Patents by Inventor Hideki Honda

Hideki Honda 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: 10126990
    Abstract: When error occurrence in a peripheral is detected, and a setting file of a printer driver of the peripheral contains information corresponding to the detected error, an error message different from an OS message provided by an operating system is displayed without displaying the OS message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki Honda
  • Patent number: 9954741
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of providing a first user interface (UI) environment and a second UI environment includes a determination unit configured to determine a UI environment that displays a message screen, and a control unit configured to, in a case where a message screen is required to be displayed to a user when a processing request is made to a peripheral device via an application, control a request for displaying the message screen, wherein a message screen adapted for the UI environment determined by the determination unit is displayed according to the request controlled by the control unit after the processing request is input via the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Honda
  • Patent number: 9645773
    Abstract: An application in an image processing apparatus presents information about ink installed in a peripheral device, such as the shape, color, size, arrangement direction, and a remaining ink level of an ink tank, in a visually realistic manner using accurate graphics. The image processing apparatus acquires ink information about, in particular, a remaining ink level, arrangement direction, and the order of the arrangement of the ink tank, and displays the information about the peripheral device in a user interface of the application using the acquired ink information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Honda, Koichi Abe
  • Publication number: 20160266849
    Abstract: When error occurrence in a peripheral is detected, and a setting file of a printer driver of the peripheral contains information corresponding to the detected error, an error message different from an OS message provided by an operating system is displayed without displaying the OS message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventor: Hideki Honda
  • Publication number: 20150339081
    Abstract: An application in an image processing apparatus presents information about ink installed in a peripheral device, such as the shape, color, size, arrangement direction, and a remaining ink level of an ink tank, in a visually realistic manner using accurate graphics. The image processing apparatus acquires ink information about, in particular, a remaining ink level, arrangement direction, and the order of the arrangement of the ink tank, and displays the information about the peripheral device in a user interface of the application using the acquired ink information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Hideki Honda, Koichi Abe
  • Patent number: 9124727
    Abstract: An application in an image processing apparatus presents information about ink installed in a peripheral device, such as the shape, color, size, arrangement direction, and a remaining ink level of an ink tank, in a visually realistic manner using accurate graphics. The image processing apparatus acquires ink information about, in particular, a remaining ink level, arrangement direction, and the order of the arrangement of the ink tank, and displays the information about the peripheral device in a user interface of the application using the acquired ink information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Honda, Koichi Abe
  • Publication number: 20150116776
    Abstract: An application in an image processing apparatus presents information about ink installed in a peripheral device, such as the shape, color, size, arrangement direction, and a remaining ink level of an ink tank, in a visually realistic manner using accurate graphics. The image processing apparatus acquires ink information about, in particular, a remaining ink level, arrangement direction, and the order of the arrangement of the ink tank, and displays the information about the peripheral device in a user interface of the application using the acquired ink information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Hideki Honda, Koichi Abe
  • Patent number: 9015358
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected with a peripheral apparatus via a communication line includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a destination of the peripheral apparatus, and a provision unit configured to provide functions for at least one of managing and controlling the peripheral apparatus according to the destination information acquired by the acquisition unit. The provision unit is configured to refer to information indicating a function to be provided according to the destination of the peripheral apparatus and to provide a function for at least one of managing and controlling the peripheral apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Abe, Hideki Honda, Toshinori Kawaura
  • Patent number: 9007614
    Abstract: A printing system comprising a printing apparatus and an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprises a unit configured to transmit a status acquisition request to the printing apparatus, and the printing apparatus comprises: a timeout processing unit configured to manage a timeout of a job to be processed; a determination unit configured to determine whether the status acquisition request contains an identifier of the job; and a unit configured not to reset a lapse of the timeout time of the job by the timeout processing unit when the determination unit determines that the status acquisition request does not contain the identifier of the job, and to reset the lapse of the timeout time of the job by the timeout processing unit when the determination unit determines that the status acquisition request contains the identifier of the job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Honda
  • Patent number: 8982404
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus changes a display of management information of a non-print job in a print queue to a completed state without waiting for end-of-processing information from a printing apparatus if it is determined that a job is the non-print job. The information processing apparatus changes a display of management information of a print job in the print queue to a completed state in accordance with receiving the end-of-processing information from the printing apparatus if it is determined that a job is not the non-print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Honda
  • Patent number: 8947694
    Abstract: An application in an image processing apparatus presents information about ink installed in a peripheral device, such as the shape, color, size, arrangement direction, and a remaining ink level of an ink tank, in a visually realistic manner using accurate graphics. The image processing apparatus acquires ink information about, in particular, a remaining ink level, arrangement direction, and the order of the arrangement of the ink tank, and displays the information about the peripheral device in a user interface of the application using the acquired ink information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Honda, Koichi Abe
  • Publication number: 20140320922
    Abstract: When a job is a non-print job, an information processing apparatus writes dummy data to a printing apparatus during job-end processing. Alternatively, when print data is not written to the printing apparatus during the job-end processing, the information processing apparatus directly instructs a print queue to hide the management information of a non-print job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventor: Hideki Honda
  • Publication number: 20140289635
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of providing a first user interface (UI) environment and a second UI environment includes a determination unit configured to determine a UI environment that displays a message screen, and a control unit configured to, in a case where a message screen is required to be displayed to a user when a processing request is made to a peripheral device via an application, control a request for displaying the message screen, wherein a message screen adapted for the UI environment determined by the determination unit is displayed according to the request controlled by the control unit after the processing request is input via the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki Honda
  • Patent number: 8804174
    Abstract: When a job is a non-print job, an information processing apparatus writes dummy data to a printing apparatus during job-end processing. Alternatively, when print data is not written to the printing apparatus during the job-end processing, the information processing apparatus directly instructs a print queue to hide the management information of a non-print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Honda
  • Patent number: 8749819
    Abstract: Upon receiving a job-end event from a printer, a data transfer unit executes job-end processing for completing processing relating to a print job. A communication control unit monitors the processing status of the data transfer unit notifies the job management unit of end of the print job after it has been determined, as a result of monitoring, that the job-end processing has been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Honda
  • Patent number: 8452898
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected with a peripheral apparatus via a communication line includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a destination of the peripheral apparatus, and a provision unit configured to provide functions for at least one of managing and controlling the peripheral apparatus according to the destination information acquired by the acquisition unit. The provision unit is configured to refer to information indicating a function to be provided according to the destination of the peripheral apparatus and to provide a function for at least one of managing and controlling the peripheral apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Abe, Hideki Honda, Toshinori Kawaura
  • Patent number: 8446620
    Abstract: In order to display the more detailed print status of an electronic document having a tree structure, information about the tree structure is added to a print command. Furthermore, for information management, the information about the tree structure is associated with a corresponding page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Honda
  • Patent number: 8392624
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected with a peripheral apparatus via a communication line includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a destination of the peripheral apparatus, and a provision unit configured to provide functions for at least one of managing and controlling the peripheral apparatus according to the destination information acquired by the acquisition unit. The provision unit is configured to refer to information indicating a function to be provided according to the destination of the peripheral apparatus and to provide a function for at least one of managing and controlling the peripheral apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Abe, Hideki Honda, Toshinori Kawaura
  • Publication number: 20120293834
    Abstract: When a job is a non-print job, an information processing apparatus writes dummy data to a printing apparatus during job-end processing. Alternatively, when print data is not written to the printing apparatus during the job-end processing, the information processing apparatus directly instructs a print queue to hide the management information of a non-print job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki Honda
  • Publication number: 20120212777
    Abstract: A printing system comprising a printing apparatus and an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprises a unit configured to transmit a status acquisition request to the printing apparatus, and the printing apparatus comprises: a timeout processing unit configured to manage a timeout of a job to be processed; a determination unit configured to determine whether the status acquisition request contains an identifier of the job; and a unit configured not to reset a lapse of the timeout time of the job by the timeout processing unit when the determination unit determines that the status acquisition request does not contain the identifier of the job, and to reset the lapse of the timeout time of the job by the timeout processing unit when the determination unit determines that the status acquisition request contains the identifier of the job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki Honda