Patents by Inventor Bungo Shimada

Bungo Shimada 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).

  • Patent number: 7206083
    Abstract: An image forming system is provided, which, if a jam occurs, enables the next fed sheet to be properly fed correctly. The image forming system can use an inserter. To allow an interrupted job to be properly processed, whether or not a recovery operation is to be carried out for the interrupted job is determined based on whether or not the interrupted job uses the inserter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Bungo Shimada
  • Publication number: 20060279764
    Abstract: In an image processing system for executing a job for an image, when security recording processing for an image to be processed is set valid, the image and the information related to a job to be executed for the image are stored in a predetermined unit. The state of storage processing of the image is monitored to prohibit the execution of the job for the image until storage processing of the image is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Bungo Shimada
  • Publication number: 20060268332
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a job execution unit configured to execute at least one of an input job accompanied by inputting of image data and an output job unaccompanied by inputting of image data, an image data storage unit configured to store image data in a predetermined memory, a reference information storage unit configured to store reference information to the image data stored in the memory in the same memory, and a control unit configured to control the image data storage unit to newly store image data in the memory when the job executed by the job execution unit is an input job, and the reference information storage unit to store the reference information to the image data stored in the memory without newly storing image data in the memory when the job executed by the job execution unit is an output job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Bungo Shimada
  • Patent number: 7023571
    Abstract: A method to enhance the copy or printout efficiency and decrease the number of output jobs that are abandoned because of undesirable outputs. Abort of output due to absence of sheets or staples, overload of a delivery tray, or the like is predicted. If output abort is determined, data is removed from an output queue and re-registered as an output reserve job at the end of the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Bungo Shimada, Hiroshi Sumio, Hirohiko Ito, Nobuaki Miyahara
  • Publication number: 20060061808
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus executes a plurality of types of jobs. In this apparatus, it is determined whether the execution history of each type of job is to be indicated. The execution history is stored if it is determined that it is to be indicated. The execution history is then transmitted to a PC on a network connected to the data processing apparatus and is displayed as a history list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuaki Miyahara, Hiroshi Sumio, Hirohiko Itoh, Bungo Shimada
  • Patent number: 6980310
    Abstract: A method to enhance the copy or printout efficiency and decrease the number of output jobs that are abandoned because of undesirable outputs. Abort of output due to absence of sheets or staples, overload of a delivery tray, or the like is predicted. If output abort is determined, data is removed from an output queue and re-registered as an output reserve job at the end of the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Bungo Shimada, Hiroshi Sumio, Hirohiko Ito, Nobuaki Miyahara
  • Patent number: 6952278
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus executes a plurality of types of jobs. In this apparatus, it is determined whether the execution history of each type of job is to be indicated. The execution history is stored if it is determined that it is to be indicated. The execution history is then transmitted to a PC on a network connected to the data processing apparatus and is displayed as a history list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuaki Miyahara, Hiroshi Sumio, Hirohiko Itoh, Bungo Shimada
  • Publication number: 20040263897
    Abstract: A method to enhance the copy or printout efficiency and decrease the number of output jobs that are abandoned because of undesirable outputs. Abort of output due to absence of sheets or staples, overload of a delivery tray, or the like is predicted. If output abort is determined, data is removed from an output queue and re-registered as an output reserve job at the end of the queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Bungo Shimada, Hiroshi Sumio, Hirohiko Ito, Nobuaki Miyahara
  • Patent number: 6580966
    Abstract: In an output control method for an image processing apparatus which has a function to invert a recording sheet and continuously performs image forming and outputting for the plural recording sheets in order to prevent that the recording sheets inverted and discharged and the recording sheets incapable of being inverted and thus discharged as it is mix together in one job, it is checked whether or not there is an instruction to invert the recording sheet, it is further judged if there is the instruction whether or not each of the plural recording sheets can be inverted by the inversion function, and if the recording sheet incapable of being inverted exists, all of the plural recording sheets are output without any inversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Bungo Shimada
  • Patent number: 6512899
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a memory which stores one or more images as one document, and an image forming unit which forms on a sheet the image of the document stored in the memory. Also included is a controller which causes the image forming unit to perform the image forming of the plural documents stored in the memory, as one document. The image forming unit includes a binder for binding the sheets on which the images of the plural documents are respectively formed, as one sheaf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Bungo Shimada, Hirohiko Ito
  • Publication number: 20030011800
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus executes a plurality of types of jobs. In this apparatus, it is determined whether the execution history of each type of job is to be indicated. The execution history is stored if it is determined that it is to be indicated. The execution history is then transmitted to a PC on a network connected to the data processing apparatus and is displayed as a history list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 1999
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: NOBUAKI MIYAHARA, HIROSHI SUMIO, HIROHIKO ITOH, BUNGO SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20020126309
    Abstract: An image forming system is provided, which, if a jam occurs, enables the next fed sheet to be properly fed correctly. The image forming system can use an inserter. To allow an interrupted job to be properly processed, whether or not a recovery operation is to be carried out for the interrupted job is determined based on whether or not the interrupted job uses the inserter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventor: Bungo Shimada
  • Patent number: 6336011
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus obtains optimum double-face print output results aligned in a binding direction even if plural recording sheet sizes mixedly exist in one document. To do so, a CPU of a formatter unit judges consistency between image formation directions on different-size recording sheets on the basis of a designation state of a short edge binding double-face mode or a long edge binding double-face mode designated to a print job by a PC/WS and a designation state of the recording sheet size independently designated to each page of the print job, and it is then controlled based on the judged result that double-face image formation to the recording sheet of either of the designated sizes is performed based on the other double-face mode than the double-face mode actually designated to the print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sumio, Hirohiko Ito, Nobuaki Miyahara, Bungo Shimada
  • Patent number: 6311029
    Abstract: A printing apparatus including print sheet feeding unit for feeding a print sheet, receiving unit for receiving image data and an identification of the image data from a personal computer, printing unit for printing an image on the print sheet fed by the print sheet feeding unit in accordance with the image data received by the receiving unit, insert sheet feeding unit for feeding a insert sheet, operation panel for inputting an identification of the insert sheet by a user, control unit for control the insert sheet feeding unit to feed the insert sheet in accordance with the identification of the image data corresponding to the identification of the insert sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sumio, Hirohiko Ito, Nobuaki Miyahara, Bungo Shimada
  • Publication number: 20010031150
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a memory for storing one or more images as one document, an image forming unit for forming on a sheet the image of the document stored in the memory; and a controller for causing the image forming unit to perform the image forming of the plural documents stored in the memory, as one document. The image forming unit includes a binder for binding the sheets, and the controller causes the binder to bind the sheets on which the images of the plural documents were respectively formed, as one sheaf. The image forming unit forms the images on front and back faces of the sheet, and the controller permits the image forming unit to form the image of a page included in a second document, on the back face of the sheet the front face of which the image of a page included in a first document was formed on. The controller causes the image forming unit to perform the image forming for the plural documents in order according to the image forming order set by a setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Inventors: Bungo Shimada, Hirohiko Ito
  • Publication number: 20010021317
    Abstract: In an output control method for an image processing apparatus which has a function to invert a recording sheet and continuously performs image forming and outputting for the plural recording sheets in order to prevent that the recording sheets inverted and discharged and the recording sheets incapable of being inverted and thus discharged as it is mix together in one job, it is checked whether or not there is an instruction to invert the recording sheet, it is further judged if there is the instruction whether or not each of the plural recording sheets can be inverted by the inversion function, and if the recording sheet incapable of being inverted exists, all of the plural recording sheets are output without any inversion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Inventor: Bungo Shimada