Patents by Inventor Masahiro Mutsuno

Masahiro Mutsuno 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: 20190286044
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus configured to: determine, when simplex printing is set in print settings, whether a mode set in attribute information associated with a sheet type in the print job is a first mode or a second mode; control, when the mode is the first mode, an image forming portion to form an image on a first side of a sheet conveyed from a feeding unit to a conveying path, and discharge the sheet to a discharge portion without passing the sheet through a re-conveying path; and control, when the mode is the second mode, the image forming portion to avoid forming an image on the first side, control a reverse portion to reverse the sheet, control the image forming portion to form an image on a second side of the sheet conveyed through the re-conveying path, and discharge the sheet to the discharge portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Sho Saito, Masahiro Mutsuno
  • Publication number: 20190187940
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an accepting unit configured to accept one of a first setting and a second setting, the first setting indicating that another print job managed by the management unit is to be executed while leaving an execution of the print job interrupted, and the second setting indicating that execution of the print job is to be canceled, and a control unit configured to, when the first setting is made in a case where a job interruption event occurs during execution of a print job, execute another print job managed by the management unit while leaving the execution of the print job interrupted, or to, when the second setting is made in a case where a job interruption event occurs during execution of a print job, cancel the execution of the print job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventor: Masahiro Mutsuno
  • Patent number: 10294063
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a stapler that executes a stapling process on sheets set in a sheet insertion opening by a user, and a sheet detecting sensor that detects the sheets set in the sheet insertion opening. The sheet processing apparatus displays a setting screen for setting a time until the staple process is executed, and causes the stapler to execute the stapling process according to elapse of the set time after the sheet detecting sensor detects the sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Mutsuno, Masaki Kashiwagi, Akinori Takeo, Satoshi Totsuka
  • Patent number: 10255008
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an accepting unit configured to accept one of a first setting and a second setting, the first setting indicating that another print job managed by the management unit is to be executed while leaving an execution of the print job interrupted, and the second setting indicating that execution of the print job is to be canceled, and a control unit configured to, when the first setting is made in a case where a job interruption event occurs during execution of a print job, execute another print job managed by the management unit while leaving the execution of the print job interrupted, or to, when the second setting is made in a case where a job interruption event occurs during execution of a print job, cancel the execution of the print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Mutsuno
  • Publication number: 20180213102
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printing apparatus that prints an image on a sheet, a sheet processer that executes sheet processing, and a sheet detection sensor that detects a sheet on which the sheet processing is performed not in association with the printing of an image, where the printing of an image is restricted in response to detection of a sheet by the sheet detection sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Masahiro Mutsuno, Masaki Kashiwagi, Akinori Takeo, Satoshi Totsuka
  • Publication number: 20180196626
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an accepting unit configured to accept one of a first setting and a second setting, the first setting indicating that another print job managed by the management unit is to be executed while leaving an execution of the print job interrupted, and the second setting indicating that execution of the print job is to be canceled, and a control unit configured to, when the first setting is made in a case where a job interruption event occurs during execution of a print job, execute another print job managed by the management unit while leaving the execution of the print job interrupted, or to, when the second setting is made in a case where a job interruption event occurs during execution of a print job, cancel the execution of the print job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventor: Masahiro Mutsuno
  • Patent number: 9955030
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printing apparatus that prints an image on a sheet, a sheet processer that executes sheet processing, and a sheet detection sensor that detects a sheet on which the sheet processing is performed not in association with the printing of an image, where the printing of an image is restricted in response to detection of a sheet by the sheet detection sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Mutsuno, Masaki Kashiwagi, Akinori Takeo, Satoshi Totsuka
  • Patent number: 9940076
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an accepting unit configured to accept one of a first setting and a second setting, the first setting indicating that another print job managed by the management unit is to be executed while leaving an execution of the print job interrupted, and the second setting indicating that execution of the print job is to be canceled, and a control unit configured to, when the first setting is made in a case where a job interruption event occurs during execution of a print job, execute another print job managed by the management unit while leaving the execution of the print job interrupted, or to, when the second setting is made in a case where a job interruption event occurs during execution of a print job, cancel the execution of the print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Mutsuno
  • Publication number: 20180084153
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit, a storage unit, a login state determination unit, and a control unit. The receiving unit receives a facsimile-received document via a network. The storage unit stores the facsimile-received document received by the receiving unit in a reception box. The login state determination unit determines whether a user to be charged is logged in, a user who does not need to be charged is logged in, or no user is logged in. The control unit controls the storage unit to store the facsimile-received document in the reception box instead of outputting the facsimile-received document when the receiving unit receives the facsimile-received document and if the login state determination unit determines that no user is logged in or a user to be charged is logged in.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Satoshi Totsuka, Akinori Takeo, Masahiro Mutsuno
  • Patent number: 9908726
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to provide a job processing method for a convenient printing system applicable not only to the office environment but also to the POD environment, a storage medium, a program, a printing system, and a printing apparatus. To accomplish this, according to a job processing method for a printing system in which print media detected by a multi feed detection unit for detecting occurrence of multi feed of overlapping print media can be used as print media necessary for a job to be processed by a printing apparatus, when multi feed occurs, the printing system can execute a recovery operation for an unprinted job without outputting multi-fed print media to a print medium discharge destination necessary for the unprinted job in the printing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Mutsuno
  • Patent number: 9856105
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus including a stapler for executing a stapling process, a sheet detection sensor for detecting a sheet as a processing target, and an execution button for receiving from a user an execution instruction to execute the stapling process, after the sheet detection sensor detects a sheet, in a case where the execution button is pressed before a predetermined time elapses, causes the stapler to execute the stapling process according to the execution button being pressed, and in a case where the execution button is not pressed, causes the stapler to execute the stapling process according to lapse of the predetermined time. Further, the sheet processing apparatus sets whether the execution of the stapling process according to the lapse of the predetermined time is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Mutsuno, Masaki Kashiwagi, Satoshi Totsuka, Akinori Takeo
  • Patent number: 9821583
    Abstract: A technique by which when printing is initiated, printed sheets remaining in a large-volume stacker and sheets printed in a subsequent job are not mixed in the large-volume stacker is provided. A printing system in which a printing apparatus and a post-processing apparatus for receiving a sheet printed by the printing apparatus and performing post-processing are connected, upon activation of the printing system, when detecting that a sheet is stacked in the post-processing apparatus, instructs the processing apparatus to discharge the remaining sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Mutsuno
  • Publication number: 20170090829
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an accepting unit configured to accept one of a first setting and a second setting, the first setting indicating that another print job managed by the management unit is to be executed while leaving an execution of the print job interrupted, and the second setting indicating that execution of the print job is to be canceled, and a control unit configured to, when the first setting is made in a case where a job interruption event occurs during execution of a print job, execute another print job managed by the management unit while leaving the execution of the print job interrupted, or to, when the second setting is made in a case where a job interruption event occurs during execution of a print job, cancel the execution of the print job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventor: Masahiro Mutsuno
  • Patent number: 9602682
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, in a case where in a remote control instruction received from an information processing apparatus that controls a maintenance, a screen to be displayed next is a restricted screen, if a predetermined input is not accepted from a user of the image forming apparatus, does not display the restricted screen to the operation unit, and if the predetermined input is accepted, does display the restricted screen to the operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Mutsuno
  • Patent number: 9432530
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, upon a restart, does not activate, if an accepted restart instruction is not an instruction by a remote control accepted from an information processing apparatus, an application for remotely controlling the image forming apparatus from the information processing apparatus, and, upon a restart, does activate, if the restart instruction is an instruction by the remote control, the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Mutsuno
  • Patent number: 9395942
    Abstract: A printing apparatus selects, based on a number of successive double-sided printing pages following the single-sided printing page, a first print control in which printing of a page which is included in double-sided printing pages and to be printed on a first surface of a sheet and printing of a page which is included in the double-sided printing pages and to be printed on a second surface of the sheet are performed after printing of a single-sided printing page, or a second print control in which printing of the page which is to be printed on the first surface of the sheet is performed before printing of the single-sided printing page and printing of the page which is to be printed on the second surface of the sheet is performed after printing of the single-sided printing page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Mutsuno
  • Patent number: 9388011
    Abstract: A sheet processing method in a printing system constituted by a sheet processing apparatus including a plurality of paper discharge trays having different sheet stacking capacities, to any of whose paper discharge trays a printed sheet is discharged, and a printing apparatus includes setting which of the paper discharge trays is used first for discharging the sheet, specifying the number of remaining pages of sheets to be discharged by a job to be executed, and executing control for discharging the sheets starting from a paper discharge tray different from the set paper discharge tray according to the specified number of remaining pages and a restriction on a stacking amount on each paper discharge tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Mutsuno
  • Publication number: 20160185563
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a stapler that executes a stapling process on sheets set in a sheet insertion opening by a user, and a sheet detecting sensor that detects the sheets set in the sheet insertion opening. The sheet processing apparatus displays a setting screen for setting a time until the staple process is executed, and causes the stapler to execute the stapling process according to elapse of the set time after the sheet detecting sensor detects the sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Masahiro Mutsuno, Masaki Kashiwagi, Akinori Takeo, Satoshi Totsuka
  • Publication number: 20160185560
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus including a stapler for executing a stapling process, a sheet detection sensor for detecting a sheet as a processing target, and an execution button for receiving from a user an execution instruction to execute the stapling process, after the sheet detection sensor detects a sheet, in a case where the execution button is pressed before a predetermined time elapses, causes the stapler to execute the stapling process according to the execution button being pressed, and in a case where the execution button is not pressed, causes the stapler to execute the stapling process according to lapse of the predetermined time. Further, the sheet processing apparatus sets whether the execution of the stapling process according to the lapse of the predetermined time is enabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Masahiro Mutsuno, Masaki Kashiwagi, Satoshi Totsuka, Akinori Takeo
  • Publication number: 20160191735
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printing apparatus that prints an image on a sheet, a sheet processer that executes sheet processing, and a sheet detection sensor that detects a sheet on which the sheet processing is performed not in association with the printing of an image, where the printing of an image is restricted in response to detection of a sheet by the sheet detection sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Masahiro Mutsuno, Masaki Kashiwagi, Akinori Takeo, Satoshi Totsuka