Patents by Inventor Junichi Suwa

Junichi Suwa 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: 20260029969
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first obtaining unit configured to obtain information on an item selected by a user from items each specifying a problem tending to occur in execution of a print job; a second obtaining unit configured to obtain setting information of a print job selected by the user from print jobs which were executed by an image forming apparatus and which were extracted as candidates for a job in which the problem specified by the selected item occurred; and a display control unit configured to display a screen which contains a solution for the problem based on the information obtained by the first obtaining unit and contains the setting information of the print job obtained by the second obtaining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2025
    Publication date: January 29, 2026
    Inventor: JUNICHI SUWA
  • Publication number: 20250317520
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, at least one processor, and at least one memory that is in communication with the at least one processor. The at least one memory stores instructions for causing the at least one processor and the at least one memory to control the display to display a plurality of items corresponding to a plurality of executed jobs, accept a selection of an item from the plurality of items, perform a diagnosis of the information processing apparatus based on acceptance of the selection of the item, and, in a case where the plurality of items is displayed, perform a diagnosis without the selection of the item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2025
    Publication date: October 9, 2025
    Inventor: JUNICHI SUWA
  • Publication number: 20250245819
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to perform setting to inspect a printed sheet includes: at least one memory that stores instructions; and at least one processor that executes the instructions to: set an inspection region for each inspection level indicating accuracy of the inspection based on a first user instruction for a reference image, which is a reference for the inspection; and extract an object existing in the reference image, in which in a case where a plurality of inspection regions which have the different inspection levels are set for the extracted object based on the first user instruction, one inspection region is determined from the plurality of the inspection regions based on a proportion of each of the plurality of the inspection regions included in the object, and the inspection level corresponding to the determined one inspection region is set as the inspection level for the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventor: JUNICHI SUWA
  • Patent number: 12159068
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive information regarding a size of an image, a setting value regarding N-in-one printing, and a post-processing position from an information processing apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine whether the received setting value regarding the N-in-one printing is a predetermined setting value, a change unit configured to, in a case where the determination unit determines that the received setting value regarding the N-in-one printing is the predetermined setting value, change the received post-processing position based on the received information regarding the size of the image, and an image forming unit configured to form the image received from the information processing apparatus on a recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junichi Suwa
  • Patent number: 11820615
    Abstract: In a sheet conveyance apparatus a control unit controls lifting and lowering of a sheet supporting portion by a lifting unit and executes a mixed feeding in one of a plurality of modes including a first mode and a second mode. The mixed feeding is an operation in which a plurality of sheets having different lengths in a width direction orthogonal to a feed direction of a sheet feeding unit are fed by the feeding unit, wherein in the first mode, the control unit causes the lifting unit to move the supporting portion from the second position to the first position based on an instruction to start sheet feeding, and in the second mode, the control unit causes the lifting unit to move the supporting portion from the second position to the first position based on a detection of a sheet by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Junichi Suwa
  • Publication number: 20230289109
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive information regarding a size of an image, a setting value regarding N-in-one printing, and a post-processing position from an information processing apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine whether the received setting value regarding the N-in-one printing is a predetermined setting value, a change unit configured to, in a case where the determination unit determines that the received setting value regarding the N-in-one printing is the predetermined setting value, change the received post-processing position based on the received information regarding the size of the image, and an image forming unit configured to form the image received from the information processing apparatus on a recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventor: JUNICHI SUWA
  • Publication number: 20230051220
    Abstract: In a sheet conveyance apparatus a control unit controls lifting and lowering of a sheet supporting portion by a lifting unit and executes a mixed feeding in one of a plurality of modes including a first mode and a second mode. The mixed feeding is an operation in which a plurality of sheets having different lengths in a width direction orthogonal to a feed direction of a sheet feeding unit are fed by the feeding unit, wherein in the first mode, the control unit causes the lifting unit to move the supporting portion from the second position to the first position based on an instruction to start sheet feeding, and in the second mode, the control unit causes the lifting unit to move the supporting portion from the second position to the first position based on a detection of a sheet by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventor: Junichi Suwa
  • Patent number: 11530101
    Abstract: A control unit is capable of selectively executing a first mode and a second mode, the first mode being a mode in which a plurality of sheets having different sizes including a non-standard size are fed by the feeding unit, and the second mode being a mode in which a plurality of sheets having different sizes including only standard sizes are fed by the feeding unit. If the detection unit detects a sheet in a state where the supporting portion is located at the second position and the first mode is selected, the control unit waits for an instruction to start sheet feeding without causing the lifting unit to lift the supporting portion to the first position, and causes the lifting unit to lift the supporting portion to the first position in response to the instruction to start sheet feeding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Junichi Suwa
  • Publication number: 20210371220
    Abstract: A control unit is capable of selectively executing a first mode and a second mode, the first mode being a mode in which a plurality of sheets having different sizes including a non-standard size are fed by the feeding unit, the second mode being a mode in which a plurality of sheets having different sizes including only standard sizes are fed by the feeding unit. If the detection unit detects a sheet in a state where the supporting portion is located at the second position and the first mode is selected, the control unit waits for an instruction to start sheet feeding without causing the lifting unit to lift the supporting portion to the first position, and causes the lifting unit to lift the supporting portion to the first position in response to the instruction to start sheet feeding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventor: Junichi Suwa
  • Publication number: 20200119675
    Abstract: A motor control device include a detector that detects a drive current flowing through a winding of a motor, a first determiner that determines a rotation phase of a rotor of the motor, using preset control values, a controller that controls the drive current to reduce a deflection between the rotation phase determined by the first determiner and an instructed phase representing a target phase of the rotor, a first discriminator that determines whether rotation of the motor is abnormal, and a second discriminator that identifies a type of a motor attached to the motor control device. If the first discriminator determines that the rotation of the motor attached to the motor control device is abnormal, the controller sets a control value corresponding to the type of the motor identified by the second discriminator, as the control value that the first determiner uses when determining the rotation phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yuya Tanaka, Junichi Suwa, Yushi Oka