Patents by Inventor Kimio Hayashi

Kimio Hayashi 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: 11956406
    Abstract: A system for performing color validation by comparing a color measurement result of a chart and a color reference, the system including a first information processing apparatus, wherein the first information processing apparatus includes a colorimetric setting for performing color validation by comparing a color measurement result of a chart and a color reference, a transmission unit configured to transmit screen information of a screen for receiving a chart printing instruction, a receiving unit configured to receive the colorimetric setting and the chart printing instruction, and a generation unit configured to generate print data of a chart based on the colorimetric setting and the chart printing instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kimio Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20240069822
    Abstract: When the number of real-time events received from the same device exceeds a threshold value within a predetermined period of time, the monitoring server transmits a data sending request for stopping transmission of real-time events but transmitting regular events to the device. When it is determined, based on the regular events received from the device that has been stopped from transmitting real-time events, that the abnormality in the device has been resolved, a data sending request for restarting to transmit real-time events is transmitted to the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kimio Hayashi, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Toshihiko Iida
  • Patent number: 11836398
    Abstract: Instruction information on quality inspection of a printed matter is acquired, and it is determined whether the instruction information identifies an inspection target by identification information of an object or by coordinate information. An inspection position is identified in accordance with the determination result, and quality inspection of the printed matter is performed by using the identified inspection position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiko Iida, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Kimio Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11789680
    Abstract: A workflow control method is provided for processing, by an information processing apparatus, submission data in each process of a workflow to produce a print product. In the method, the submission data is accepted by the information processing apparatus. If new submission data to original submission data is submitted, it is determined whether a current processing step for the original submission data is a specific process or a process after that. If it is determined that the current processing step is the specific process or the process after that, the new submission data is not accepted, and otherwise, the new submission data is accepted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiji Kanamoto, Toshihiko Iida, Kimio Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11662961
    Abstract: Delivery form information on a print product is acquired, position information indicating a position of quality inspection on the print product is generated in accordance with the acquired delivery form information, and quality report data including the position information is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiji Kanamoto, Toshihiko Iida, Kimio Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20230109812
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive order data for a printed product, and content data for the order data, and a control unit configured to perform control in such a manner as to perform production of the printed product. The order data for the printed product and the content data for the order data are received at different timings. The receiving unit further receives finalized information about the content data. The control unit performs control in such a manner as to perform production of the printed product based on the order data, the content data and the finalized information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshiji Kanamoto, Kimio Hayashi, Toshihiko Iida
  • Publication number: 20230095581
    Abstract: A system for performing color validation by comparing a color measurement result of a chart and a color reference, the system including a first information processing apparatus, wherein the first information processing apparatus includes a colorimetric setting for performing color validation by comparing a color measurement result of a chart and a color reference, a transmission unit configured to transmit screen information of a screen for receiving a chart printing instruction, a receiving unit configured to receive the colorimetric setting and the chart printing instruction, and a generation unit configured to generate print data of a chart based on the colorimetric setting and the chart printing instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Kimio Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20230094438
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a web browser, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a color measurement device, a color measurement result which is a result obtained by performing color measurement of a printed chart using the color measurement device, wherein a screen related to color measurement of a chart for performing color validation by comparing a color measurement result of a chart and a color reference is displayed using the web browser, and wherein the color measurement result acquired by the acquisition unit is displayed using the web browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Kimio Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20220382498
    Abstract: A workflow control method is provided for processing, by an information processing apparatus, submission data in each process of a workflow to produce a print product. In the method, the submission data is accepted by the information processing apparatus. If new submission data to original submission data is submitted, it is determined whether a current processing step for the original submission data is a specific process or a process after that. If it is determined that the current processing step is the specific process or the process after that, the new submission data is not accepted, and otherwise, the new submission data is accepted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshiji Kanamoto, Toshihiko Iida, Kimio Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20220283762
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided, which performs: acquiring an inspection result obtained by inspecting quality of a print product; receiving quality request data including an evaluation criterion; specifying a quality level of the print product based on the evaluation criterion included in the quality request data and the inspection result; creating quality report data including the inspection result and the quality level; and transmitting the quality report data to a predetermined external apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Kimio Hayashi, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Toshihiko Iida
  • Patent number: 11397548
    Abstract: An inspection apparatus that inspects the quality of a printed product printed by a print apparatus receives information indicating a reference image, from an information processing apparatus that transmits a print job to the print apparatus. The inspection apparatus acquires the reference image based on the information indicating the reference image. The inspection apparatus receives from the print apparatus a scanned image of the printed product printed based on the print job received from the information processing apparatus, and inspects the quality of the printed product based on a comparison between the received scanned image and the acquired reference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kimio Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20220156020
    Abstract: Instruction information on quality inspection of a printed matter is acquired, and it is determined whether the instruction information identifies an inspection target by identification information of an object or by coordinate information. An inspection position is identified in accordance with the determination result, and quality inspection of the printed matter is performed by using the identified inspection position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Toshihiko Iida, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Kimio Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20220156019
    Abstract: Delivery form information on a print product is acquired, position information indicating a position of quality inspection on the print product is generated in accordance with the acquired delivery form information, and quality report data including the position information is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshiji Kanamoto, Toshihiko Iida, Kimio Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210397386
    Abstract: An inspection apparatus that inspects the quality of a printed product printed by a print apparatus receives information indicating a reference image, from an information processing apparatus that transmits a print job to the print apparatus. The inspection apparatus acquires the reference image based on the information indicating the reference image. The inspection apparatus receives from the print apparatus a scanned image of the printed product printed based on the print job received from the information processing apparatus, and inspects the quality of the printed product based on a comparison between the received scanned image and the acquired reference image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventor: Kimio Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11079979
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus receives designation of a level of a print quality requirement concerning a print product, identifies a quality level for each of a plurality of print parameters corresponding to the received level of the print quality requirement concerning the print product based on a table in which the level of a print quality requirement is associated with a quality level for each of the plurality of print parameters, and outputs requirement data representing the identified quality level for each of the print parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kimio Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10871929
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor that acquires a state of a paper feeding stage from an image forming apparatus of interest, and determines, based on the state of the paper feeding stage, whether or not the image forming apparatus of interest has a number of sheets that are to be consumed for a printing job of interest. The processor also determines that the image forming apparatus determined to have the number of sheets, is a transmission destination of the printing job of interest. If one of paper feeding stages of the image forming apparatus of interest has the number of sheets to be consumed for the printing job of interest, the processor sets the printing job of interest so as to preferentially supply sheets from the paper feeding stage determined to have the number of sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kimio Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10810459
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a generating unit configured to generate a reference image based on an image of a first object, an image of a second object, and processing information on processes including a process of inserting a second object into the first object. The first object has at least one window portion through which the inserted second object is at least partially visible, a verifying unit configured to verify a captured image with the generated reference image, the captured image being obtained by capturing the first object into which the second object has been inserted, and an outputting unit configured to output a result of the verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kimio Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20200293241
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus receives designation of a level of a print quality requirement concerning a print product, identifies a quality level for each of a plurality of print parameters corresponding to the received level of the print quality requirement concerning the print product based on a table in which the level of a print quality requirement is associated with a quality level for each of the plurality of print parameters, and outputs requirement data representing the identified quality level for each of the print parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventor: Kimio Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190095154
    Abstract: The amount of paper that remains in a paper feeding tray and the amount of paper that is to be used for a printing job are compared based on information regarding the paper feeding tray acquired from an image forming apparatus, a printing job status in the image forming apparatus, and information regarding the paper that is to be used for the printing job to be transmitted to the image forming apparatus, and an image forming apparatus that reduces the number of times paper replacement and paper replenishment occur for the printing job is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Kimio Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10114597
    Abstract: An information processing device extracts a partial area corresponding to a newly placed printed product, from a captured image as a result of capturing an image of a predetermined image capturing area in which a printed product generated based on an order is placed, acquires from the table, slip information corresponding to image data obtained by searching the table for image data representing an image that matches or is similar to an image in the partial area, and generates print data of a slip corresponding to the newly placed printed product based on the acquired slip information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kimio Hayashi