Patents by Inventor Masao Maeda

Masao Maeda 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: 12166931
    Abstract: A print apparatus registers information of the print apparatus in a server via an external access point based on an instruction provided via an operation screen of the print apparatus, obtains print data when an audio control device receives a print instruction by audio so that the server generates the print data, and executes a print process based on the obtained print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Maeda, Ryohei Saito
  • Patent number: 12093584
    Abstract: If a password set in a printer is changed by an operation performed from an external apparatus such as a smartphone via a remote user interface (UI), the printer changes the password set in the printer on the condition that a predetermined user operation is performed on an operation panel of the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masao Maeda
  • Publication number: 20230401022
    Abstract: If a password set in a printer is changed by an operation performed from an external apparatus such as a smartphone via a remote user interface (UI), the printer changes the password set in the printer on the condition that a predetermined user operation is performed on an operation panel of the printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventor: MASAO MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20230389090
    Abstract: A communication apparatus is provided that is configured to perform an operation in a first mode in which the communication apparatus operates as a child station, and an operation in a second mode in which the communication apparatus operates as a parent station. The communication apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform control in such a manner that a channel which the communication apparatus uses in the second mode is not used in search while the communication apparatus is operating in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: SHINICHI ICHIMURA, MASAO MAEDA, NAOKI AOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230335295
    Abstract: Provided are a management device, a therapeutic inhaler, and a non-transitory storage medium storing a management program that can appropriately manage a history of treatment using the therapeutic inhaler. A server control unit of a management server acquires operation history information of a nebulization unit of a nebulizer including first operation history information and second operation history information acquired subsequently to the first operation history information, and determines whether the first operation history information and the second operation history information are information corresponding to a case where the nebulization unit has operated for an identical treatment based on a time difference T between an ending time point of a first operation period of the nebulization unit according to the first operation history information and a starting time point of a second operation period of the nebulization unit according to the second operation history information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Asa HIRASAWA, Kengo NISHIYAMA, Yuka TANABE, Masao MAEDA, Miyuki ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20230308562
    Abstract: A print apparatus registers information of the print apparatus in a server via an external access point based on an instruction provided via an operation screen of the print apparatus, obtains print data when an audio control device receives a print instruction by audio so that the server generates the print data, and executes a print process based on the obtained print data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Masao Maeda, Ryohei Saito
  • Patent number: 11752279
    Abstract: An ultrasonic vibrator driving apparatus performs driving by applying an alternating voltage as a drive voltage to an ultrasonic vibrator that includes a piezoelectric element and has a unique resonance frequency. The drive voltage is generated with a variable frequency in a frequency range including the resonance frequency of the ultrasonic vibrator. The frequency of the drive voltage is repeatedly swept with a predetermined sweep width and a predetermined sweep period so as to include the resonance frequency, based on a reference frequency set according to the resonance frequency of the ultrasonic vibrator. The sweep period and the sweep width are restricted by being associated so as to fall within a predetermined allowed range on a two-dimensional map divided by the sweep period and the sweep width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masao Maeda, Hidetaka Togo
  • Patent number: 11706359
    Abstract: A print apparatus registers information of the print apparatus in a server via an external access point based on an instruction provided via an operation screen of the print apparatus, obtains print data when an audio control device receives a print instruction by audio so that the server generates the print data, and executes a print process based on the obtained print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Maeda, Ryohei Saito
  • Publication number: 20230145814
    Abstract: A multifunction peripheral comprises a reading unit configured to read a filled-in answer sheet on which an answer has been filled in, a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to a server, data related to the filled-in answer sheet read by the reading unit, a receiving unit configured to receive, from a server, data related to a correctness of the answer that has been filled in on the filled-in answer sheet and a printing unit configured to execute, based on the data related to the correctness of the answer that has been received by the receiving unit, first print processing for printing a scoring result of the answer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventor: Masao Maeda
  • Patent number: 11446945
    Abstract: According to the present invention, provided is a system comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire log information of a job executed on a device; and a learning unit configured to perform learning for generating, by using the log information of the device acquired by the acquisition unit as learning data, a learned model to be used by the device to estimate necessity of executing a maintenance operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masao Maeda
  • Publication number: 20220272217
    Abstract: A print apparatus registers information of the print apparatus in a server via an external access point based on an instruction provided via an operation screen of the print apparatus, obtains print data when an audio control device receives a print instruction by audio so that the server generates the print data, and executes a print process based on the obtained print data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Masao Maeda, Ryohei Saito
  • Patent number: 11301188
    Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus capable of printing a plurality of additional information without non-uniformity in a case where a plurality of images and the plurality of additional information corresponding to the respective images are arranged and printed on the same print medium, an information processing apparatus prepares a template in which image arrangement frames for arranging the plurality of images individually and an additional information arrangement frame for arranging the plurality of additional information together are laid out. The information processing apparatus arranges the plurality of images in the respective image arrangement frames and arranges the plurality of additional information in the additional information arrangement frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Watanabe, Masao Maeda, Hirokazu Ishii, Yoshihiro Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 11283947
    Abstract: A print apparatus registers information of the print apparatus in a server via an external access point based on an instruction provided via an operation screen of the print apparatus, obtains print data when an audio control device receives a print instruction by audio so that the server generates the print data, and executes a print process based on the obtained print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Maeda, Ryohei Saito
  • Patent number: 11146710
    Abstract: To make it possible to specify a color space of image data even in a case where color space identification information is not attached to the image data. The image processing system that handles image data whose color spaces are different comprises a learning unit configured to perform machine learning by taking image data and metadata thereof as input data and color space identification information as supervised data. In the machine learning, a learning model is optimized so that a deviation between the color space predicted from the input data and the color space specified by the color space identification information becomes a minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masao Maeda
  • Patent number: 11097072
    Abstract: With a nebulizer mesh selection method it is possible to achieve optimal treatment which fits a medicine and a patient. A nebulizer mesh selection method includes a step of acquiring a medicine attribute, by a computer, a step of acquiring a patient breathing ability, a step of selecting a mesh that corresponds to the acquired medicine attribute and patient breathing ability based on a mesh selection table in which a predetermined mesh corresponds to a combination of a medicine attribute and a patient breathing ability, and a step of outputting the selected mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Tabata, Takao Terada, Kei Asai, Masao Maeda, Yusuke Kato
  • Publication number: 20210170772
    Abstract: According to the present invention, provided is a system comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire log information of a job executed on a device; and a learning unit configured to perform learning for generating, by using the log information of the device acquired by the acquisition unit as learning data, a learned model to be used by the device to estimate necessity of executing a maintenance operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventor: Masao Maeda
  • Publication number: 20210132880
    Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus capable of printing a plurality of additional information without non-uniformity in a case where a plurality of images and the plurality of additional information corresponding to the respective images are arranged and printed on the same print medium, an information processing apparatus prepares a template in which image arrangement frames for arranging the plurality of images individually and an additional information arrangement frame for arranging the plurality of additional information together are laid out. The information processing apparatus arranges the plurality of images in the respective image arrangement frames and arranges the plurality of additional information in the additional information arrangement frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Watanabe, Masao Maeda, Hirokazu Ishii, Yoshihiro Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 10916247
    Abstract: It is determined whether a first voice instruction received by a first voice control device and a second voice instruction received by a second voice control device are repetitive instructions. Output by an output apparatus is restricted if it is determined that the first voice instruction and the second voice instruction are repetitive instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Maeda, Ayumi Kabata
  • Publication number: 20200412912
    Abstract: To make it possible to specify a color space of image data even in a case where color space identification information is not attached to the image data. The image processing system that handles image data whose color spaces are different comprises a learning unit configured to perform machine learning by taking image data and metadata thereof as input data and color space identification information as supervised data. In the machine learning, a learning model is optimized so that a deviation between the color space predicted from the input data and the color space specified by the color space identification information becomes a minimum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventor: Masao Maeda
  • Patent number: 10799902
    Abstract: An ultrasonic nebulizer includes a tank unit configured to be detachable with respect to a main body. The tank unit includes a working tank in which an ultrasonic vibrator is incorporated, a medicine tank, and a medicine tank cover, which are arranged overlaid in the stated order. The output of an oscillation circuit in the main body is applied to the ultrasonic vibrator through a main body-side contact electrode and a tank-side contact electrode when the tank unit is mounted on the main body. The main body includes an air fan that blows air into the medicine tank through an air duct of the medicine tank cover, and a medicine tank cover detection unit that detects whether or not the air duct of the medicine tank cover is adjacent to the main body so as to detect whether or not the tank unit is mounted on the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masao Maeda, Takaaki Okanishi, Makoto Tabata