Patents by Inventor Hisashi Koike

Hisashi Koike 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: 9230203
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a display unit, a storing unit, a determining unit, and a notification unit. The display unit displays jobs. The storing unit stores attribute information of a sheet to be stored in sheet holding units. The determining unit determines, from among the jobs displayable on the display unit, a job where attribute information of a sheet to be used by the job does not correspond to the sheet attribute information stored in the storing unit. The notification unit notifies a user of the number of jobs determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hisashi Koike
  • Patent number: 9229673
    Abstract: It is determined whether an attribute of the sheet of a printing target job is different from the attribute of a sheet in a sheet storage unit designated by the attribute of the sheet of the job. When it is determined that the attribute of the sheet of the printing target job is different from the attribute of the sheet in the sheet storage unit, it is determined whether the attribute of the sheet of another job also designates the sheet storage unit. When it is determined that the attribute of the sheet of the other job also designates the sheet storage unit, a warning about a change of the attribute of the sheet in the sheet storage unit is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hisashi Koike
  • Publication number: 20150347878
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a job holding unit, a selecting unit, a performing unit, a displaying unit, and a notification unit. The job holding unit holds jobs that print an image on a sheet conveyed from at least one of sheet holding units. The selecting unit selects a job from the job holding unit. The receiving unit receives, from a user, an instruction to execute the selected job. The performing unit performs the job per the instruction. The displaying unit displays a screen for selecting at least one of the sheet holding units for which attribute information of a sheet, to be used in a selected first job, is to be stored. The notification unit notifies, on the screen in a distinguishable manner, a user of at least one of the sheet holding units which is and another which is not used in printing of a second job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Toshihiko Iida, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Hisashi Koike
  • Patent number: 9165228
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an accepting unit configured to accept a print job, a first determination unit configured to determine whether the accepted print job is of a first type or a second type, a second determination unit configured to, if the first determination unit determines the accepted print job as the first type and if a job control code included in the accepted print job indicates hold, determine that data of the accepted print job is to be held, if the first determination unit determines that the accepted print job as the first type and if the job control code indicates print, determine that the data of the accepted print job is to be printed, and if the first determination unit determines that the accepted print job as the second type, determine that the data of the accepted print job is to be held.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hisashi Koike
  • Patent number: 9141322
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes storing, display, selection, receiving, determining, and control units. The storing unit stores attribute information about a sheet to be stored in each of a plurality of sheet holding units. The selection unit selects a job displayed by the display unit. The receiving unit receives an execution instruction for the selected job. The determining unit determines whether attribute information about a sheet to be used in the selected job corresponds to stored sheet attribute information. The control unit performs control in such a way as to prevent first attribute information, about a sheet to be used in a first job determined as being inconsistent, from being stored for a sheet holding unit in which second attribute information, about a sheet to be used in a second job selected at earlier timing by the selection unit than the first job, corresponds to the stored sheet attribute information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiko Iida, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Hisashi Koike
  • Publication number: 20150262041
    Abstract: There are provided a printing apparatus which holds a job, determines whether attribution information of a sheet to be used by the stored job is registered for a sheet storage unit, judges whether a sheet exists in a sheet storage unit to be used by the job, and notifies a result of the determination and a result of the judgment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshiji Kanamoto, Hisashi Koike
  • Patent number: 9058555
    Abstract: There are provided a printing apparatus which holds a job, determines whether attribution information of a sheet to be used by the stored job is registered for a sheet storage unit, judges whether a sheet exists in a sheet storage unit to be used by the job, and notifies a result of the determination and a result of the judgment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiji Kanamoto, Hisashi Koike
  • Publication number: 20150043035
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes storing, display, selection, receiving, determining, and control units. The storing unit stores attribute information about a sheet to be stored in each of a plurality of sheet holding units. The selection unit selects a job displayed by the display unit. The receiving unit receives an execution instruction for the selected job. The determining unit determines whether attribute information about a sheet to be used in the selected job corresponds to stored sheet attribute information. The control unit performs control in such a way as to prevent first attribute information, about a sheet to be used in a first job determined as being inconsistent, from being stored for a sheet holding unit in which second attribute information, about a sheet to be used in a second job selected at earlier timing by the selection unit than the first job, corresponds to the stored sheet attribute information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Toshihiko Iida, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Hisashi Koike
  • Publication number: 20150029558
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a display unit, a storing unit, a determining unit, and a notification unit. The display unit displays jobs. The storing unit stores attribute information of a sheet to be stored in sheet holding units. The determining unit determines, from among the jobs displayable on the display unit, a job where attribute information of a sheet to be used by the job does not correspond to the sheet attribute information stored in the storing unit. The notification unit notifies a user of the number of jobs determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Hisashi Koike
  • Publication number: 20150002881
    Abstract: It is determined whether an attribute of the sheet of a printing target job is different from the attribute of a sheet in a sheet storage unit designated by the attribute of the sheet of the job. When it is determined that the attribute of the sheet of the printing target job is different from the attribute of the sheet in the sheet storage unit, it is determined whether the attribute of the sheet of another job also designates the sheet storage unit. When it is determined that the attribute of the sheet of the other job also designates the sheet storage unit, a warning about a change of the attribute of the sheet in the sheet storage unit is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Hisashi Koike
  • Patent number: 8911056
    Abstract: An electronic instrument is adapted to communicate with another electronic instrument. The electronic instrument includes an acquisition section, a storage section, an inquiry section and a processing section. The acquisition section is configured to acquire identification information from a managed article used by the electronic instrument, the identification information being read-only information uniquely assigned to the managed article. The storage section is configured to store the identification information acquired by the acquisition section. The inquiry section is configured to inquire another electronic instrument as to whether the identification information acquired by the acquisition section is already stored in another electronic instrument. The processing section is configured to perform processing in response to a result of inquiry by the inquiry section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tadahiro Mizutani, Masaru Takahashi, Hisashi Koike
  • Patent number: 8860975
    Abstract: A printing apparatus that can process, as a single job, a plurality of records each including a plurality of pages determines whether error information is included in an inspection result acquired from an inspection apparatus, before terminating print processing of each record. Then, if a job control unit determines that the error information is included, the printing apparatus does not perform print processing for a record that follows a print processing completed record and displays a print instruction screen that includes record information generated from the inspection result on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hisashi Koike
  • Patent number: 8797556
    Abstract: A printing apparatus for performing job printing includes a reception unit configured to receive information about a print unit with respect to the job and information about an attribute of recording medium to be used in the print processing, and a printing unit configured to print the job using the recording medium by the print unit, using the information about the print unit received by the reception unit and the information about the attribute of the recording medium to be used in the print processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hisashi Koike
  • Publication number: 20140168671
    Abstract: There are provided a printing apparatus which holds a job, determines whether attribution information of a sheet to be used by the stored job is registered for a sheet storage unit, judges whether a sheet exists in a sheet storage unit to be used by the job, and notifies a result of the determination and a result of the judgment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiji Kanamoto, Hisashi Koike
  • Patent number: 8694552
    Abstract: A management system includes an electronic instrument that uses a managed article, and a management server. The electronic instrument is configured to acquire identification information from the managed article used by the electronic instrument with the identification information being read-only information, and to transmit information including the identification information to the management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Koike, Minoru Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20130314733
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an accepting unit configured to accept a print job, a first determination unit configured to determine whether the accepted print job is of a first type or a second type, a second determination unit configured to, if the first determination unit determines the accepted print job as the first type and if a job control code included in the accepted print job indicates hold, determine that data of the accepted print job is to be held, if the first determination unit determines that the accepted print job as the first type and if the job control code indicates print, determine that the data of the accepted print job is to be printed, and if the first determination unit determines that the accepted print job as the second type, determine that the data of the accepted print job is to be held.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hisashi Koike
  • Patent number: 8325386
    Abstract: The transfer of a duplicate electronic document between image forming devices is done with an electronic document that is formed of only resolution-independent vector data and the like, and a normal printing of the duplicate electronic document or printing of different resolution is performed by developing the vector data. In high-quality printing of the duplicate electronic document, a Fill Map included in the original document the information indicating the location of an electronic document of copy source that is embedded in a metadata specifies is obtained, and this printing is made using the Fill Map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hisashi Koike
  • Patent number: 8291591
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid container, the liquid container including a liquid containing chamber in which a liquid can be contained, an air communicating passage allowing the liquid containing chamber to communicate with the air, a liquid supply port for supplying the liquid contained in the liquid container to an outside, a liquid flow passage allowing the liquid container and the liquid supply port to communicate with each other, a valve accommodating chamber disposed in the liquid flow passage, a differential pressure valve which is disposed in the valve accommodating chamber, which is normally urged to a closed state, and which is changed from the closed state to an opened state when a differential pressure of a side of the liquid supply port and a side of the liquid containing chamber is equal to or more than a predetermined value, and a film member forming a part of the valve accommodating chamber, the method includes: pressing a valve body of the differential pressure valve in a direction in wh
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Chiaki Miyajima, Masahide Matsuyama, Yuichi Seki, Satoshi Shinada, Hisashi Koike
  • Publication number: 20120257232
    Abstract: A printing apparatus for performing job printing includes a reception unit configured to receive information about a print unit with respect to the job and information about an attribute of recording medium to be used in the print processing, and a printing unit configured to print the job using the recording medium by the print unit, using the information about the print unit received by the reception unit and the information about the attribute of the recording medium to be used in the print processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hisashi Koike
  • Publication number: 20120218587
    Abstract: A printing apparatus that can process, as a single job, a plurality of records each including a plurality of pages determines whether error information is included in an inspection result acquired from an inspection apparatus, before terminating print processing of each record. Then, if a job control unit determines that the error information is included, the printing apparatus does not perform print processing for a record that follows a print processing completed record and displays a print instruction screen that includes record information generated from the inspection result on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hisashi Koike