Patents by Inventor Kiyokazu Umimura

Kiyokazu Umimura 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: 11843310
    Abstract: In order to eliminate inconvenience that the voltage accuracy requirement for a power supply voltage of an ASIC cannot be satisfied because noise generated inside a substrate is superimposed on the power supply voltage, an LDO and an LC filter are added between a DC-DC converter and a power supply terminal of the ASIC to reduce the noise superimposed on the power supply voltage, the LDO is added to the subsequent stage of the DC-DC converter to reduce noise generated from the DC-DC converter, and further the LC filter is added to the subsequent stage of the LDO to reduce noise generated due to crosstalk or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kiyokazu Umimura
  • Publication number: 20230273798
    Abstract: A first processor performs a falsification detection on a first boot code based on activation of an information processing apparatus, and in a case where no falsification of the first boot code is detected and version information about the first boot code and version information about a second boot code are different from each other, the first processor overwrites the second boot code with the first boot code after reset processing of a second processor is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventor: KIYOKAZU UMIMURA
  • Publication number: 20210211552
    Abstract: In order to eliminate inconvenience that the voltage accuracy requirement for a power supply voltage of an ASIC cannot be satisfied because noise generated inside a substrate is superimposed on the power supply voltage, an LDO and an LC filter are added between a DC-DC converter and a power supply terminal of the ASIC to reduce the noise superimposed on the power supply voltage, the LDO is added to the subsequent stage of the DC-DC converter to reduce noise generated from the DC-DC converter, and further the LC filter is added to the subsequent stage of the LDO to reduce noise generated due to crosstalk or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventor: Kiyokazu UMIMURA
  • Patent number: 11006013
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a CPU for controlling the image processing apparatus and a microcomputer that verifies alteration of a program that is stored in a nonvolatile memory and that the CPU executes, and that outputs a notification signal that indicates the verification result. The image processing apparatus comprises a power source control unit for controlling a power source of the image processing apparatus, and the power source control unit, when the image processing apparatus is activated, supplies power to the microcomputer, and when a notification signal outputted from the microcomputer is received, holds the verification result that the notification signal indicates and shuts off the supply of power to the microcomputer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kiyokazu Umimura
  • Publication number: 20200142651
    Abstract: The present invention directs to an image forming apparatus comprising: a switch; a state holding unit that holds a state of the switch; a power supply control unit that controls power supply of the apparatus based on the state of the switch held by the state holding unit; and a monitoring unit that monitors a state of the state holding unit, wherein the power supply control unit controls power supply of the apparatus based on the state of the state holding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventor: Kiyokazu Umimura
  • Patent number: 10534423
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes two storage devices, a semiconductor storage device and a magnetic storage device, and controls which of the storage devices is to provide a swap area corresponding to a power saving mode set in accordance with a user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kiyokazu Umimura
  • Publication number: 20190230240
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a CPU for controlling the image processing apparatus and a microcomputer that verifies alteration of a program that is stored in a nonvolatile memory and that the CPU executes, and that outputs a notification signal that indicates the verification result. The image processing apparatus comprises a power source control unit for controlling a power source of the image processing apparatus, and the power source control unit, when the image processing apparatus is activated, supplies power to the microcomputer, and when a notification signal outputted from the microcomputer is received, holds the verification result that the notification signal indicates and shuts off the supply of power to the microcomputer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Kiyokazu Umimura
  • Publication number: 20170371398
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes two storage devices, a semiconductor storage device and a magnetic storage device, and controls which of the storage devices is to provide a swap area corresponding to a power saving mode set in accordance with a user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: Kiyokazu Umimura
  • Patent number: 9581950
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first power supply unit configured to generate first output power, a second power supply unit configured to generate second output power, a switching unit disposed on the primary side of the second power supply unit, a monitoring unit configured to monitor the second output power generated by the second power supply unit, a power source control unit supplied with the first output power, and configured to turn the switching unit ON or OFF, and a control unit supplied with the first output power, and configured to control operations of the power source control unit. When the second output power is lower than a threshold value, the power source control unit turns the switching unit OFF and then back to ON in a state where the first output power generated by the first power supply unit is supplied to the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kiyokazu Umimura
  • Patent number: 9571673
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus equipped with a sleep function and for forming an image using an image forming unit and a control method thereof. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit that controls the image forming unit. When a job is received in a sleep state, a port number of the received job is discriminated, whether or not to perform initialization processing of the image forming unit is determined based on the discriminated port number, and in a case that it is determined that initialization processing of the image forming unit is necessary, initialization processing of the image forming unit is started and thereafter the control unit is controlled to start processing of the job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keishi Inaba, Koji Shimizu, Kohei Asano, Kiyokazu Umimura, Yuji Naya, Yuichi Konosu
  • Patent number: 9417593
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first power supply unit to output first output power, a first device to which the first output power is supplied, a second power supply unit to output second output power, a second device to which the second output power is supplied, a detection unit to detect an overcurrent of the second power supply unit, a power source control unit to which the first output power is supplied and to switch between supplying and shutting-off of the second output power to the second device, and a control unit to which the first output power is supplied and to control an operation of the power source control unit. When the detection unit detects an overcurrent of the second output power, the power source control unit shuts off the second output power to the second device, and the control unit executes finish processing for the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kiyokazu Umimura
  • Publication number: 20160033913
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first power supply unit configured to generate first output power, a second power supply unit configured to generate second output power, a switching unit disposed on the primary side of the second power supply unit, a monitoring unit configured to monitor the second output power generated by the second power supply unit, a power source control unit supplied with the first output power, and configured to turn the switching unit ON or OFF, and a control unit supplied with the first output power, and configured to control operations of the power source control unit. When the second output power is lower than a threshold value, the power source control unit turns the switching unit OFF and then back to ON in a state where the first output power generated by the first power supply unit is supplied to the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventor: Kiyokazu Umimura
  • Patent number: 9245218
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of communicating with a server apparatus, includes a receiving unit configured to receive a packet from the server apparatus, a determining unit configured to determine whether a packet received by the receiving unit is a specific packet, a power supply control unit which, when the determining unit determines that a packet received by the receiving unit is the specific packet, brings the image forming apparatus into a first power condition which enables the image forming apparatus to start quickly using data stored in a volatile memory, and a start control unit configured to start the image forming apparatus quickly using data stored in the volatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Naya, Keishi Inaba, Koji Shimizu, Kohei Asano, Kiyokazu Umimura, Yuichi Konosu
  • Publication number: 20150331926
    Abstract: The invention relates to an information processing apparatus which performs mirroring for synchronizing storage contents of a first storage unit and a second storage unit. If mirroring is valid when the information processing apparatus is started, the information processing apparatus detects a storage unit attached to itself. If a detection result indicates that no storage unit has been detected or one storage unit has been detected, the information processing apparatus displays, on a display unit, a connection acknowledgement screen for the storage unit which has not been detected. If the detection result indicates that two storage units have been detected, activation processing is executed for the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Koji Shimizu, Keishi Inaba, Kohei Asano, Kiyokazu Umimura, Yuji Naya, Yuichi Konosu
  • Patent number: 9188936
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first power supply unit configured to generate first output power, a second power supply unit configured to generate second output power, a switching unit disposed on the primary side of the second power supply unit, a monitoring unit configured to monitor the second output power generated by the second power supply unit, a power source control unit supplied with the first output power, and configured to turn the switching unit ON or OFF, and a control unit supplied with the first output power, and configured to control operations of the power source control unit. When the second output power is lower than a threshold value, the power source control unit turns the switching unit OFF and then back to ON in a state where the first output power generated by the first power supply unit is supplied to the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kiyokazu Umimura
  • Patent number: 9131090
    Abstract: The invention relates to an information processing apparatus which performs mirroring for synchronizing storage contents of a first storage unit and a second storage unit. If mirroring is valid when the information processing apparatus is started, the information processing apparatus detects a storage unit attached to itself. If a detection result indicates that no storage unit has been detected or one storage unit has been detected, the information processing apparatus displays, on a display unit, a connection acknowledgement screen for the storage unit which has not been detected. If the detection result indicates that two storage units have been detected, activation processing is executed for the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Shimizu, Keishi Inaba, Kohei Asano, Kiyokazu Umimura, Yuji Naya, Yuichi Konosu
  • Publication number: 20150022858
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of communicating with a server apparatus, includes a receiving unit configured to receive a packet from the server apparatus, a determining unit configured to determine whether a packet received by the receiving unit is a specific packet, a power supply control unit which, when the determining unit determines that a packet received by the receiving unit is the specific packet, brings the image forming apparatus into a first power condition which enables the image forming apparatus to start quickly using data stored in a volatile memory, and a start control unit configured to start the image forming apparatus quickly using data stored in the volatile memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Yuji Naya, Keishi Inaba, Koji Shimizu, Kohei Asano, Kiyokazu Umimura, Yuichi Konosu
  • Publication number: 20150003856
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first power supply unit configured to generate first output power, a second power supply unit configured to generate second output power, a switching unit disposed on the primary side of the second power supply unit, a monitoring unit configured to monitor the second output power generated by the second power supply unit, a power source control unit supplied with the first output power, and configured to turn the switching unit ON or OFF, and a control unit supplied with the first output power, and configured to control operations of the power source control unit. When the second output power is lower than a threshold value, the power source control unit turns the switching unit OFF and then back to ON in a state where the first output power generated by the first power supply unit is supplied to the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Kiyokazu Umimura
  • Publication number: 20150003850
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first power supply unit to output first output power, a first device to which the first output power is supplied, a second power supply unit to output second output power, a second device to which the second output power is supplied, a detection unit to detect an overcurrent of the second power supply unit, a power source control unit to which the first output power is supplied and to switch between supplying and shutting-off of the second output power to the second device, and a control unit to which the first output power is supplied and to control an operation of the power source control unit. When the detection unit detects an overcurrent of the second output power, the power source control unit shuts off the second output power to the second device, and the control unit executes finish processing for the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Kiyokazu Umimura
  • Patent number: 8885198
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate with a server apparatus, a power supply control unit configured to repeat power supply to the communication unit, and an inquiry unit configured to make an inquiry to the server apparatus about whether to turn on a second power supply unit that energizes a controller that controls the image forming apparatus, each time the communication unit becomes communicable with the server apparatus by the power supply control unit, wherein the power supply control unit repeats power supply to the communication unit for each of a plurality of predetermined time periods, until receiving a response to turn on the power of the second power supply unit from the server apparatus in response to the inquiry by the inquiry unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Naya, Keishi Inaba, Koji Shimizu, Kohei Asano, Kiyokazu Umimura, Yuichi Konosu