Patents by Inventor Ayuko Ishii

Ayuko Ishii has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230391099
    Abstract: An inkjet printer comprising a printer head, two ink tanks containing inks of the same color, a storage unit and a control unit, wherein each ink tank is configured to be attachable/detachable to/from a printer main body, and the control unit causes the storage unit to store identification information of each ink tank as first information, selects one ink tank and sets it as an active tank that supplies ink to the printer head, causes the storage unit to store identification information of the detached ink tank as second information based on the first information, and sets the reattached ink tank as the active tank based on the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventor: AYUKO ISHII
  • Patent number: 11328189
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus performs acquiring measurement results obtained by measuring a characteristic of a recording medium a plurality of times; inputting information corresponding to a type of the recording medium; acquiring an extraction range of the type indicated by the information, among extraction ranges set to respective types of recording media for determination of a type; setting, based on the measurement results and the type, a parameter for correcting the measurement results to reduce difference between the measurement results and the extraction range; correcting, by using the parameter, measurement results obtained by measuring a characteristic of a recording medium to be recorded; and extracting a candidate type of the recording media, the measurement results, based on the corrected measurement results and the extraction range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ayuko Ishii, Hiroaki Ono, Ryosuke Uemura, Ryutaro Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20210256329
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus performs acquiring measurement results obtained by measuring a characteristic of a recording medium a plurality of times; inputting information corresponding to a type of the recording medium; acquiring an extraction range of the type indicated by the information, among extraction ranges set to respective types of recording media for determination of a type; setting, based on the measurement results and the type, a parameter for correcting the measurement results to reduce difference between the measurement results and the extraction range; correcting, by using the parameter, measurement results obtained by measuring a characteristic of a recording medium to be recorded; and extracting a candidate type of the recording media, the measurement results, based on the corrected measurement results and the extraction range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Ayuko Ishii, Hiroaki Ono, Ryosuke Uemura, Ryutaro Kitagawa