Patents by Inventor Makoto Mihara

Makoto Mihara 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: 20130254672
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention transmits first processing request data in accordance with the content of a user instruction through an operation screen displayed on a Web browser to a Web server, receives a request based on the first processing request data from the Web server, and executes processing in accordance with the received response data. Moreover, before completion of the execution of the processing, the information processing apparatus transmits second processing request data to the Web server at the timing specified by the Web server, and displays an operation screen indicating the state of the processing according to response data received from the Web server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventor: Makoto Mihara
  • Patent number: 8498004
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store information about an other image processing apparatus different than the image processing apparatus that operates with the image processing apparatus, an acquiring unit configured to acquire function information indicating a function provided by a first image processing apparatus, and a control unit. In the control unit, in a case that a comparison result of the comparing unit indicates that the first image processing apparatus includes at least one function not provided by the image processing apparatus, information about the first image processing apparatus is stored in the storage unit, and in a case that a comparison result of the comparing unit indicates that the first image processing apparatus doesn't include at least one function not provided by the image processing apparatus, information about the first image processing apparatus is not stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Mihara
  • Patent number: 8478839
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention transmits first processing request data in accordance with the content of a user instruction through an operation screen displayed on a Web browser to a Web server, receives a request based on the first processing request data from the Web server, and executes processing in accordance with the received response data. Moreover, before completion of the execution of the processing, the information processing apparatus transmits second processing request data to the Web server at the timing specified by the Web server, and displays an operation screen indicating the state of the processing according to response data received from the Web server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Mihara
  • Patent number: 8420991
    Abstract: A microwave heating apparatus includes a microwave generation part (5) having a plurality of output parts, a heating chamber (4) to contain an object to be heated, a plurality of feeding parts (21a, 21b, 21c, 21d) supplying outputs of the plurality of output parts to the heating chamber, and a control part (6) controlling microwave radiation from the plurality of feeding parts to control an electromagnetic wave distribution in the heating chamber, in which a microwave is concentrated on the object to be heated put in the heating chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Mihara, Tomotaka Nobue, Kenji Yasui, Yoshiharu Oomori
  • Publication number: 20130008896
    Abstract: A microwave heating apparatus includes, within a heating room, a placement table having a horizontal placement surface for placing an object to be heated, and a plurality of feeding portions which are placed on a wall surface of the heating room for supplying microwave electric power to the heating room. The microwave heating apparatus is adapted to relatively move the position of the straight line connecting two feeding portions to each other, with respect to the object to be heated, through a movement mechanism portion, and to detect a phase difference between the microwave electric powers which minimizes reflected electric power returning from the heating room to the two feeding portions, for detecting the state of placement of the object to be heated on the placement table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Oomori, Tomotaka Nobue, Kenji Yasui, Makoto Mihara
  • Publication number: 20120317621
    Abstract: A screen to be presented to a customer administrator is generated according to the license status. Also, as a license status, a processing progress status is provided in which the customer administrator is prohibited to perform operations during asynchronous license status change processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Mihara
  • Publication number: 20120236359
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a management unit, a printer information acquisition unit, a status acquisition unit, a creation unit, and a transmission unit. The management unit manages printer information of a plurality of printers. The printer information acquisition unit acquires, from the managed printer information, printer information corresponding to a login request accepted from a client terminal. The status acquisition unit acquires statuses of printers indicated by the printer information acquired by the acquisition unit. The creation unit creates, based on the printer information acquired by the printer information acquisition unit and the statuses acquired by the status acquisition unit, a screen which can discriminate printers capable of printing at the client terminal. The transmission unit transmits the screen created by the creation unit to the client terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Mihara
  • Patent number: 8255797
    Abstract: There is disclosed, as an example, an output information generation method in an information processor capable of synthesizing multiple data in insertion areas defined in form information to generate output information, the method comprising: a registration step of registering multiple data with priorities and multiple form information having form information corresponding to the respective priorities in a storage unit; a direction step of directing generation of output information by specifying any of the multiple data and any of the form information stored in the storage unit and directing generation of output information; and a generation step of selecting form information corresponding to the priority of each of the data specified by the direction step and synthesizing the multiple data into the insertion areas in the selected form information to generate output information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Mihara
  • Publication number: 20120160844
    Abstract: In order to provide a microwave heating device which includes radiation portions having a function of radiating microwaves forming both linearly polarized waves and circularly polarized waves and, further, having an electric-power synthesizing function, thereby offering new radiation functions. A heating chamber for housing a to-be-heated object therein is provided with plural radiation portions on a bottom wall surface thereof, and each of the radiation portions is provided with plural microwave feeding points, such that phase control and driving control are performed for each microwave feeding point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomotaka Nobue, Yoshiharu Oomori, Kenji Yasui, Makoto Mihara
  • Publication number: 20120152940
    Abstract: In a microwave heating device, a control portion performs an operation for alternately repeating a sweeping operation for detecting reflected electric power with an electric-power detection portion while changing an oscillation frequency of an oscillation portion and fixing a phase value of a phase variable portion for detecting a reflected-electric-power characteristic with respect to the oscillation portion, and a sweeping operation for detecting reflected electric power with the electric-power detection portion while changing the phase value of the phase variable portion and fixing the oscillation frequency of the oscillation portion for detecting a reflected-electric-power characteristic with respect to the phase value, in order to determine an oscillation frequency and a phase value for use in heating a to-be-heated object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Oomori, Tomotaka Nobue, Kenji Yasui, Makoto Mihara
  • Publication number: 20120152939
    Abstract: A microwave heating device according to the present invention includes a microwave oscillation portion including a reference-signal oscillator formed from a quarts oscillator, phase variable portions and phase-locked loops and, further, includes a control portion for controlling the microwave oscillation portion, and plural radiation portions placed on a wall surface of a heating chamber for housing a to-be-heated object, wherein microwaves supplied to plural microwave feeding points provided in the radiation portions are controlled in phase and electric power, thereby controlling the aspect of radiations of microwaves radiated from the radiation portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomotaka Nobue, Yoshiharu Oomori, Kenji Yasui, Makoto Mihara
  • Publication number: 20120111856
    Abstract: In order to provide a microwave heating device and a microwave heating control method which are capable of uniformly heating a to-be-heated object in a desired state, by employing plural feeding portions provided in a heating chamber on the basis of information about reflected electric power from the respective feeding portions; a control portion controls to supply microwave electric power from plural feeding portions to a heating chamber by operating a microwave generating portion at a heating frequency for heating a to-be-heated object, estimates a heating state for the to-be-heated object on the basis of per-unit-time increase/decrease change states of detected levels of detection signals detected by electric-power detection portions, and controls the heating frequency and the microwave electric power supplied from the feeding portions to the heating chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomotaka Nobue, Yoshiharu Oomori, Kenji Yasui, Makoto Mihara
  • Publication number: 20120067873
    Abstract: In order to provide a microwave heating device and a microwave heating method, which can surely prevent a microwave generating part from being destroyed by reflected power and which can heat a heating-target portion in a heating chamber with high efficiency, the present invention is configured such that, prior to a control part (1), which receives a reflected power signal and a supply power signal from a power detecting part (4), starting a heating operation to an object (15) to be heated in a heating chamber (7), the control part (1) executes a frequency sweep operation of a prescribed frequency band with frequency sweep power lower than rated supply power supplied to a power feeding part (5) during the heating operation, to thereby set an oscillation frequency at which the minimum reflected power becomes minimum, and to control an oscillation frequency of an oscillator part (2) and an output of a power amplifier part (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Mihara, Kenji Yasui, Tomotaka Nobue, Yoshiharu Oomori
  • Publication number: 20110261398
    Abstract: With an information processing apparatus, if a user operates a “back” button of a web browser while a job is being executed, a script for controlling the job currently being executed is lost, and the job can no longer be controlled. An information processing apparatus of the present invention can communicate with a web server, and includes a web browser that displays an operation screen provided by the web server. This information processing apparatus manages the status of a job to be executed, and restricts acceptance of an instruction for screen transition from the user according to the managed status of the job while the job instructed by the web server is being executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Mihara, Nobuaki Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20110246602
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention transmits first processing request data in accordance with the content of a user instruction through an operation screen displayed on a Web browser to a Web server, receives a request based on the first processing request data from the Web server, and executes processing in accordance with the received response data. Moreover, before completion of the execution of the processing, the information processing apparatus transmits second processing request data to the Web server at the timing specified by the Web server, and displays an operation screen indicating the state of the processing according to response data received from the Web server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Mihara
  • Publication number: 20110205585
    Abstract: An image processing system including a service platform configured to manage a job related to image processing according to a processing request received via a request receiving program in a distributed environment and one or more computers configured to cause a back-end processing program to process the job, including an execution unit configured to execute a task defined in the job acquired by the acquisition unit under control of the back-end processing program, and a recording unit configured to record information which is a result of processing the task executed by the execution unit and is used to maintain consistency of the image processing system into an area which is protected against writing by the task and managed by the service platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Mihara, Takeshi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20110205586
    Abstract: A cloud computing system includes an input data storage unit, a data input unit, an output data storage unit, and a data extraction unit. When an execution instruction is externally input, the cloud computing system reads data from the input data storage unit and processes the read data. Then, the cloud computing system stores a result of processing of the data on the output data storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Takahashi, Makoto Mihara
  • Publication number: 20110168699
    Abstract: In a microwave heating apparatus of the invention, microwaves from oscillation parts 1a, 1b are divided into a plurality of microwaves by power division parts 2a, 2b and inputted to amplification parts 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, and desired microwave powers from the amplification parts are supplied from feeding parts 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d to a heating chamber 8. Reflected powers reflected from the heating chamber to the amplification parts via the feeding parts are detected by power detection parts 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d. Each of the feeding parts has a plurality of antennas for supplying the microwaves having different characteristics to the heating chamber, and a control part 7 extracts an oscillating frequency with which the reflected powers detected by the power detection parts are minimum, and causes the oscillation parts to oscillate at the extracted oscillating frequency so as to supply the microwaves having the different characteristics from the plurality of antennas to the heating chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Oomori, Tomotaka Nobue, Kenji Yasui, Makoto Mihara
  • Publication number: 20110108548
    Abstract: A microwave heating apparatus includes a microwave generation part 10 using a semiconductor element, and first and second heating chambers 100a, 100b to each of which a microwave generated in the microwave generation part is fed. A reflected microwave returned from at least one of the first and second heating chambers 100a, 100b to the microwave generation part is transmitted to the other heating chamber by a circulation type non-reciprocal circuit 118, so that generated power of the microwave generation part is substantially completely consumed upon heating of an article to be heated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Tomotaka Nobue, Kenji Yasui, Yoshiharu Oomori, Makoto Mihara
  • Publication number: 20110035785
    Abstract: This invention provides an information processing system which allows an application on a Web server to execute authentication processing of a user in an information processing apparatus and a control method thereof. To accomplish this, in an information processing system of this invention, a Web application of a Web server requests a service provider of an MFP to execute authentication processing. The service provider instructs a login application to execute an authentication function, and transmits generated authentication information to the Web application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Mihara