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: 20250009343Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry includes: transmitter/receiver circuitry configured to transmit an ultrasound wave to the inside of an examined subject and to receive an echo signal emitted in response to the ultrasound wave; and processing circuitry configured to extract, with respect to each spatial point, information that is related to motion velocity of a target inside the examined subject and included in a signal data sequence obtained from the echo signal, to calculate periodicity information of a movement of the examined subject on the basis of the information, and to generate a spatial distribution of the periodicity information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki TAKAHASHI, Tetsuya YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20250012937Abstract: A method of determining a position offset includes receiving a first detection result from a first pixel of a plurality of pixels of a radiation detector, wherein the plurality of pixels are disposed on an incident side of the radiation detector on which an anti-scatter grid (ASG) is arranged, the plurality of pixels being aligned in at least a channel direction; receiving a second detection result from a second pixel of the plurality of pixels, wherein a septa of the ASG is arranged over a portion of the first pixel but is not arranged over any portion of the second pixel as viewed from the incident side of the radiation detector; estimating a positional offset of the septa of the ASG, based on the first detection result and the second detection result.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2023Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Xiaohui ZHAN, Ruoqiao ZHANG, Ilmar HEIN
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Publication number: 20250012934Abstract: According to one embodiment, a positron emission tomography (PET) apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain a plurality of items of detection data each corresponding to a depth at which a gamma ray has caused an interaction in a plurality of depth-of-interaction (DOI) detectors. The processing circuitry is configured to calibrate the plurality of DOI detectors based on each of the obtained plurality of items of detection data and an ideal distribution of the plurality of items of detection data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventor: Motohiro INOUE
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Patent number: 12193086Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenichiro Suga
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Patent number: 12193134Abstract: X-ray generating apparatus includes X-ray generating unit having first and second bottom surfaces and side surface; driving circuit; accommodation housing accommodating the X-ray generating unit and the driving circuit; and insulating component arranged in the accommodation housing and having first insulating member arranged between the driving circuit and the accommodation housing and second insulating member arranged between the X-ray generating unit and the accommodation housing. First space is defined between the first insulating member and the accommodation housing, second space is defined between the second insulating member and the accommodation housing, third space is defined between the side surface and the second insulating member, fourth space is defined by the second bottom surface and internal surface of the first insulating member. The second space communicates with the third space, the first space communicates with the fourth space.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2024Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Anelva CorporationInventors: Junya Kawase, Hiroshi Saito
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Patent number: 12189322Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ryosuke Takahashi
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Patent number: 12191108Abstract: According to one embodiment, in an X-ray tube, an electron convergence cup has a first surface located closer to the anode, and an electron convergence groove opening on the first surface and housing a filament. The first surface has a first edge located on the opening, and a second edge located on the opening and opposite to the first edge in a first direction. The first edge is closer to an outer peripheral part than the second edge is. When the distance between the first edge and the filament in the first direction is defined as a first distance and the distance between the second edge and the filament in the first direction is defined as a second distance, the first distance is shorter than the second distance.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON ELECTRON TUBES & DEVICES CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsunori Shimizu, Hisayuki Tamura, Akihiro Sasabe
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Patent number: 12192417Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 19, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hayato Shirai
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Patent number: 12187061Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihiro Taya, Junji Ito, Yasuhiro Aichi, Ayano Mashida, Masanobu Ootsuka, Yutaka Yoshimasa
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Patent number: 12190005Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 12, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masashi Nakagawa
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Patent number: 12189007Abstract: A radio frequency coil apparatus according to an embodiment is a radio frequency coil apparatus to be disposed in a bore of a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and including processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a nuclear magnetic resonance signal generated from a subject placed in the bore. The processing circuitry supplies voltage to a constituent component of the radio frequency coil apparatus by using a switching regulator and a linear regulator. The processing circuitry selectively drives the switching regulator and the linear regulator based on an imaging sequence of the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus. The processing circuitry drives the linear regulator in a first duration including a duration in which the nuclear magnetic resonance signal is acquired, and drives the switching regulator in a second duration other than the first duration.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Yu Tanaka
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Patent number: 12190475Abstract: An information processing apparatus, which determines a leaning of an object image in a case of inserting the object image into a predetermined area included in a captured image, includes: a detection unit configured to detect the predetermined area from the captured image; a generation unit configured to generate a rectangle that includes the predetermined area detected by the detection unit; and a determination unit configured to determine a leaning of the rectangle relative to a horizontal line or perpendicular line of the captured image as the leaning to be used for inserting the object.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Ryoya Kawai
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Patent number: 12192430Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomonori Hayashi
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Patent number: 12191786Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes: a motor configured to drive a load; and a control unit configured to control the motor. The control unit is configured to, when activating the motor, determine whether a predetermined condition for determining that fluctuation in magnitude of the load occurs is satisfied, activate the motor in a first mode when the predetermined condition is satisfied, and activate the motor in a second mode when the predetermined condition is not satisfied, and the first mode is a mode in which an increase in rotation speed of the motor is gentler than an increase in rotation speed of the motor in the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masatoshi Itoh
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Patent number: 12192429Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 20, 2024Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kohei Takaoka, Aran Kunimatsu
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Patent number: 12189329Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, an image bearing member unit, a transfer member, a supporting member, and a positioning member. The image bearing member unit and the transfer member are disposed attachable to and detachable from the apparatus main body. The supporting member includes a to-be-contacted portion configured to be in contact with a to-contact portion of the image bearing member unit. The to-be-contacted portion is movable from a first position to a second position by an attachment operation of the image bearing member unit to the apparatus main body, where the first position is a position to be in contact with the to-contact portion, the second position is a position different from the first position, and the second position is a position at which the supporting member is supported by the positioning member and the to-be-contacted portion is out of contact with the to-contact portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shuntaro Tezuka
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Patent number: 12187041Abstract: A liquid storage container includes: a discharge port member including a discharge port through which liquid stored in a storage portion is discharged and a coupling portion in which a male thread portion is arranged on the outside; and a cover portion including a female thread portion on the inside and configured to be attachable to the discharge port member, the female thread portion configured to be screwed to the male thread portion, in which the male thread portion is discontinuous in the coupling portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kyosuke Nagaoka, Ryoji Inoue, Noriyasu Nagai, Kenta Udagawa, Hideaki Matsumura, Taiji Maruyama
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Patent number: 12192665Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a first semiconductor substrate including a photoelectric conversion element; and a second semiconductor substrate including at least a part of a peripheral circuit arranged in a main face of the second semiconductor substrate, the peripheral circuit generating a signal based on the charge of the photoelectric conversion element, a main face of the first semiconductor substrate and the main face of the second semiconductor substrate being opposed to each other with sandwiching a wiring structure therebetween; a pad to be connected to an external terminal; and a protection circuit electrically connected to the pad and to the peripheral circuit, wherein the protection circuit is arranged in the main face of the second semiconductor substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Kobayashi, Mineo Shimotsusa
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Patent number: 12192418Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 19, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuyuki Tsukada
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Patent number: 12186953Abstract: A method including a first step of performing clamping of a mold, injection and dwelling in an injection molding machine, a second step of performing a conveyance and a cooling of the mold outside of the machine, and a third step of performing a conveyance of the mold into the machine, an opening of the mold and an ejection of a molded part in the machine. The second step is performed for a first mold, the third step and the next first step are performed for a second mold. The first mold is conveyed by a first conveyance apparatus which is arranged on one lateral side of the machine. The second mold is conveyed by a second conveyance apparatus which is arranged on the other lateral side and is independently driven from the first conveyance apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takashi Nakamura
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Patent number: 12186121Abstract: A medical image diagnostic apparatus of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry executes a scan based on a protocol designated by a user. The processing circuitry extracts a candidate protocol to be executed next to the protocol, based on protocol order information in which identification information that indicates each of a plurality of candidate protocols that can be executed starting from a specific protocol, and order information in which each candidate protocol is executed, are correlated with each other. The processing circuitry outputs the extracted candidate protocol.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Netabayashi, Masaki Yoshida, Kazuki Gatayama
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Patent number: 12189289Abstract: An object is to provide a photo-curable composition having high dry etching resistance and high thermal stability. A photo-curable composition includes at least a polymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator, and further includes at least one of a flame retarder and a flame-retardant polymerizable compound.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiki Ito, Fen Wan
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Patent number: 12190527Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuta Kawamura
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Patent number: 12190133Abstract: An apparatus comprises a receiver configured to receive, as a request for a remaining amount of a consumable item and a color for remaining amount display of the consumable item in the apparatus, information relating to a transmission source of the request, and a transmitter configured to transmit the remaining amount and the color to the transmission source in response to the request. The transmitter is configured to acquire a background color of the remaining amount display in response to the request, and when the background color acquired and a first display color set in advance as the color of the remaining amount display are determined to be close to each other according to a prescribed standard, transmit a second display color different from the first display color and the remaining amount to the transmission source.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toru Kohata
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Patent number: 12189098Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirofumi Abe, Kazuki Someya, Kenta Sudo
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Patent number: 12187039Abstract: A printing apparatus that includes: a first obtaining unit that obtains a usage amount of an expendable from a time point of detection of a situation where a remaining amount of the expendable in an expendable replenishment container is lower than a predetermined value; a second obtaining unit that obtains a remaining amount in a tank; a first determination unit that determines a state of the remaining amount of the expendable by comparing the usage amount obtained by the first obtaining unit and the remaining amount in the tank obtained by the second obtaining unit with thresholds set respectively for the usage amount and the remaining amount; and a detection unit that detects the situation where the remaining amount of the expendable is lower than the predetermined value, in a case where the state determined by the first determination unit is a remaining amount low state.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Koji Suda
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Patent number: 12186105Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignees: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryuichi Nanaumi, Kazuya Okamoto, Takafumi Ohishi
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Patent number: 12192419Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on each of media; a plurality of sheet feeding cassettes each configured to store the media; a media sensor which is provided on a conveyance path through which the media are fed from any of the plurality of sheet feeding cassettes to the image forming unit, and is configured to detect a type of the conveyed media; a memory configured to store, for each sheet feeding cassette, the type of media stored in each of the plurality of sheet feeding cassettes; and a controller configured to output, to a display, a selection screen for selecting a sheet feeding cassette in which media to be used in calibration of adjusting a density of the image to be formed by the image forming unit are stored.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Katsuya Nakama
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Patent number: 12192424Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 1, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shigeki Hachiro
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Patent number: 12193052Abstract: A communication device that forms a first Basic Service Set (BSS) communicates a radio frame including a preamble and a data field of a physical layer (PHY). The preamble includes an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) Signal Field (EHT-SIG-A). The EHT-SIG-A includes a subfield for setting a BSS color, and if the communication device and a first other communication device are to cooperatively transmit the radio frame to a second other communication device, a value of this subfield is set, without changing the BSS color used in a first BSS, based on the BSS color of a second BSS to which the second other communication device belongs.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masatomo Ouchi
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Patent number: 12189102Abstract: 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, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a rear unit that includes a plurality of lens units having negative refractive powers and a plurality of lens units having positive refractive powers, each distance between adjacent lens units changing during zooming. During zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, the first lens unit moves to the object side, and the second lens unit moves to the image side and thereafter moves to the object side. A predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yasuaki Hagiwara
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Patent number: 12192484Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of encapsulating subpicture bitstreams in at least one media file, the subpicture bitstreams corresponding to encoded media data of a subpicture corresponding to a rectangular region of video data, the method comprising: obtaining the plurality of subpicture bitstreams; encapsulating each subpicture bitstream in a subpicture track; generating at least one base track referencing at least two subpicture tracks and forming a spatial arrangement of the at least two subpicture tracks; generating information describing APS referenced by samples of the at least two subpicture tracks; encapsulating the subpicture tracks, the at least one base track and the information describing APS in the at least one media file.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naël Ouedraogo, Franck Denoual, Frédéric Maze, Hervé Ruellan, Lionel Tocze
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Patent number: 12193323Abstract: An organic compound represented by formula [1] or [2]: where X1 to X18 and X21 to X38 are each independently selected from a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an amino group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an aryloxy group, a heteroaryloxy group, a silyl group, and a cyano group, in which at least one of X1 to X8 and at least one of X21 to X28 are substituted or unsubstituted amino groups; and each Y is oxygen, sulfur, selenium, tellurium, or a CR1CR2 group and may be the same or different, in which R1 and R2 are each independently selected from a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an amino group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an aryloxy group, a heteroaryloxy group, a silyl group, or a cyano group.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoki Yamada, Jun Kamatani, Yosuke Nishide, Hirokazu Miyashita
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Patent number: 12189317Abstract: A fixing device for fixing a toner image to the recording medium includes a film unit, a roller, and a frame. The film unit includes a tubular film that rotates while being in contact with the recording medium. The roller is in contact with an outer surface of the tubular film and form a fixing nip portion with the film unit to pinch and convey the recording medium. The frame includes a first side frame to hold one end portion of the film unit and includes a second side frame to hold the other end portion of the film unit. At least one of the first or second side frames includes a first plate and a second plate. The first plate is fixed to the second plate and is disposed on a side of a surface of the second plate orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the fixing device.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takafumi Suzuki
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Patent number: 12186043Abstract: A control system controls an endoscope probe in manual mode or robot mode. The system comprises a handle attached to the probe; a portable display controller connectable to the handle; a robotic controller in communication with the handle and/or the portable display controller; and a support platform to which the probe and the portable device controller are attachable according to control mode. In manual mode, the handle is detached from the platform and connected to the portable display controller such that the probe is manually navigated to a first position inside a lumen. In robot mode, the handle is attached to the platform such that the robotic controller cooperates with the handle to robotically navigate the probe to a second position inside the lumen. The portable display controller includes a control section for manipulating the probe and a display section for displaying images of the lumen acquired in both modes.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignees: Canon U.S.A., Inc., The General Hospital Corporation, The Brigham and Women's Hospital IncorporatedInventors: Charles George Hwang, Yolonda Lorig Colson, Hisashi Tsukada, Jacob Schieffelin Brauer
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Patent number: 12190830Abstract: A display device includes a backlight consisting of a plurality of division areas and a display panel. Emission luminance for each division area is calculated based on input image data, a correction value for correcting the input image data is calculated based on the emission luminance, the input image data is corrected based on the calculated correction value, the transmittance of the display panel is controlled based on the corrected image data, and light emission of each division area is controlled based on the calculated emission luminance. One frame period of the input image consists of a plurality of subframe periods, and a process of calculating the correction value for correcting the input image data based on the emission luminance is divided into a plurality of partial processes, which are sequentially performed by executing each partial process in each subframe period.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Koji Mito
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Patent number: 12189327Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording medium: an upper surface cover which is provided to an upper surface of the image forming apparatus and forms at least a part of an appearance of the image forming apparatus; a first cover which is provided to a front surface of the image forming apparatus and forms at least a part of the appearance of the image forming apparatus; and a second cover which is provided to the front surface of the image forming apparatus so as to be located above the first cover and forms at least a part of the appearance of the image forming apparatus. The first cover includes a resin material. The second cover includes a ferromagnetic material.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaki Kakitani
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Patent number: 12189798Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a first function and a second function which is a function different from the first function, in the first function, sets, to the information processing apparatus, a first setting value group associated with a security policy set to the information processing apparatus, in the second function, sets, to the information processing apparatus, a second setting value group associated with one usage environment selected from among a plurality of usage environments, and in a case where the security policy is currently set to the information processing apparatus in the first function, in the second function, performs control to prevent a setting value group associated with any usage environment in the plurality of usage environments from being set to the information processing apparatus, wherein the first setting value group and the second setting value group include setting values corresponding to an identical setting item.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomohiro Kimura
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Patent number: 12189320Abstract: In the image forming method, a halftone image is generated by performing halftone processing for an input image, a scanned image of a printed material on which on which the halftone image is printed is obtained, and a failure component of an image forming apparatus is identified based on a difference between the scanned image and the input image. In the generation, the halftone image is generated by representing a dot pattern of a halftone portion in a case where the input image is a test image for the failure diagnosis by a dot pattern whose frequency is relatively higher than that of a dot pattern that is applied to the halftone portion in a case where the input image is an image other than the test image.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinya Suzuki
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Patent number: 12191325Abstract: An apparatus includes pixels on a substrate. Each pixel includes a first portion, a second, and a microlens. The substrate has a first surface on an incidence side and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and includes an inter-pixel portion isolating adjacent pixels from each other, and an intra-pixel portion isolating the first and second portions from each other. The inter-pixel portion includes a first region located adjacently to the first surface, and a second region located adjacently to the second surface. The intra-pixel portion includes a third region located adjacently to the first surface, and a fourth region located adjacently to the second surface. The first and third regions are shifted with respect to the second and fourth regions, respectively, in an identical direction that is a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the intra-pixel portion in plan view from the first surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuya Igarashi, Hajime Ikeda, Shunichi Wakashima, Kohei Okamoto, Koichi Fukuda
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Patent number: 12192422Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kakeru Takahashi
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Patent number: 12192660Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device includes a photoelectric converter, a first node configured to be supplied with charges from the photoelectric converter, an amplification transistor configured to output a signal corresponding to a voltage of the first node, a first transistor configured to open/close a path between the first node and a second node not included in a path from the photoelectric converter to the first node, and a second transistor configured to open/close a path between the second node and a third node. A second capacitance which is added to the second node when the second transistor is set in a conductive state is larger than a first capacitance which is added to the first node when the first transistor is set in a conductive state.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yusuke Onuki
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Patent number: 12192433Abstract: Based on scanned data obtained by a scan unit reading a first chart printed and output by a printing unit and colorimetric data obtained by a colorimetry unit measuring the first chart, correction information for correcting a sensed value of the scan unit is generated. The first chart includes a patch extending in a main scanning direction substantially perpendicular to a sheet conveyance direction and having a uniform density, and a position adjustment pattern formed outside the patch for identifying a position in the main scanning direction on the patch. A first generation unit generates the correction information by causing a pixel position of an end portion of the patch in the scanned data and a colorimetry position of an end portion of the patch in the colorimetric data to correspond to each other and determining a corrected value of the sensed value at a specific pixel position.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Naoya Takesue
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Patent number: 12192268Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided with a first connection unit configured to perform connection to a first cloud service; a second connection unit configured to perform connection to a second cloud service; and a connection support unit configured to support an initial connection to the second cloud service, which is performed after the connection to the first cloud service has been established. The first connection unit receives settings information including an access token, and a command to start the connection to the second cloud service from the first cloud service, which is already connected, before the initial connection to the second cloud service. The connection support unit activates the second connection unit in response to the command from the first cloud service via the first connection unit. The second connection unit executes initial connection to the second cloud service in response to the command using the settings information without receiving an authentication.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hidetaka Nakahara
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Patent number: 12187042Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 11, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: 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
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Patent number: 12193332Abstract: Provided are a piezoelectric ceramics which does not contain lead, has small temperature dependence of a piezoelectric constant within an operating temperature range, and has high density, a high mechanical quality factor, a satisfactory piezoelectric constant, and a small surface roughness, and a method of manufacturing the piezoelectric ceramics. The method of manufacturing a piezoelectric ceramics is characterized by including: sintering a compact containing a raw material at 1,000° C. or more to obtain a sintered compact; abrading the sintered compact; and annealing the abraded sintered compact at a temperature of 800° C. or more and less than 1,000° C.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuo Furuta, Takanori Matsuda, Hisato Yabuta, Akira Uebayashi
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Patent number: 12189483Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masumi Tabuki
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Printing apparatus having data overwriting, control method of printing apparatus, and storage medium
Patent number: 12190001Abstract: A printing apparatus receives a file transmitted from an external device, stores data included in the file in a volatile memory in a case where the external device is a server providing a secure printing service, and rewrites the data with dummy data, which is stored in a sector to a limit of the capacity in the volatile memory, in a case where the sector of the volatile memory storing the data is invalid. The volatile memory is a RAM and can be used as a RAMDISK.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazunari Yamamoto -
Patent number: 12187565Abstract: To prevent deformation to relatively stiffer sheets during flipping, while ensuring reliable holding of relatively weaker sheets, a method for stacking sheets received from a printer by a sheet flipping device includes at least one slot for receiving a leading portion of a sheet. The method includes determining a respective insertion depth parameter for a first and a second sheet, wherein the second sheet has a greater stiffness than the first sheet; inserting a length of the first sheet into the at least one slot in correspondence with its respective insertion depth parameter, followed by flipping said first sheet; inserting a length (D2) of the second sheet into the at least one slot in correspondence with its respective insertion depth parameter, followed by flipping said second sheet, wherein the inserted length of the first sheet is greater than that of the second sheet.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Christopher J. Borchert, Peter J. W. Van Dongen, Hermanus M. Kuypers
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Patent number: D1056915Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Canon Denshi Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hanako Oosawa, Misato Machida