Patents by Inventor Hideo Natori

Hideo Natori 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: 11586866
    Abstract: A system includes a server and a printing apparatus. The server manages a first printing content and a second printing content as a predetermined printing target. When an instruction user issues a speech instruction for printing the predetermined printing target to an audio control device as an n-th speech print instruction, the server selects the first printing content associated with the predetermined printing target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideo Natori
  • Publication number: 20220138516
    Abstract: A system includes a server and a printing apparatus. The server manages a first printing content and a second printing content as a predetermined printing target. When an instruction user issues a speech instruction for printing the predetermined printing target to an audio control device as an n-th speech print instruction, the server selects the first printing content associated with the predetermined printing target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Hideo Natori
  • Patent number: 11256968
    Abstract: A system includes a server and a printing apparatus. The server manages a first printing content and a second printing content as a predetermined printing target. When an instruction user issues a speech instruction for printing the predetermined printing target to an audio control device as an n-th speech print instruction, the server selects the first printing content associated with the predetermined printing target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideo Natori
  • Publication number: 20210248431
    Abstract: A system includes a server and a printing apparatus. The server manages a first printing content and a second printing content as a predetermined printing target. When an instruction user issues a speech instruction for printing the predetermined printing target to an audio control device as an n-th speech print instruction, the server selects the first printing content associated with the predetermined printing target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Hideo Natori
  • Patent number: 11023790
    Abstract: A system includes a server and a printing apparatus. The server manages a first printing content and a second printing content as a predetermined printing target. When an instruction user issues a speech instruction for printing the predetermined printing target to an audio control device as an n-th speech print instruction, the server selects the first printing content associated with the predetermined printing target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideo Natori
  • Publication number: 20200151526
    Abstract: A system includes a server and a printing apparatus. The server manages a first printing content and a second printing content as a predetermined printing target. When an instruction user issues a speech instruction for printing the predetermined printing target to an audio control device as an n-th speech print instruction, the server selects the first printing content associated with the predetermined printing target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Hideo Natori
  • Patent number: 9298522
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method. The apparatus comprises a generation unit configured to generate a named shared memory that can be accessed by both an application which runs with a first bit number and a printer driver which runs with a second bit number different from the first bit number. A storing unit is configured to store information in the named shared memory generated by the generation unit, and an acquisition unit is configured to acquire the information stored by the storing unit from the named shared memory generated by the generation unit. The storing unit is executed by the printer driver, and the acquisition unit is executed by the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideo Natori
  • Patent number: 8817281
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a print setting server connectable with a document processing server is provided, where the print setting server provides a print setting screen that depends on functions of a printer model through the Web, and a detailed print setting screen that depends on a printer is provided to a client. The client can enter print settings through the print setting screen. In this manner, print setting depending on a printer model is realized in a cloud print service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideo Natori
  • Patent number: 8537408
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus performs layout processing on print data, performs a preview based on layout-processed print data, and stores the print data used in the preview into a print queue when actual print processing is performed, thus preventing the same print processing from being repeatedly performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Natori, Kenichiro Uotani
  • Patent number: 8537388
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus which can edit print data capable of including an image resource, provided is a method which performs suitable image processing on a character stamp image by embedding an image rendering a character string of a stamp and attaching information for distinguishing the embedded image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideo Natori
  • Publication number: 20120194844
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a print setting server connectable with a document processing server is provided, where the print setting server provides a print setting screen that depends on functions of a printer model through the Web, and a detailed print setting screen that depends on a printer is provided to a client. The client can enter print settings through the print setting screen. In this manner, print setting depending on a printer model is realized in a cloud print service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideo Natori
  • Patent number: 8194276
    Abstract: Print setting is executed using, as print setting items associated with printing, a setting item on the paper type of printing paper used for printing and a setting item which designates whether to execute manual duplex printing. When execution of manual duplex printing is set, the print page order of a target of manual duplex printing is controlled in accordance with the set paper type. A print command to the target of manual duplex printing is output to a printing apparatus on the basis of the controlled print page order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideo Natori
  • Patent number: 8085411
    Abstract: It is necessary to avoid performing printing which brings about a poor printing result due to a mismatch between a medium fed by a printer and a set medium. For arbitrary paper, a paper type determining process unit 612 determines according to the information plural times detected with different timing during the process on the print data whether or not a mismatch occurred between the type of paper set on a printer and paper set by a print setting process unit 611, and the generation and output of print data by a print data generating process unit 618 is correctly controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kai, Masakazu Nomoto, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Hideo Natori, Hideki Honda
  • Patent number: 7916342
    Abstract: This invention is targeted to realize preview displaying by using a system spooler. In the print system according to this invention, when an application program designates printing of a document, document data is spooled into EMF spool file 4. At the same time, previewer 3 is started to transmit a printing image generation request to print processor 5. The print processor 5 reads the data subjected to preview displaying out of the EMF spool file 4, have printer graphic driver 6 generate image data that has an appropriate display size, and informs the name of the image data file to the previewer 8, which then displays the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideo Natori
  • Patent number: 7839520
    Abstract: A preview system utilizing an operating system standard spooler for spooling intermediate data converted from print data supplied from an application, including a print processor for implementing a print thread process and a preview thread process and a previewer for executing preview based on a bit map produced based on the above described spooled intermediate data, wherein the preview thread process of the above described print processor is started in accordance with commencement of a print process to start up the above described previewer, and the print thread process of the above described print processor is started up in the case where there is any job which has already finished undergoing preview or any job which has not yet undergone preview settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideo Natori
  • Publication number: 20100149586
    Abstract: An application program creates a named shared memory and calls an ExtEscape function, whereby a user interface module of an XPS printer driver stores return data in the named shared memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideo Natori
  • Patent number: 7728992
    Abstract: Even a simple media sensor obtains a print result of the best print quality by applying a user-set printing condition and the determined media group by performing a print processing using the optimum print profile for any supplied paper. To solve the above-mentioned problem, a print data generating process unit sets a printing condition for print data by selecting a print profile for printing corresponding to any group stored in a print profile storage unit based on a media group determined by a paper type determining process unit and a printing condition set by a print setting process unit in an operation performed by a user according to information obtained from a printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Hideo Natori, Hideki Honda, Hiroshi Kai, Masakazu Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20090284786
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus which can edit print data capable of including an image resource, provided is a method which performs suitable image processing on a character stamp image by embedding an image rendering a character string of a stamp and attaching information for distinguishing the embedded image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideo Natori
  • Patent number: 7573606
    Abstract: Even if the user selects a print mode for executing borderless printing, when the borderless printing is improper for a discriminated sheet type, in order to prevent the occurrence of various faults in a printing unit due to the execution of whole surface printing onto the sheet on which borderless printing is improper by outputting image information with margins on the sheet, a sense result of a media is obtained and whether or not the media type indicates the media which can be borderless-printed is discriminated on the basis of the sensed result. If it is determined that the media is not the media which can be borderless-printed, the print mode is changed to bordered printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masakazu Nomoto, Hiroshi Kai, Hideo Natori, Hideki Honda, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20090122341
    Abstract: If there is a setting of a specific function such as a stamp or the like, print setting information including information to realize the specific function is returned to a system so as to be stored into a spool file. The print setting information in the spool file is obtained. Whether or not the information to realize the specific function is included is discriminated. If it is determined that the information to realize the specific function is not included, a command to print an image corresponding to the page is formed. If it is determined that the information to realize the specific function is included, a command to print an image in which the specific function has been performed to the page is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideo Natori