Patents by Inventor Kimito Kasahara

Kimito Kasahara 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: 11159686
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus provides a user with a menu screen having a button arrangement that is easy for the user to find a desired button. Accordingly, a rank of a button for executing processing related to a state of the image processing apparatus is changed to be high in an arrangement order of buttons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara
  • Patent number: 11126491
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes sensors for detecting a plurality of types of errors. The information processing apparatus identifies a type of an error detected by one of the sensors, acquires a result of diagnostic processing corresponding to the identified type of the error, and outputs error information indicating the identified type of the error, and diagnostic information about a component corresponding to the result of the diagnostic processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norihiko Kobayashi, Kimito Kasahara, Kaori Nishiyama, Naoto Watanabe, Keisuke Aizono, Satoshi Seki, Masahiro Mutsuno, Takuma Yasukawa, Yuki Suetani, Toshiyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 10996998
    Abstract: A native client transmits, in accordance with a request from an image processing plugin application executed in a Java execution environment, a processing request for requesting execution of image processing using a native module executed in a C/C++ execution environment. A native server receives the processing request transmitted from the native client and executes the image processing by executing the native module in accordance with the received processing request. The native server is operated on a native control process that uses a memory space independent of a memory space used in the Java execution environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20210058524
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus provides a user with a menu screen having a button arrangement that is easy for the user to find a desired button. Accordingly, a rank of a button for executing processing related to a state of the image processing apparatus is changed to be high in an arrangement order of buttons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara
  • Patent number: 10911628
    Abstract: In a client machine that collects first data that is operation information of an apparatus and second data related to a use situation of a plurality of pieces of hardware including a processor, a memory, and a storage, control is performed so that, in a case where the client machine is in a power-saving state at a timing when data that is collected in the apparatus is transmitted to an external system, recovery from the power-saving state is performed and transmission of the first data is not restricted, and transmission of the second data is restricted, and in a case where the client machine is not in the power-saving state at the timing, the transmission of the first data and the transmission of the second data are not restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20200304674
    Abstract: In a client machine that collects first data that is operation information of an apparatus and second data related to a use situation of a plurality of pieces of hardware including a processor, a memory, and a storage, control is performed so that, in a case where the client machine is in a power-saving state at a timing when data that is collected in the apparatus is transmitted to an external system, recovery from the power-saving state is performed and transmission of the first data is not restricted, and transmission of the second data is restricted, and in a case where the client machine is not in the power-saving state at the timing, the transmission of the first data and the transmission of the second data are not restricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara
  • Patent number: 10691389
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus collects data produced in association with processing carried out by the information processing apparatus, and buffers the collected data in a first data format. The first data format is different from a second data format used for transmission to an external server apparatus. The information processing apparatus converts the format of the buffered data from the first data format to the second data format before transmitting the buffered data to the server apparatus. Then, the information processing apparatus transmits the data in the second data format to the server apparatus as an event log of the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20190324833
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes sensors for detecting a plurality of types of errors. The information processing apparatus identifies a type of an error detected by one of the sensors, acquires a result of diagnostic processing corresponding to the identified type of the error, and outputs error information indicating the identified type of the error, and diagnostic information about a component corresponding to the result of the diagnostic processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Norihiko Kobayashi, Kimito Kasahara, Kaori Nishiyama, Naoto Watanabe, Keisuke Aizono, Satoshi Seki, Masahiro Mutsuno, Takuma Yasukawa, Yuki Suetani, Toshiyuki Miyake
  • Publication number: 20190265931
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus collects data produced in association with processing carried out by the information processing apparatus, and buffers the collected data in a first data format. The first data format is different from a second data format used for transmission to an external server apparatus. The information processing apparatus converts the format of the buffered data from the first data format to the second data format before transmitting the buffered data to the server apparatus. Then, the information processing apparatus transmits the data in the second data format to the server apparatus as an event log of the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20190108070
    Abstract: A native client transmits, in accordance with a request from an image processing plugin application executed in a Java execution environment, a processing request for requesting execution of image processing using a native module executed in a C/C++ execution environment. A native server receives the processing request transmitted from the native client and executes the image processing by executing the native module in accordance with the received processing request. The native server is operated on a native control process that uses a memory space independent of a memory space used in the Java execution environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara
  • Patent number: 9766838
    Abstract: In an image processing apparatus that communicates with a server apparatus, specific information indicating a function of the server apparatus is acquired from the server apparatus in advance. The image processing apparatus performs control so that, when data to be printed is selected, data to be printed which cannot be converted, and for which it is determined based on the acquired specific information that the server apparatus cannot perform conversion cannot be selected as a printing candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20170153587
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided that includes an accepting unit configured to accept input of a condition of increasing a printing speed, and a control unit configured to increase the printing speed of print data in a case where the print data satisfies the condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara
  • Patent number: 9544098
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, connected to a management server managing a set value used among a plurality of information processing apparatuses, can perform an appropriate process according to the situation of an information processing system and can prevent wasteful power consumption thereof. A set value acquired from the management server and changed by the information processing apparatus is transmitted to the management server, but when the transmission fails, the transmission of the changed set value is retried, and it is switched according to a classification of the set value to be transmitted whether the retry is stopped or is continued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara
  • Patent number: 9304715
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a setting history indicating a setting content relating to an executed processing, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a definition file, and a processing unit configured to execute the processing according to the acquired definition file. Whether the processing which has been executed in the image processing apparatus is processing based on the definition file is determined. In a case where the executed processing is the processing based on the definition file, the setting history indicating the setting content relating to the processing is not stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20150178030
    Abstract: A network device communicates with a management server for managing master data of a setting value to be set in a plurality of network devices. The network device includes a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction for a change of the setting value; a storing unit configured to store a job in a memory unit; an executing unit configured to execute the change of the setting value in response to a success of the storage of the job; a request unit configured to request the management server to modify and reflect the change of the setting value; and a notifying unit configured to notify the completion of the change of the setting value without waiting for a response from the management server in response to the completion of the change of the setting value by the executing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20150143193
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, connected to a management server managing a set value used among a plurality of information processing apparatuses, can perform an appropriate process according to the situation of an information processing system and can prevent wasteful power consumption thereof. A set value acquired from the management server and changed by the information processing apparatus is transmitted to the management server, but when the transmission fails, the transmission of the changed set value is retried, and it is switched according to a classification of the set value to be transmitted whether the retry is stopped or is continued.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventor: Kimito KASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20150015912
    Abstract: In an image processing apparatus that communicates with a server apparatus, specific information indicating a function of the server apparatus is acquired from the server apparatus in advance. The image processing apparatus performs control so that, when data to be printed is selected, data to be printed which cannot be converted, and for which it is determined based on the acquired specific information that the server apparatus cannot perform conversion cannot be selected as a printing candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara
  • Patent number: 8555399
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of preventing user's personal information from leaking even when transmission destination information managed in a user-specific address book is transferred to an apparatus users' shared address book. The apparatus is equipped with a function for managing destination information n on a destination indicative of an external apparatus to which data is to be transmitted. An apparatus users' shared address book area stored destination information available to any user. A user-specific address book area stores destination information which can be accessed only by a specific user. When the destination information stored in the user-specific address book is transferred to the apparatus users' shared address book in response to a user's operation, user's personal information included in the destination information is deleted before the transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara
  • Patent number: 8285644
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus which is capable of easily determining, when a user causes the apparatus to scan a sheet original to carry out predetermined processing, whether or not the sheet original has been modified or edited from a document file as the source of the sheet original. A scanner section not only reads an original and generates original image data, but also recognizes information embedded in the original. Rights information concerning the original is acquired based on the information embedded in the original. A controller unit determines whether or not the original has been edited, and performs control based on contents of the rights information and a result of the determination, such that execution of processing, which is designated by a user, on the original image data is permitted or restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20110216339
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a setting history indicating a setting content relating to an executed processing, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a definition file, and a processing unit configured to execute the processing according to the acquired definition file. Whether the processing which has been executed in the image processing apparatus is processing based on the definition file is determined. In a case where the executed processing is the processing based on the definition file, the setting history indicating the setting content relating to the processing is not stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kimito Kasahara