Patents by Inventor Makiya Tamura

Makiya Tamura 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: 20160006900
    Abstract: To facilitate document read setting suitable for storage folder, a method for controlling an image processing apparatus includes generating image data indicating an image of an original read by a reading unit, designating a folder to store the generated image data, acquiring a read setting corresponding to the designated folder, and reading the image of the original in accordance with the acquired read setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Natsuki Kato, Daijiro Miyamoto, Makiya Tamura
  • Publication number: 20160004713
    Abstract: A method for controlling an information processing apparatus includes specifying a folder for storing a file among a plurality of folders, displaying character string candidates for setting a file name of a file based on a folder path of the specified folder, selecting a character string from a plurality of displayed character strings, and setting the selected character string as the file name of the file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Daijiro Miyamoto, Makiya Tamura, Natsuki Kato
  • Patent number: 9225873
    Abstract: A multifunction peripheral (MFP) for displaying a screen including a list of a part of folders included in a plurality of folders determines to, based on a file stored in a same folder as a folder storing the plurality of folders, display index keys for enabling display of folders corresponding to a specified character out of the plurality of folders (S1002), and displays a screen including the index keys on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makiya Tamura
  • Patent number: 9091992
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, in a case where a print setting for printing an image on a preprinted surface of a preprinted sheet has been set and a surface of the sheet read by a reading unit is a preprinted surface, executes printing on the sheet. The image forming apparatus, in a case where a print setting for printing an image on an unprinted surface of a preprinted sheet has been set and a surface of the sheet read by the reading unit is not a preprinted surface, executes printing on the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makiya Tamura, Daijiro Miyamoto, Megumi Saito, Tadanori Nakatsuka, Naoya Kakutani
  • Patent number: 9094620
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that can transmit an image outputted after the execution of a workflow as well as an attribute information file including attribute information suitable for an external system as a transmission destination to the external system. An attribute information management unit manages attributes required by the external system when the image data is transmitted to the external system. A workflow execution unit executes a workflow as a sequential processing in which a plurality of functions of the image processing apparatus are combined. An attribute value setting unit sets attribute values for the attributes required by the external system when the communication unit transmits the image data to the external system. An external system interconnection unit causes the communication unit to transmit the image data output from the workflow execution unit to the external system with reference to the attribute values set by the attribute value setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makiya Tamura
  • Publication number: 20150138577
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that can transmit an image outputted after the execution of a workflow as well as an attribute information file including attribute information suitable for an external system as a transmission destination to the external system. An attribute information management unit manages attributes required by the external system when the image data is transmitted to the external system. A workflow execution unit executes a workflow as a sequential processing in which a plurality of functions of the image processing apparatus are combined. An attribute value setting unit sets attribute values for the attributes required by the external system when the communication unit transmits the image data to the external system. An external system interconnection unit causes the communication unit to transmit the image data output from the workflow execution unit to the external system with reference to the attribute values set by the attribute value setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventor: Makiya TAMURA
  • Patent number: 9016688
    Abstract: A system comprises a conveying unit configured to convey an original, a reading unit configured to read the original that is being conveyed by the conveying unit, a printing unit configured to print an image on a paper based on an image of the original read by the reading unit, a determination unit configured to determine an orientation of the original according to the image obtained by reading the original with the reading unit, and a deciding unit configured to decide an orientation of an image that is to be printed on the original, according to the orientation of the original determined by the determination unit, wherein the printing unit prints the image on the original, in the orientation of the image decided by the deciding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daijiro Miyamoto, Makiya Tamura
  • Publication number: 20150086122
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing system for performing image processing on input image. The image processing system includes an input data determination unit configured to determine a device that has input image data that is input, an image processing unit configured to selectively perform image processing on the input image data based on the determination result by the input data determination unit, an image classification unit configured to classify input image data, and a redirect URL determination unit configured to determine a URL at the time of the next access by a user in accordance with the result of classification by the image classification unit. The image data on which the selective image processing is performed is subjected to processing in accordance with instructions from a display screen of the URL destination and the result of the processing is saved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: Makiya Tamura
  • Publication number: 20150077802
    Abstract: A multifunction peripheral (MFP) for displaying a screen including a list of a part of folders included in a plurality of folders determines to, based on a file stored in a same folder as a folder storing the plurality of folders, display index keys for enabling display of folders corresponding to a specified character out of the plurality of folders (S1002), and displays a screen including the index keys on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Makiya Tamura
  • Patent number: 8970901
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that can transmit an image outputted after the execution of a workflow as well as an attribute information file including attribute information suitable for an external system as a transmission destination to the external system. An attribute information management unit manages attributes required by the external system when the image data is transmitted to the external system. A workflow execution unit executes a workflow as a sequential processing in which a plurality of functions of the image processing apparatus are combined. An attribute value setting unit sets attribute values for the attributes required by the external system when the communication unit transmits the image data to the external system. An external system interconnection unit causes the communication unit to transmit the image data output from the workflow execution unit to the external system with reference to the attribute values set by the attribute value setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makiya Tamura
  • Patent number: 8879077
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus communicable with a server via a network and a control method for the image processing apparatus. A comment including a request to transmit image data to a particular user is monitored, and upon detection of registration of a comment, authentication data of the image processing apparatus, necessary to transmit the image data to the server, is obtained. The image data is transmitted to the server using the obtained authentication data, and setting is made for sharing with the particular user with respect to the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makiya Tamura
  • Patent number: 8879108
    Abstract: A method for controlling a document processing apparatus which registers input document data in a document management server includes acquiring, from the document management server, information about input items necessary for registration of the document data into the document management server, determining whether each of the input items necessary for the registration of the document data are input, based on the acquired information, and performing control to complete the registration of the document data into the document management server when it is determined that the input items are input, while to temporarily register the document data into the document management server when it is determined that at least one of the input items is not input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makiya Tamura
  • Publication number: 20140293362
    Abstract: An image processing system includes a storage unit configured to store an address book to be used to set a transmission destination of image data, a reception unit configured to receive image data, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a name registered in the address book in association with transmission source information of the image data received by the reception unit, a setting unit configured to set a filename using the name acquired by the acquisition unit to the image data received by the reception unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data to which the filename is set by the setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuuhei Kawakami, Ryuta Mori, Makiya Tamura, Natsuki Kato, Fumitoshi Ito, Daijiro Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20140293361
    Abstract: An image processing system includes a memory unit configured to store an address book to be used for setting a transmission destination of image data, a receiving unit configured to receive the image data, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a name that is registered in the address book in association with information of a transmission source of the image data received by the receiving unit, a setting unit configured to set a folder path for a plurality of hierarchies which includes a folder with the name acquired by the acquisition unit, and a storage unit configured to store the image data received by the receiving unit in a folder indicated by the folder path that is set by the setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuta Mori, Fumitoshi Ito, Daijiro Miyamoto, Makiya Tamura, Natsuki Kato, Shuuhei Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20140164939
    Abstract: In a case where a user needs to perform an operation on a web browser in order to operate an application, the user has to switch between the application and the web browser. The present invention enables an information processing apparatus to perform screen switching from the application to the web browser and from the web browser to the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makiya Tamura
  • Patent number: 8625139
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of individual processing units respectively corresponding to a plurality of services that cooperate with the image forming apparatus via a network and configured to communicate with the services and perform individual processing corresponding to the services, a specifying unit configured to specify an individual processing unit corresponding to the service selected out of the plurality of services in response to a user operation from the plurality of individual processing units, and a generation unit serving as a module commonly used among the plurality of individual processing units and configured to generate screen information corresponding to the individual processing unit specified by the specifying unit based on the information managed by the individual processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makiya Tamura
  • Publication number: 20130294795
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, in a case where a print setting for printing an image on a preprinted surface of a preprinted sheet has been set and a surface of the sheet read by a reading unit is a preprinted surface, executes printing on the sheet. The image forming apparatus, in a case where a print setting for printing an image on an unprinted surface of a preprinted sheet has been set and a surface of the sheet read by the reading unit is not a preprinted surface, executes printing on the sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makiya Tamura, Daijiro Miyamoto, Megumi Saito, Tadanori Nakatsuka, Naoya Kakutani
  • Publication number: 20130293916
    Abstract: To provide a mechanism in which a browser appropriately notifies a user of a change in the state without waiting for an instruction from a server and displays an appropriate operation screen upon reception of the instruction from the server in an information processing apparatus executing a process based on a request from the server. Upon detection of a change in the state, a service provider 340 notifies a Web browser 330 of the state and content information corresponding to the state. The Web browser 330 displays a screen in accordance with the content information included in the notification of the change in the state from the service provider 340. In addition, the Web browser 330 accesses an URL in accordance with an instruction from a Web server 102 to acquire an appropriate operation screen and displays the operation screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventor: Makiya Tamura
  • Publication number: 20130292898
    Abstract: A system comprises a conveying unit configured to convey an original; a reading unit configured to read the original that is being conveyed by the conveying unit; a printing unit configured to print an image on a paper based on an image of the original read by the reading unit; a determination unit configured to determine an orientation of the original according to the image obtained by reading the original with the reading unit; and a deciding unit configured to decide an orientation of an image that is to be printed on the original, according to the orientation of the original determined by the determination unit; wherein the printing unit prints the image on the original, in the orientation of the image decided by the deciding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daijiro Miyamoto, Makiya Tamura
  • Patent number: 8533262
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus which is connected to a Web server and includes a Web browser for displaying an operation screen provided by the Web server: a request is transmitted to the Web server on the basis of a user operation performed through the operation screen displayed on the Web browser; if it is requested by the Web server to perform a process on the basis of the transmitted request, the requested process is performed; if the process requested by the Web server is being performed, the transmitted request is not invalidated; and, if the process requested by the Web server is not performed, the transmitted request is invalidated according to that there is no response from the Web server and a predetermined time out period elapses after the transmission of the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makiya Tamura