Patents by Inventor Masanori Wakai

Masanori Wakai 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: 7209246
    Abstract: An original is read and the information stored as information targeted for processing, with either printing, transmission or holding being the processing for which the stored information is targeted, and the destination of the processing and either the timing or the time duration of the processing being specified, and the specified processing is carried out on the information targeted for processing. Furthermore, a multiple-page original which has been read is stored as multiple-page documents, with either one page being stored as one document, or specified numbers of pages starting from a specified starting page each being stored as one document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Aruna Rohra Suda, Masayuki Takayama, Masanori Wakai, Suresh Jeyachandran
  • Publication number: 20070067355
    Abstract: Operation history information related to operations performed at a plurality of devices and communication history information related to communications performed between the devices are managed. When an operation accompanied with a communication has been performed at the device, a predetermined action corresponding to the operation accompanied with the communication is executed based on the operation history information and the communication history information which are managed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventors: Shigeki Mori, Masanori Wakai
  • Publication number: 20070052685
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an interpretation unit configured to interpret a command written on computerized document data, a creation unit configured to create a graphical user interface (GUI) component used to perform execution of the command interpreted by the interpretation unit, and a display control unit configured to cause a display apparatus to display document data corresponding to target data that represents a target of the execution and to display the created GUI component at a position corresponding to the command written on the document data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2006
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masanori Wakai
  • Patent number: 7187478
    Abstract: A job is selected from a job list, and is either copied or is extracted from a job storage unit. The job, or the copy, is transmitted to a designated destination. A transmission job or a printing job is stored in conjunction with a corresponding execution time in the job storage unit, so that a job can be selected from the job list and the execution time for the selected job can be changed. Further, the jobs stored in the print queue are displayed as a list, and a selected job is moved from the print queue to the job storage unit, so that the printing of the job in the print queue can be performed. In addition, the histories of jobs that were executed are displayed as a list, so that a specific job can be selected and re-executed. Furthermore, a process that is performed is managed for the user who instructed the process. When logout is instructed, management data are examined in order to determine whether there is an unprocessed job that was previously instructed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuichi Mikame, Suresh Jeyachandran, Shouichi Ibaraki, Masayuki Takayama, Aruna Rohra Suda, Masanori Wakai, Naoko Ueda, Kenichi Fuji
  • Publication number: 20070050726
    Abstract: During a drag of a first object in response to a drag operation of the first object selected on a screen, in a case that it is determined that the movement of the first object has stopped for a predetermined time period, the first object is dropped at the stopped location, and a second object displayed at the stopped location is designated as a new drag object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Masanori Wakai, Emiko Kamiyama
  • Publication number: 20070041381
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus for identifying a plurality of communication devices, grouping and managing the identified communication devices, communication devices that are in a state of communication among devices forbidden are grouped and managed. Then, it acts for obtaining data of another communication device when the data is obtained among the communication devices grouped. The data obtaining proxy is performed when a request to obtain data of another communication device is received from a communication device, and data of another communication device is obtained based on the request, and it is sent to a communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masanori Wakai
  • Publication number: 20070040902
    Abstract: Photographs an action performed to an object with an appliance by a photographing device, and records it as video data. When a desired object is specified while the video data is being played back, the object is identified based on information on a position of the object in the appliance and a time the object acted, and operation predetermined against the identified object is enabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masanori Wakai
  • Publication number: 20070041056
    Abstract: Objects processed in a plurality of information processing apparatuses connected over a network to an object operation apparatus are caused to be displayed on screens of a display device of the object operation apparatus in correspondence with the information processing apparatuses. Then, operations on the displayed objects on the screens corresponding to the information processing apparatuses are made controllable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Inventors: Masanori Wakai, Osamu Sakata
  • Publication number: 20070003143
    Abstract: An information processing device which is configured to identify a processing target of an input command. A handwriting input unit interprets handwriting data as a handwriting command. At least part of data corresponding to an input position of the interpreted command is identified as a processing target of the handwriting command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masanori Wakai
  • Patent number: 7138983
    Abstract: A method of detecting and interpreting a path of designated positions is disclosed. The method concurrently detects a plurality of designated positions on a touch panel, again detects the plurality of designated positions subsequent to a travel of the designated positions, determines the distances between each of the current designated positions and the respective immediately preceding designated positions, treats an immediately preceding designated position, closest to the current designated position of interest, as the immediately preceding designated position of the current designated position of interest, and acquires the path of each designated position, thereby recognizing the paths of the plurality of designated positions that move concurrently. A combination of the paths of the plurality of designated positions is interpreted to identify a designation input by a user, and an operation thus designated is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanori Wakai, Satomi Kayano
  • Patent number: 7139718
    Abstract: When a schedule is updated, a check is performed to determine whether matters concerning the updated schedule are included in a To Do List, in which all processes to be performed are registered, and a schedule list. When there is an associated undertaking, added to a task table is a notification task for notifying a user and reminding him of the existence of that undertaking. Then, a notification process for reminding the user of the schedule for the pending undertaking is performed under appropriate conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Suresh Jeyachandran, Shouichi Ibaraki, Masayuki Takayama, Aruna Rohra Suda, Masanori Wakai
  • Patent number: 7126717
    Abstract: An attribute of object information to be processed and a corresponding process are designated, and a command to be executed is set. When the process designated for the object information having the designated attribute is performed, the command that is set is executed. Further, a status that is employed as a process execution condition is designated, and a corresponding process that is to be performed while the status corresponds to that of the designated status is stored with that status. Then, when it is determined that the current status is the designated status, the corresponding process is performed, and thus, each time a specific event occurs, a corresponding process can be performed without an instruction having to be issued. Specifically, a trigger for the issuance of a notification is set, and a time period extending from the time the trigger is tripped until the notification is issued is designated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Suresh Jeyachandran, Masayuki Takayama, Aruna Rohra Suda, Masanori Wakai, Satomi Takahashi, Naoko Ueda
  • Publication number: 20060184550
    Abstract: An application IF layer interprets and processes manipulations of an application program. A database IF layer interprets and processes manipulations common to a plurality of types of databases. Individual database manipulation implementation embedded in the database IF layer executes processes unique to databases for each of the plurality of types of databases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2006
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masanori Wakai
  • Patent number: 6999070
    Abstract: A server machine receives a printing job, including information to be printed, and a first print parameter, and based on that information, sets a second print parameter that is suitable for the information and also alters the first print parameter. A printer prints the received information based on the printing parameters that are set or changed. Further, users who submit information that is received are identified and the printed results are stored at storage locations that differ for each user. In addition, information may be requested from an external device, and the requested information printed when it is received. Furthermore, information that is input may be transmitted to external devices to request that those devices process that information. Moreover, when an output device that is designated by a received output instruction is a locally owned apparatus, the apparatus performs the processing as instructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Suresh Jeyachandran, Shouichi Ibaraki, Masayuki Takayama, Aruna Rohra Suda, Masanori Wakai, Kenichi Fujii
  • Patent number: 6989907
    Abstract: An error status of a printer is acquired, and based on the acquired status, transmission of a response, a content of a response, a response medium, a response addressee and a response timing are determined. When electronic mail is used as a response medium, text representing the response content that is suitable for electronic mail is prepared, and an opening sentence and a closing sentence are added before and after the text, thereby providing response information. A mail header and footer are added to the prepared response information, and the resultant information is transmitted to a host computer using electronic mail. Whether a problem has been resolved as the result of a response, or whether a response is confirmed by an addressee is determined. When a problem has not yet been resolved, or when a response has not been confirmed, a response is retransmitted using another method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Suresh Jeyachandran, Masayuki Takayama, Aruna Rohra Suda, Masanori Wakai
  • Publication number: 20050216440
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method that allows both a schedule and associated process information to be displayed at corresponding time positions in a calendar view form is provided. An indicator indicating type of process performed on each data is displayed such that the indicator is superimposed on an indicator indicating the data. This permits a user to easily and quickly retrieve data based on the schedule and to easily and quickly retrieve data based on the schedule and the process performed. In addition, displaying of both the schedule and data in the same single calendar view form permits the user to easily determine whether there is data associated with the schedule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masanori Wakai
  • Patent number: 6947156
    Abstract: A remote controller for exchanging information using infrared rays requests the direct transmission of a user interface (UI) to a device to be controlled, such as a printer or a facsimile machine, or the indirect transmission through another device that is connected to the device that is to be controlled. When the UI is returned upon receipt of the request, the menu of functions that the device that is to be controlled can execute using the UI is displayed on the screen of the remote controller, and a command to select function that is selected from the menu is transmitted to the device that is to be controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Suresh Jeyachandran, Shouichi Ibaraki, Masayuki Takayama, Aruna Rohra Suda, Masanori Wakai, Shuichi Mikame, Kenichi Fujii, Satomi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6925600
    Abstract: When an information processing apparatus performs the process, it stores hysteresis data itemizing the process type, the apparatus in charge of processing, the person for instructing the process, the process object information and execution time. Then, necessary hysteresis data are searched for by designating the conditions in the items, desired hysteresis data is selected from the hysteresis data that are found, and the same process (re-printing of the same document) or a new process (saving a printed document with a new file name) is performed for the object in the selected hysteresis data. The hysteresis number is provided for the hysteresis data, and a correlation is provided for the process that caused the process represented by the hysteresis data, and the hysteresis number of the process that is caused by the process represented by the hysteresis data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanori Wakai, Masayuki Takayama, Aruna Rohra Suda, Suresh Jeyachandran
  • Publication number: 20050099646
    Abstract: A job is selected from a job list, and is either copied or is extracted from a job storage unit. The job, or the copy, is transmitted to a designated destination. A transmission job or a printing job is stored in conjunction with a corresponding execution time in the job storage unit, so that a job can be selected from the job list and the execution time for the selected job can be changed. Further, the jobs stored in the print queue are displayed as a list, and a selected job is moved from the print queue to the job storage unit, so that the printing of the job in the print queue can be performed. In addition, the histories of jobs that were executed are displayed as a list, so that a specific job can be selected and re-executed. Furthermore, a process that is performed is managed for the user who instructed the process. When logout is instructed, management data are examined in order to determine whether there is an unprocessed job that was previously instructed by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Suresh Jeyachandran, Shouichi Ibaraki, Masayuki Takayama, Aruna Suda, Masanori Wakai, Naoko Ueda
  • Publication number: 20040268252
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, even when a large volume of data is displayed in a limited display area in which the number of data items that can be displayed at once is restricted, rough searching for data and specific identification of data are facilitated. In the information processing apparatus, the number of data items to be displayed is determined. When the number of data items to be displayed is less than or equal to a predetermined number of data items that can be displayed in a display area, the data items are displayed in a first mode. If the number of data items to be displayed is greater than the predetermined number, the data items are displayed in a second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masanori Wakai