject, obtains a camera image in which the subject has been captured, and determines whether at least one examination item corresponding to the examination protocol is executable based on first geometric information and second geometric information, the first geometric information including a geometric positional relation between the subject and the imaging apparatus associated with the examination protocol, and the second geometric information including a geometric positional relation between the subject and the imaging apparatus detected based on the camera image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Rie IKEZAKI, Naoko KURATOMI, Haruki Iwai, Yoshimasa Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11925430Abstract: A sterile bag for covering medical equipment comprises: a barrier section, a flexible body section, and an attaching section. The flexible body section has a tubular shape extending from a proximal end to a distal end thereof, and an outer surface, an inner surface, and an open end. The barrier section is coupled to the proximal end, and the attaching section is formed at the distal end of the flexible body section. The barrier section is a rigid or semirigid component which attaches the sterile bag to a sterile component or to an unsterile component of the medical equipment in a pleaded or folded state. The flexible body section is configured to be deployed over the unsterile component so as to enclose within the inner surface thereof the unsterile component. The unsterile component is connectable to the sterile component through the central opening of the barrier section.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon U.S.A., Inc.Inventors: Badr Elmaanaoui, Matthew Scott Pias, Alexander Altshuler
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Patent number: 11926062Abstract: A continuum robot having at least two independently manipulateable bendable section for advancing the robot through a passage, without contacting fragile elements within the passage, wherein the robot incorporates control algorithms that enable the continuum robot to operate and advance into the passage, as well as the systems and procedures associated with the continuum robot and said functionality.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: Canon U.S.A., Inc., The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.Inventors: Fumitaro Masaki, Franklin King, Nobuhiko Hata, Takahisa Kato
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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: 11926161Abstract: A modular print bar may include at least one first print head module and at least one second print head module. Each print head module may include a base plate with which at least one print head can be connected. At least one first ink supply line for supplying ink to the respective print head may respectively run in the base plates. The print head modules may be firmly connected to a print bar such that a connection can be established between the first ink supply line of the first print head module and the first ink supply line of the second print head module.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Production Printing Holding B.V.Inventors: Florian Hitzlsperger, Ulrich Stöckle
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Patent number: 11925321Abstract: A steerable catheter driven by a robotic controller comprises: a catheter body having a tool channel extending from a proximal to a distal end; and a positioning mechanism configured to be coupled with an imaging device and to be slidably inserted into and/or withdrawn from the catheter body through the tool channel. The positioning mechanism and/or the catheter body include an anti-twist feature configured to interlock the catheter body to the imaging device at the distal end of the catheter body so as to prevent rotation of the imaging device within the tool channel. Anti-twist features include bumps or recesses formed in the tool channel inner surface to be interlocked with one or more features formed on the positioning mechanism outer surface. Position and/or orientation of the imaging device remain substantially unchanged with respect to the tool channel when the catheter body is steered by an actuating force.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon U.S.A., Inc.Inventor: Benedict Shia
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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: 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: 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: 11927655Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry sets a pulse sequence to collect plural echo signals by application of a refocusing pulse more than once after application of an excitation pulse once, and collects data on plural slices that are parallel to each other by executing the pulse sequence more than once. The processing circuitry sets the pulse sequence such that a slice thickness for the refocusing pulse becomes larger than a slice thickness for the excitation pulse, and collects the data on the plural slices by executing the pulse sequence without consecutively collecting data on adjacent ones of the plural slices.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Kondo, Masaaki Umeda, Masanori Ozaki
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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: 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: 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: 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: 11926081Abstract: An injection molding system including an injection molding apparatus that performs injection molding with a mold, and a conveyor apparatus that moves the mold to a position in the injection molding apparatus, wherein the improvement to the injection molding system includes a connection part configured to fix the conveyor apparatus with the injection molding apparatus such that a side surface of the injection molding apparatus and a side surface of the conveyor apparatus facing each other are spaced apart.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Virginia, Inc.Inventors: Koki Kodaira, Yuichi Yanahara
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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: 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: 11927723Abstract: An optical system consists of a front lens unit having a positive or negative refractive power, a diaphragm, and a rear lens unit having a positive refractive power, which are arranged in this order from an object side to an image side. The front lens unit includes an aspherical lens that has a positive refractive power on an optical axis, and is disposed closest to an object. The aspherical lens has an aspherical surface on the object side in which an off-axis radius of curvature is larger than an on-axis radius of curvature. A predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takashi Okada
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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: 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: 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: 11927554Abstract: An inspection apparatus for inspecting an inspection target surface arranged on an inspection plane, includes an X-ray generation tube having a target including an X-ray generation portion that generates X-rays by irradiation with an electron beam, and configured to emit X-rays to the inspection plane; and an X-ray detector configured to detect X-rays emitted from a foreign substance existing on the inspection target surface irradiated with the X-rays from the X-ray generation portion and totally reflected by the inspection target surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON ANELVA CORPORATIONInventor: Takeo Tsukamoto
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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: 11928368Abstract: A control method for controlling a second server apparatus configured to communicate with a first server apparatus and store a program is provided. The first server apparatus is configured to provide a file sharing service. The program provides a function for printing a file having been uploaded to the first server apparatus. The control method includes: acquiring network information of an information processing apparatus accessing the first server apparatus; selecting, based on the acquired network information, a piece of printer information from among pieces of printer information; and performing control for causing the information processing apparatus to display an object displaying the selected piece of printer information and configured for receiving a selection of printer information from among the pieces of printer information.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroaki Hanai
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Patent number: 11929874Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided, the apparatus comprises a first communication interface for performing wireless communication via a network provided by an external access point; a second communication interface for performing wired communication; a unit for setting, in a case where a user operation to set a first communication function for connecting to the external access point via the first communication interface to perform wireless communication has been accepted, a setting indicating that a second communication function for performing wired communication will not be used, and unit for setting, in case where a user operation to cancel the setting of the first communication function has been accepted before the information processing apparatus belongs to the network provided by the external access point, a setting indicating that the second communication function will be used.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ryuji Nagahara
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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
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Patent number: 11928843Abstract: A signal processing apparatus comprises a decoding unit configured to generate a decoded image by decoding lossy compressed image data, and a restoration processing unit configured to perform image restoration processing on the decoded image. The restoration processing unit determines whether or not to perform the restoration processing for each of blocks in the decoded image in accordance with specific image information, and for a block on which it is determined that the restoration processing is to be performed, performs the restoration processing on the basis of an inference made using a coefficient learned in advance.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Dai Miyauchi
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Patent number: 11928369Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a plurality of functions includes: an accepting unit configured to accept selection of one environment from among a plurality of different environments as a use environment of the information processing apparatus; a first notification unit configured to provide a notification of a function which is at least one of the plurality of functions and for which a change in use occurs when a group of set values corresponding to the selected one environment is set in the information processing apparatus; a second notification unit configured to extract a set value related to the change in use from the group of set values and provide a notification of the set value; and a setting unit configured to perform batch setting for the information processing apparatus on the basis of the group of set values in response to an instruction for setting the group of set values.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takumi Maeda
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Patent number: 11928798Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a correction unit, a first detection unit, a second detection unit, and a merging unit. The correction unit is configured to perform correction of a misalignment between a plurality of images captured at exposures different from each other. The first detection unit is configured to detect an inappropriate area from the plurality of images. The second detection unit is configured to detect a feature point for the correction by preferentially using an area other than the inappropriate area of the plurality of images. The merging unit is configured to merge the plurality of images on which the correction has been performed.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Keisuke Yanagisawa
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Patent number: 11929655Abstract: An embodiment includes: a first transport module on which a carriage moves; a second transport module that is configured to be able to move to a position for connecting to the first transport module and on which the carriage is able to move to and from the first transport module; a position detection unit that detects a position in a moving direction of the second transport module and outputs position information; a first control unit that controls motion of the carriage on the first transport module; a second control unit that controls motion of the carriage on the second transport module; a third control unit that controls motion of the second transport module; and a fourth control unit that controls the first to third control units. The fourth control unit corrects a position where the second transport module connects to the first transport module based on the position information.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHIInventors: Hirohisa Ota, Takeshi Yamamoto, Satoru Deguchi, Takashi Shigemori, Kichinosuke Hirokawa, Ryota Okazaki
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Patent number: 11928831Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates shape data on an object included in a first partial space based on one or more captured images obtained from one or more of a plurality of imaging apparatuses and a first parameter corresponding to the first partial space, the first partial space being included in a plurality of partial spaces in an imaging space which is an image capturing target for the plurality of imaging apparatuses, and generates shape data on an object included in a second partial space based on one or more captured images obtained from one or more of the plurality of imaging apparatuses and a second parameter corresponding to the second partial space, the second partial space being included in the plurality of partial spaces, the second parameter being different from the first parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yasufumi Takama
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Patent number: 11929701Abstract: The electronic apparatus including a DC motor that is driven based on a current supplied from a power source, and including: a detection circuit that detects an instantaneous interruption of the power source; an H bridge circuit having an upper arm circuit having two switching elements connected in parallel to the power source and a lower arm circuit having two switching elements connected in parallel to a ground, the upper arm circuit and the lower arm circuit being connected in series, and controlling a current to be supplied to the DC motor; and a switching control circuit that controls the switching element, and in a case where an instantaneous interruption of the power source is detected by the detection circuit, the switching control circuit sets the switching elements of the upper arm circuit to off and sets the switching elements of the lower arm circuit to on.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keiji Harada, Masayuki Hongo
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Patent number: 11928805Abstract: The present invention is directed to making it possible to reduce a possibility of image stitching failures. An information processing apparatus includes a feature extraction unit configured to extract feature points from each of a plurality of images of an object to be inspected captured from a plurality of viewpoints, an image quality evaluation unit configured to, for each of the plurality of images, evaluate whether an image quality based on a predetermined index satisfies allowable conditions for inspection works of the object, and an image stitching unit configured to stitch at least a part of the images, among the plurality of images, having the image quality that satisfies the allowable conditions according to a positional relation based on the feature points.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuaki Kuwabara, Satoru Mamiya
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Patent number: 11930178Abstract: An image encoding apparatus for encoding an image comprises a generation unit configured to generate, from a first quantization matrix having a size of ×N (N is a positive, a second quantization matrix having a size of ×Q (P and Q are positive integers which satisfy P<N<Q, and the size of ×Q indicates a size of P in a horizontal direction and a size of Q in a vertical direction), and a quantization unit configured to quantize transformation coefficients in a sub-block having a size corresponding to the size of ×Q using the second quantization matrix.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masato Shima
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Patent number: 11930266Abstract: A line-of-sight detection apparatus includes a processor, and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the line-of-sight detection apparatus to function as a line-of-sight detection unit configured to detect a position of a line of sight of a user with respect to a display unit, a subject detection unit configured to detect a subject from an image displayed in the display unit, and a correction value determination unit configured to determine a correction value used by the line-of-sight detection unit such that the position of the line of sight detected by the line-of-sight detection unit matches a position of the subject detected by the subject detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshihiro Mizuo
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Patent number: 11930142Abstract: An identification apparatus for identifying a type of a sheet obtains, by a sensor, a plurality of parameters including a parameter concerning a characteristic of the sheet, and identifies the type of the sheet based on a result of inputting the plurality of parameters obtained by the sensor to an estimation model obtained by machine learning using, as input data, parameters corresponding to the parameters which are obtained by the sensor and include a first parameter and a second parameter classified in accordance with whether a value tends to change due to a predetermined element, and also using, as supervised data, a type of a sheet if the parameters are obtained.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Ryutaro Kitagawa
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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: 11930224Abstract: A method of decoding coding blocks of a coding tree unit in an image. The method comprises obtaining the coding tree unit in the image from a bitstream, the coding tree unit having chroma channels and a luma channel; and determining luma split options for the luma channel of the coding tree unit according to dimensions of a region of the coding tree unit. The method also comprises determining chroma split options for the chroma channels of the coding tree unit according to dimensions of a region of the coding tree unit, the chroma split options being different to the luma split options, the allowable chroma split options resulting in chroma intra predicted blocks with a minimum size of 16 samples; and decoding the coding blocks by determining flags from the bitstream to select one of the determined luma split options and one of the determined chroma split options.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Christopher James Rosewarne