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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Patent number: 11954542Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display a print settings screen for causing an image forming apparatus to print, on a printing medium, a plurality of patches representing colorimetry targets readable by a colorimetric apparatus; a reception unit configured to receive an instruction for the printing via the print settings screen; a print control unit configured to cause the image forming apparatus to start the printing of the plurality of patches based on the received instruction for the printing; an obtaining unit configured to obtain information related to calibration corresponding to the printing medium; and a determination unit configured to determine whether calibration has been executed for the printing medium based on the obtained information related to calibration.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yuto Nozaki
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Patent number: 11954935Abstract: An electronic device that is improved in object detection performance exhibited when executing a specific function. A system controller detects one or more objects from image data, evaluates feature values of the one or more detected objects, and identifies an object out of the one or more objects, that satisfies a predetermined criterion related to execution of a specific function, based on a result of the evaluation. The specific function is executed in a case where it is determined that the identified object satisfies an execution condition of the specific function.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Atsushi Mikawa
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Patent number: 11955226Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor, and a memory storing a program. The program, when executed by the processor, causes the information processing apparatus to: acquire a medical image obtained by imaging a subject, acquire an inspection result of the medical image, perform inference on the medical image; and control outputting of an inference result of the medical image inference to an external device based on the inspection result of the medical image.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Kohtaro Umezawa
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Patent number: 11956538Abstract: An image capturing apparatus that is capable of accurately acquiring motion vectors according to a photographing environment and performing blur correction with high accuracy. The image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor, and a photometry unit that performs photometry of a photographing environment. A motion vector calculation section calculates motion vectors based on images acquired by the image sensor. A camera system controller calculates a reliability of the motion vectors. A photographing condition determination section determines photographing conditions for consecutively photographing a plurality of images by the image sensor, according to a photometry result and the calculated reliability.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Go Naito, Ryuichiro Yasuda
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Patent number: 11950893Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for vascular imaging and determining dynamic vascular parameters of blood flow. According to an embodiment, the present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method of determining dynamic vascular parameters of blood flow, comprising acquiring two-dimensional projection images of a vascular region of interest at a predetermined frequency, the vascular region of interest being downstream of a site of vascular administration of a radio-opaque medium, identifying, within the acquired two-dimensional projection images, heterogeneities of the radio-opaque medium, and determining the dynamic vascular parameters of the blood flow based on spatial movements of the identified heterogeneities of the radio-opaque medium. In an embodiment, the predetermined frequency is greater than 100 Hz.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Stephen Rudin, Eugene A. Mensah, Andrew Kuhls-Gilcrist
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Patent number: 11952239Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a feeding roller pair, a detecting portion, a first changing portion, a second changing portion, and a controller for controlling the first changing portion and the second changing portion. The controller starts a first feeding operation for feeding a sheet toward the obliquely feeding roller pair in a nipping state of the feeding roller pair and then starts a second feeding operation for feeding the sheet for abutting a side end of the sheet against the reference member in the nipping state of the obliquely feeding roller pair. The controller changes, after the first feeding operation is started and before the second feeding operation is started, a start timing of the second feeding operation on the basis of a detection result of a position of the side end of the sheet detected by the detecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinao Chiba, Shingo Iwami, Koji Suzuki, Yuma Inui, Yoshiya Numata
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Patent number: 11951742Abstract: A substrate joined body including: a first substrate; a second substrate; an organic film that comprises silicon and carbon and joins the first substrate and the second substrate; and a protective film that comprises an inorganic element and is formed over the organic film from at least a part of the surface of the first substrate and at least a part of the surface of the second substrate, wherein the protective film comprises a region in which the ratio of carbon to silicon based on atomic percentage is from 0.0 to 5.0 in a region within 50 nm in a thickness direction from a surface of the organic film on the protective film side, when the surface is measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Taichi Yonemoto, Yoshiyuki Fukumoto, Atsunori Terasaki
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Patent number: 11951743Abstract: A method for producing a silicon substrate comprising a silicon base material; and a wiring formation layer laminated on a base material surface of the silicon base material, and being provided with a wiring member, an electrode member comprising a noble metal, and a close contact member comprising a base metal between the wiring member and the electrode member, wherein the method comprises a step of forming a deposition film by a fluorocarbon gas, in etching of the silicon substrate; and a removal step of removing, by a removal solution, the deposition film formed by the fluorocarbon gas; the removal solution comprises a primary amine and an organic polar solvent; a content of water in the removal solution is 10 mass % or lower; and a content of tetramethylammonium hydroxide in the removal solution is 1 mass % or lower.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Atsunori Terasaki
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Patent number: 11951660Abstract: A shaping system comprises a dispensing station configured to dispense formable material on a substrate, a shaping station configured to contact the dispensed formable material on the substrate with a plate, a positioning system configured to move the substrate having the dispensed formable material from the dispensing system to the shaping station, and a cover having one or more walls. While the substrate having the dispensed formable material is moved by the positioning system from the dispensing station to the shaping station, the cover is positioned to enclose the substrate and the dispensed formable material such that a ratio of a diameter of the substrate to a distance between the cover and the substrate to 80:1 to 30:1.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Steven C. Shackleton, Alireza Aghili, Zhengmao Ye
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Patent number: 11951677Abstract: A three dimensional manufactured product is manufactured A speed of filing an uncured light curing resin in a space for a next layer is enhanced, to improve a manufacturing speed. One surface of a container housing a light curing resin is configured by a gas-permeable sheet that faces the light curing resin, and transmits irradiation light of a light irradiating apparatus, and a light transmitting plate disposed at an outer side of the container from the gas permeable member. A pressurizing chamber controllable in pressure by a pressure controlling apparatus is defined between the gas-permeable sheet and the light transmitting plate. At moving a manufacturing stage, an inside of the pressurizing chamber is de-pressurized to cause the gas-permeable sheet to perform concave surface deformation, and at a time of performing light irradiation, gas in the pressurizing chamber is caused to permeate into the light curing resin by pressurizing.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Arai, Yasuhiro Sekine, Akio Kashiwazaki, Toshiki Ito
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Patent number: 11954386Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores an extension application program for extending a function of print data creation software to create print data. The extension application program causing a computer in an information processing apparatus to execute obtaining information of a plurality of functions from a printing apparatus, displaying a print setting screen based on at least a part of the obtained information, and performing control such that among the plurality of functions, a second function that can be used for printing only in combination with a first function which the extension application program does not support is not displayed on the print setting screen.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Daichi Hidaka
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Patent number: 11956567Abstract: An image capturing apparatus including a mounting part capable of attaching/detaching a device capable of at least storing a captured image, is provided. The image capturing apparatus obtains, if a device mounted in the mounting part has a function of executing image analysis processing for an image captured by the image capturing apparatus, first information representing image analysis processing executable by the device, and output information based on the obtained first information and second information representing image analysis processing executable by the image capturing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuji Aramaki
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Patent number: 11956406Abstract: A system for performing color validation by comparing a color measurement result of a chart and a color reference, the system including a first information processing apparatus, wherein the first information processing apparatus includes a colorimetric setting for performing color validation by comparing a color measurement result of a chart and a color reference, a transmission unit configured to transmit screen information of a screen for receiving a chart printing instruction, a receiving unit configured to receive the colorimetric setting and the chart printing instruction, and a generation unit configured to generate print data of a chart based on the colorimetric setting and the chart printing instruction.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kimio Hayashi
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Patent number: 11956543Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an electronic zoom unit, a motion vector detection unit, a first representative vector calculation unit, a second representative vector calculation unit, and a third representative vector calculation unit, wherein the third representative vector calculation unit determines the third representative motion vector by setting a weight of the first representative motion vector greater than a weight of the second representative motion vector when an enlargement magnification in the electronic zoom unit is equal to or greater than a threshold, and determines the third representative motion vector by setting a weight of the second representative motion vector greater than a weight of the first representative motion vector when an enlargement magnification in the electronic zoom unit is less than the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomohiro Sugaya
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Patent number: 11956408Abstract: The information processing system obtains a plurality of images based on image capturing by a plurality of imaging devices; obtains viewpoint information for specifying a position of a virtual viewpoint and a view direction from the virtual viewpoint; and generates a plurality of virtual viewpoint contents each of which corresponds to one of a plurality of image formats based on the common plurality of obtained images and the obtained viewpoint information, and the plurality of image formats is image formats whose numbers of virtual viewpoints specified by the viewpoint information used for generation of the virtual viewpoint contents are different from one another.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Taku Ogasawara
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Patent number: 11956539Abstract: A correction control apparatus outputs a blur correction amount associated with an image blur with respect to a group of captured images. The apparatus obtains status information indicating an image capture status of the group of images, obtains a result of detection of a motion blur with respect to the group of images, derives the blur correction amount based on the obtained result, outputs the blur correction amount and controls a method of derivation of the blur correction amount. The apparatus includes a filter that extracts components of a first frequency band from the result, and derives the blur correction amount based on the components of the first frequency band associated with the motion blur extracted by the filter, and causes the first frequency band extracted by the filter to vary in accordance with the obtained status information.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryuichiro Yasuda, Yu Narita
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Patent number: 11956391Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes first and second first conveyance rollers, transparent members, reading units, and opposing rollers, and includes a driving unit. The first reading unit reads an image on a sheet first surface through the first transparent member at a first reading position. The first opposing roller is opposed to the first transparent member at the first reading position. The second reading unit reads an image on a sheet second surface through the second transparent member at a second reading position. The second opposing roller is opposed to the second transparent member at the second reading position. The second conveyance roller is arranged where a sheet trailing edge passes through the first reading position while the second conveyance roller conveys the sheet. The driving unit drives the first opposing roller so that a first opposing roller circumferential speed is faster than a second conveyance roller circumferential speed.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohito Nakagawa, Yukihiro Soeta, Teppei Nagata
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Publication number: 20240111488Abstract: A data processing apparatus comprises: a memory configured to store a trained model; and processing circuitry configured to: receive at least one dataset that comprises d variables and n samples; determine variances associated with the variables by processing the dataset using the model; determine an order of the variables based on the determined variances, including iteratively removing at least one node or variable represented by said at least one node thereby to determine the order.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicants: The University Court of the University of Edinburgh, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Pedro SANCHEZ, Sotirios TSAFTARIS, Xiao LIU, Alison O’NEIL
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Publication number: 20240108314Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry sets a scan order such that among multiple ensemble groups each including multiple ultrasonic transmission-reception operations performed on a same scan line in each of partial scan regions of a scan region, a distance between temporally adjacent ultrasonic transmission-reception operations of different ensemble groups is not less than a first threshold, and a time difference between ultrasonic transmission-reception operations of the different ensemble groups with respect to spatially adjacent scan lines is not less than a second threshold. The processing circuitry causes ultrasonic waves to be transmitted and received according to the scan order.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventor: Akio GODA
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Publication number: 20240112349Abstract: A data generation apparatus according to one embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives a relative value of molecules in a first region as input data. The processing circuitry applies, to the input data, a function having predetermined coefficients to be learned. The processing circuitry computes a relative value of the molecules in a second region to be output data from the function. The processing circuitry outputs the output data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Shuki MARUYAMA, Hidenori TAKESHIMA
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Patent number: 11946768Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a shape information acquiring unit 204 configured to acquire shape information of a surrounding environment of a moving body measured by a sensor mounted in the moving body; a position and posture acquiring unit configured to acquire position and posture information of the sensor; a correction state acquiring unit configured to acquire a performance state relating to a process of correcting the position and posture information; a priority level determining unit configured to determine a priority level of an area for generating a map; and a map generating unit configured to generate the map on the basis of the shape information and the position and posture information acquired at the time of acquisition of the shape information, in which the map generating unit generates the map in order from an area of which the priority level is high in accordance with the performance state.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji Isatake, Masaya Katamine
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Patent number: 11944484Abstract: A method and a system for providing calibration for a photon counting CT detector forward model for material decomposition. Various slabs of predetermined material and path lengths are placed in the photon counting CT detector and scanned using one or more stationary X-rays to obtain calibration data and parametrize the forward model.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Xiaohui Zhan, Xiaofeng Niu
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Patent number: 11945215Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a first discharge path that discharges a sheet and a second discharge path different from the first discharge path. An angle difference between a direction in which the sheet is discharged in the second discharge path and a conveyance direction of a conveyance roller is less than an angle difference between a direction in which the sheet is discharged in the first discharge path and the conveyance direction of the conveyance roller. The printing apparatus includes a control unit that discharges the sheet on which the image is printed using the second discharge path even in a case where an instruction to print an image indicates discharging the sheet to the first discharge path, if the sheet conveyed by the conveyance roller is a sheet having a thickness equal to or greater than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Naoki Wakayama
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Patent number: 11946992Abstract: In one embodiment, an MRI system includes at least one magnetic field assembly and at least one image generator. The at least one magnetic field assembly includes an open main magnet configured to generate a main magnetic field for dominantly determining a magnetic resonance frequency, a gradient coil configured to generate a gradient magnetic field, and an RF coil configured to generate a radio frequency magnetic field. The at least one image generator is configured to generate a magnetic resonance image of an object by using the main magnetic field, the gradient magnetic field, and the radio frequency magnetic field generated by the at least one magnetic field assembly. The main magnet is disposed between adjacent examination rooms. The main magnetic field generated by the open main magnet is commonly used in each of the adjacent examination rooms.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Misaki Hattaha, Sadanori Tomiha
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Patent number: 11945683Abstract: A pair of regulating guides is disposed on both sides of a conveying belt in a sheet width direction Y, each having a support surface that supports an end edge in the width direction of the sheet conveyed while being nipped by the conveying belt and balls and a guide surface that faces the end edge of the sheet in the width direction. Each of the pair of regulating guides is movable to a first guide position at which the end edge of the sheet in the width direction is supported by the support surface and guided by the guide surface and to a second guide position at which the end edge of the sheet in the sheet width direction is supported by the support surface and which is retracting further away from the end edge in the sheet width direction than the guide position.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.Inventors: Toshiyuki Iwata, Yuuki Kubota, Tsukasa Kondo, Tetsuya Kawasaki
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Patent number: 11945893Abstract: A curable composition can comprise a polymerizable material including a monomer of Formula (1), with R being H or alkyl or alkylaryl, n being 1-4, m being 0-6, X1 being C1-C6 substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, X2 being CH3 or H, After forming a cured layer of the curable composition, the cured layer can have an excellent etch resistance.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fen Wan, Weijun Liu, Gary F. Doyle
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Patent number: 11944778Abstract: One or more devices, systems, methods, and storage mediums for optical imaging medical devices, such as, but not limited to, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), single mode OCT, and/or multi-modal OCT apparatuses and systems, and methods and storage mediums for use with same, for triggering auto-pullback, including for devices or systems using blood clearing, are provided herein. Examples of applications include imaging, evaluating and diagnosing biological objects, such as, but not limited to, for Gastro-intestinal, cardio and/or ophthalmic applications, and being obtained via one or more optical instruments, such as, but not limited to, optical probes, catheters, capsules and needles (e.g., a biopsy needle). Techniques provided herein also improve processing and imaging efficiency while achieving images that are more precise.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon U.S.A., Inc.Inventor: Badr Elmaanaoui
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Patent number: 11947948Abstract: An information processing apparatus stores first software and second software, the first software is stored in a first storage medium accessible by a central processing unit and an embedded controller, and the second software is used to restore the first software and stored in a second storage medium accessible by the embedded controller. The information processing apparatus includes an update unit configured to update the second software using the first software depending on a result of a comparison between version information about the first software and version information about the second software, a falsification detection unit configured to detect whether the first software is falsified; and a restoration unit configured to restore the first software using the second software in a case where the falsification detection unit detects that the first software is falsified.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ayuta Kawazu, Nobuhiro Tagashira, Takami Eguchi
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Patent number: 11948669Abstract: A medical information management apparatus has processing circuitry configured to search medical information in a storage, when accepting a search request of the medical information including a key being an item of information regarding a patient and a value being contents of the key, and extract the medical information matching a search condition as condition-matched medical information; extract the key and the value from the condition-matched medical information, calculate a matching rate being a proportion of the value included in the condition-matched medical information to the entire medical information in the storage, and determine that the value is idiosyncratic information when the matching rate is equal to or less than a threshold set with respect to the key; and determine whether the key of the value determined to include the idiosyncratic information corresponds to an essential key which is essential in terms of a purpose of utilization.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Taisuke Iwamura, Ichirou Maeda, Masato Shibuya, Shouichi Nogawa, Naruaki Koike
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Patent number: 11948026Abstract: Formed is a dither pattern that makes it possible to output an image with excellent dot dispersibility and reduced graininess regardless of controls after quantization processing. To this end, an extended pattern in which multiple divided pixels correspond to each of multiple pixels included in quantization data and one or more of the multiple divided pixels are determined as dot-arrangeable-pixels in which dots can be printed is generated. Thereafter, the thresholds of the dither pattern are set based on the extended pattern in which the dots are arranged to obtain predetermined dispersibility.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junichi Nakagawa, Hirokazu Tanaka, Tsukasa Doi, Mayuko Yamagata, Satoshi Seki
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Patent number: 11949822Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of executing near field wireless communication, comprises: a display unit configured to display a screen; an obtaining unit configured to obtain identification information regarding a device from a near field wireless communication tag with use of the near field wireless communication; a selection unit configured, in a case where the obtaining unit obtained the identification information, to select one of first processing for connecting to the device indicated by the identification information and second processing for connecting to the device indicated by the identification information and sending data to the device, based on a type of screen being displayed by the display unit; and a processing unit configured to execute the processing selected by the selection unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shukei Kurihara
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Patent number: 11948027Abstract: An image forming apparatus that suppresses print position displacement. The image forming apparatus includes a plurality of sheet storage sections configured to store sheets. A sheet storage section to be used is selected out of the plurality of sheet storage sections. An image is formed on a sheet supplied from the selected sheet storage section and the image position is adjusted using adjustment values associated with the selected sheet storage section. When an update action performed by sheet replenishment or sheet replacement is detected for a sheet storage section, the sheet storage section for which the update action has been detected is controlled so as not to be selected by the selection unit until a predetermined time period elapses after detection of the update action.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yukiyoshi Hikichi
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Patent number: 11948091Abstract: There is provided with an image identification apparatus. An extraction unit extracts a feature value of an image from image data using a Neural Network (NN). A processing unit identifies the image based on the feature value extracted by the extraction unit. The NN comprises a plurality of calculation layers connected hierarchically. The NN includes a plurality of sub-neural networks for performing processing of calculation layers after a specific calculation layer. Mutually different data from an output of the specific calculation layer are respectively inputted to the plurality of sub-neural networks.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahisa Yamamoto, Hiroshi Sato
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Patent number: 11948952Abstract: In a solid-state imaging device, a photoelectric conversion unit, a transfer transistor, and at least a part of electric charge holding unit, among pixel constituent elements, are disposed on a first semiconductor substrate. An amplifying transistor, a signal processing circuit other than a reset transistor, and a plurality of common output lines, to which signals are read out from a plurality of pixels, are disposed on a second semiconductor substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuo Yamazaki, Tetsuya Itano, Nobuyuki Endo, Kyouhei Watanabe
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Patent number: 11949981Abstract: A display device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure acquires time series images; processes the acquired images; performs control so that a processed image is displayed on a display; detects a closed state of an eyelid of a user; and starts power saving processing to reduce power consumption of the image processing or the displaying, in response to the detection of the closed state of the eyelid, and instructs restart of processing that was being performed before the power saving processing, in the image processing or the displaying, at a timing when a specific time has elapsed from the detection of the closed state of the eyelid.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yuya Ebata
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Patent number: 11950095Abstract: A communication apparatus automatically starts operating in a direct wireless communication mode in conjunction with a user's logging in to the communication apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuhiko Maki
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Patent number: 11949834Abstract: An image reading device includes linear image sensors that are arranged so that adjacent image sensors include an overlapping region in which portions of reading regions of the adjacent image sensors overlap in a main scanning direction, and a buffer unit for read image data. Image data of each overlapping region are generated by synthesizing first image data obtained by a first linear image sensor and second image data obtained by a second linear sensor, the first linear image sensor and the second linear sensor being adjacent in the main scanning direction. Image data of the predetermined line is generated based on image data in which the image data of each overlapping region are excluded from the image data stored in the buffer unit and the image data of each overlapping region. The processing is repeatedly executed in a sub-scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoya Teraji, Katsutoshi Miyahara, Takehiko Kasamatsu, Shota Nonaka
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Patent number: 11949842Abstract: In a color management system including a server and an image forming apparatus, the server stores information of a colorimetric sensor and paper information corresponding to the colorimetric sensor, obtains information of a colorimetric sensor mounted in the image forming apparatus, designates paper to use when executing a color adjustment process of the image forming apparatus, and, based on the stored paper information, selects a colorimetric sensor of the image forming apparatus corresponding to the designated paper. The image forming apparatus comprises causes a printer engine to print a chart on the designated paper in accordance with a color adjustment job for executing the color adjustment process, and measures a colorimetric value of the printed chart using the selected colorimetric sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazufumi Kobashi, Satoshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 11949867Abstract: An image decoding apparatus comprises a decoder which decodes data indicating a plurality of values corresponding to a part of a quantization matrix; a generator which derives the plurality of values from the data and generates the matrix; and an inverse quantizing unit which performs the inverse quantizing on an object block using the matrix, wherein, if width or height of the matrix is larger than or equal to a predetermined size, the generating unit generates the matrix by associating a first value among the plurality of values with a first element corresponding to DC component in the matrix, associating a second value with a second element adjacent to the first element, and, for the elements other than the first and second elements, associating each of one or more values with a plurality of elements of the matrix.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masato Shima
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Patent number: 11949833Abstract: An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to accurately derive an inclination of a line image sensor. One embodiment of the present invention is an image reading apparatus including: a line image sensor in which reading elements for reading an image are arrayed in a predetermined direction; a first derivation unit configured to, based on read data acquired by reading a chart on which a plurality of dot patterns is printed with the line image sensor, derive coordinates of each of the plurality of dot patterns; a second derivation unit configured to derive an inclination angle of the line image sensor based on the coordinates derived by the first derivation unit; and a first calculation unit configured to calculate a first correction value for correcting the inclination of the line image sensor based on the inclination angle derived by the second derivation unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuki Kamio, Katsutoshi Miyahara, Yuichi Sato, Takahiro Ode
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Patent number: 11949973Abstract: An attachment optical system attachable to and detachable from an imaging optical system includes a first converter optical system attachable to an object side of the imaging optical system, and a second converter optical system attachable to an image side of the imaging optical system. The first converter optical system includes a first unit consisting of a dome-shaped cover. A predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshiyuki Taki
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Patent number: 11949743Abstract: A device management server that manages device information of a plurality of devices to be managed by a device information storage unit comprises: a device information management unit that manages the device information as a management target or as a non-management target by the device information storage unit; and a device display unit that performs a control such that, when selecting a device to which a first function is to be applied, a device corresponding to the device information managed as a management target is set to be a selection candidate instead of setting a device corresponding to the device information managed as a non-managed target to be a selection candidate, and when selecting a device to which a second function is to be applied, a device corresponding to the device information managed as a management target or non-management target is set to be a selection candidate.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Satoshi Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11950364Abstract: A module includes a first wiring board, a first integrated circuit component mounted on the first wiring board, a second wiring board overlapping with the first wiring board, a second integrated circuit component mounted on the second wiring board, and a connection member disposed between the first wiring board and the second wiring board and configured to electrically connect the first wiring board and the second wiring board, wherein the second integrated circuit component overlaps with the first wiring board and supplies power to the first integrated circuit component via the connection member.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsutoshi Hasegawa, Satoru Higuchi, Noritake Tsuboi
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Patent number: 11950437Abstract: An organic light emitting device including, in sequence, a first electrode, a first charge transport layer, a second charge transport layer in contact with the first charge transport layer, a light emitting layer in contact with the second charge transport layer, and a second electrode, wherein the first charge transport layer includes a first material and a second material, the second charge transport layer includes the second material and a third material, and the light emitting layer includes the third material and a fourth material.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki Yamada, Satoru Shiobara, Itaru Takaya, Jun Kamatani
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Patent number: 11947895Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to execute an application containing a first component for displaying a web page and a second component different from the first component. The information processing apparatus selects, in a case where a plurality of external fonts that is externally acquired is determined to be used in a web page displayed in the first component, a font for used in the second component from the plurality of external fonts based on a usage pattern of each of the plurality of external fonts in the web page.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Atsushi Ikeda
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Patent number: 11947267Abstract: A method including calculating, using an objective function, which includes a regression model used to estimate an array of a plurality of regions on a substrate and a regularization term used to limit a value of a coefficient of the regression model, a value of each of a plurality of coefficients included in the regression model, with which the objective function becomes not more than a reference value, extracting, based on the calculated values, the coefficient having the value not less than a threshold value from the plurality of coefficients, and obtaining, using a regression model including only the extracted coefficient, an array of a plurality of regions on a substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Shigenobu, Fuma Kizu
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Patent number: 11947285Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a rotatable endless belt, a plurality of stretching rollers including an inner roller and an upstream roller, an outer member, a guiding member, a sheet-like pressing member, and a coating member. The coating member is disposed on the pressing member so as not to contact the belt and is electrically grounded or electrically conducted to the guiding member. The coating member is formed of a material lower in surface resistivity than the pressing member.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryosuke Tsuruga, Manato Kobayashi, Yutaka Kakehi
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Patent number: 11947290Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second rotatable members forming a nip therebetween, a heater disposed in inside of the second rotatable member, a first temperature sensor provided on a center of the heater, a second temperature sensor provided on an end side of the heater. A controller controls a feeding interval in which a trailing edge of a preceding sheet passes through the nip until a leading edge of a subsequent sheet reaches the nip. The controller controls the feeding interval to be a first interval in a case which a feeding speed of the sheet is a first speed and a detected temperature by the second sensor is a first temperature, and to be a second interval shorter than the first interval in a case which the feeding speed is a second speed lower than the first speed and the detected temperature is the first temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Nakamoto, Kazuhiro Doda
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Patent number: 11947299Abstract: A sheet cassette includes a first trailing edge regulator integrally formed with a cassette frame to regulate a position of a trailing edge of a first sized sheet in a feeding direction, and a second trailing edge regulator integrally formed with the cassette frame to regulate a position of a trailing edge of a sheet of a second size stored in the cassette frame in the feeding direction. A pair of side edge regulation members regulate positions of side edges of the sheet of the first size stored in the cassette frame in the width direction at a first position and regulate positions of side edges of the sheet of the second size stored in the cassette frame in the width direction at a second position.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Toshiki Ishida
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Patent number: 11947300Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a cutting apparatus, and a controller. The cutting apparatus includes a conveyance path, a first cutting unit configured to cut, at a cutting position with respect to a conveyance direction of the sheet on the conveyance path, the sheet in a width direction perpendicularly intersecting with the conveyance direction, and a second cutting unit configured to cut, at a cutting position with respect to the width direction, the sheet in the conveyance direction. The controller is configured to control the cutting apparatus such that, in a case where the sheet is cut neither with the first cutting unit nor with the second cutting unit, the sheet is conveyed through the conveyance path with the first cutting unit and the second cutting unit retreated not to contact with the sheet passing through the conveyance path.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Takada, Tadashi Iwakawa, Rin Ishikawa