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: 8184902
    Abstract: An image combining apparatus and a control method for an image combining apparatus that allows a user to write a handwritten image on a writing sheet while confirming the positional relationship between the handwritten image and a photograph to be combined. When a writing sheet having a handwriting area in which a user writes the handwritten image to be combined with a photograph is printed, a reference image generated on the basis of the photograph is printed in the handwriting area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Maeda, Seiya Fujinaga, Yoshiyuki Hirai, Nobuyuki Bannai
  • Publication number: 20110290241
    Abstract: A nebulizer includes a main body unit, an atomization unit, and a breath detection unit, which is a function unit for realizing an additional function of the nebulizer. The main body unit and the atomization unit are separable. The atomization unit includes a storage section for storing the medicinal solution, and an atomizing section for spraying the medicinal solution by atomizing the medicinal solution in the storage section. The main body unit includes a control circuit for performing control to operate the atomizing section. The breath detection unit is attachable between the main body unit and the atomization unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masao MAEDA, Kei ASAI, Kentaro MORI, Makoto TABATA, Masayuki ESAKI, Toshiro FURUSAWA, Yusaku SAKODA, Yusuke KATO
  • Patent number: 8041149
    Abstract: It is intended to provide an image composition apparatus, a control method and program of an image processing apparatus which, when a user wants to combine a photo image and a handwritten image, even if the image processing apparatus is used for other purposes or even if the power of the image processing apparatus is turned off while the user is creating the handwritten image, enables the user to subsequently resume the image composition work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaishi
    Inventor: Masao Maeda
  • Publication number: 20110242563
    Abstract: An image combining apparatus and a control method for an image combining apparatus that allows a user to write a handwritten image on a writing sheet while confirming the positional relationship between the handwritten image and a photograph to be combined. When a writing sheet having a handwriting area in which a user writes the handwritten image to be combined with a photograph is printed, a reference image generated on the basis of the photograph is printed in the handwriting area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Maeda, Seiya Fujinaga, Yoshiyuki Hirai, Nobuyuki Bannai
  • Patent number: 8009314
    Abstract: In a copy operation for a first sheet of requested plural sheets, a reading unit reads a document and a data conversion section converts the document image data into recording data. A recording unit records the recording data, while the recording data is stored in an image memory. A data amount of recording data to be stored in the image memory is determined. If, when a copy operation for a first sheet is completed, all of recording data is incapable of being stored in the image memory and the determined data amount of recording data is equal to or smaller than an available storage capacity of the image memory on condition that a read operation and a record operation are separately executed, a residual sheet record operation is executed by separately executing the read operation and the record operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masao Maeda
  • Patent number: 7986832
    Abstract: An image combining apparatus and a control method for an image combining apparatus that allows a user to write a handwritten image on a writing sheet while confirming the positional relationship between the handwritten image and a photograph to be combined. When a writing sheet having a handwriting area in which a user writes the handwritten image to be combined with a photograph is printed, a reference image generated on the basis of the photograph is printed in the handwriting area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Maeda, Seiya Fujinaga, Yoshiyuki Hirai, Nobuyuki Bannai
  • Patent number: 7901022
    Abstract: A discharge failure nozzle, which cannot print, can be complemented by a printable discharge nozzle according to a simple, low-cost method capable of a high-speed process. A printing apparatus, which prints by using an inkjet head having nozzle arrays formed by arraying a plurality of nozzles for discharging ink while scanning the inkjet head on a printing medium, includes a storage unit which stores the position of an abnormal nozzle that abnormally discharges ink among the plurality of nozzles arrayed in the nozzle arrays, an assignment unit which assigns data subjected to discharge by the abnormal nozzle to a plurality of normal nozzles positioned near the abnormal nozzle in a nozzle array including the abnormal nozzle in accordance with predetermined priorities, and a control unit which controls to perform assignment of data subjected to discharge by the abnormal nozzle every time column data along the scanning direction are created by a predetermined number of columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Nakanishi, Kazuhisa Kuruma, Takayuki Murata, Yuichiro Suzuki, Hitoshi Nishikori, Masao Maeda
  • Publication number: 20100259796
    Abstract: It is intended to provide an image composition apparatus, a control method and program of an image processing apparatus which, when a user wants to combine a photo image and a handwritten image, even if the image processing apparatus is used for other purposes or even if the power of the image processing apparatus is turned off while the user is creating the handwritten image, enables the user to subsequently resume the image composition work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masao Maeda
  • Patent number: 7769245
    Abstract: An image combining apparatus and a control method for an image combining apparatus that allows a user to write a handwritten image on a writing sheet while confirming the positional relationship between the handwritten image and a photograph to be combined. When a writing sheet having a handwriting area in which a user writes the handwritten image to be combined with a photograph is printed, a reference image generated on the basis of the photograph is printed in the handwriting area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Maeda, Seiya Fujinaga, Yoshiyuki Hirai, Nobuyuki Bannai
  • Patent number: 7738732
    Abstract: It is intended to provide an image composition apparatus, a control method and program of an image processing apparatus which, when a user wants to combine a photo image and a handwritten image, even if the image processing apparatus is used for other purposes or even if the power of the image processing apparatus is turned off while the user is creating the handwritten image, enables the user to subsequently resume the image composition work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masao Maeda
  • Publication number: 20100128312
    Abstract: An image combining apparatus and a control method for an image combining apparatus that allows a user to write a handwritten image on a writing sheet while confirming the positional relationship between the handwritten image and a photograph to be combined. When a writing sheet having a handwriting area in which a user writes the handwritten image to be combined with a photograph is printed, a reference image generated on the basis of the photograph is printed in the handwriting area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Maeda, Seiya Fujinaga, Yoshiyuki Hirai, Nobuyuki Bannai
  • Patent number: 7690744
    Abstract: A discharge failure nozzle, which cannot print, can be complemented by a printable discharge nozzle according to a simple, low-cost method capable of a high-speed process. A printing apparatus, which prints by using an inkjet head having nozzle arrays formed by arraying a plurality of nozzles for discharging ink while scanning the inkjet head on a printing medium, includes a storage unit which stores the position of an abnormal nozzle that abnormally discharges ink among the plurality of nozzles arrayed in the nozzle arrays, an assignment unit which assigns data subjected to discharge by the abnormal nozzle to a plurality of normal nozzles positioned near the abnormal nozzle in a nozzle array including the abnormal nozzle in accordance with predetermined priorities, and a control unit which controls to perform assignment of data subjected to discharge by the abnormal nozzle every time column data along the scanning direction are created by a predetermined number of columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Nakanishi, Kazuhisa Kuruma, Takayuki Murata, Yuichiro Suzuki, Hitoshi Nishikori, Masao Maeda
  • Publication number: 20100033738
    Abstract: A print processing device including a printing unit to print an image on a sheet, a reading unit to read a sheet, an operation unit including keys to be operated by a user, a print control unit to cause the printing unit to print either a first sheet for selecting an image from a plurality of images stored in a storage medium or a second sheet for selecting a language to be used in the first sheet, and an analyzing unit configured to analyze an image read by the reading unit. If a language is not registered, when the image corresponding to the second sheet is detected as an analysis result by the analyzing unit, the first sheet is printed using a language associated with the detected image and when the image corresponding to the second sheet is not detected, the second sheet is printed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yumi Miyamoto, Masao Maeda, Akinori Horiuchi, Yoshiyuki Hirai, Keisuke Niimoto
  • Patent number: 7651194
    Abstract: In a printing apparatus which prints an image on a printing medium by alternately performing printing of an image on the printing medium by using a printing unit and conveyance of the printing medium relative to the printing unit, the conveyance amount in conveyance is corrected by using first and second parameters for correcting the conveyance amount in accordance with different factors. This makes it possible to correct the conveyance amount in accordance with the deviation of the printing position due to the different factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Yazawa, Hiroshi Tajika, Hitoshi Nishikori, Daisaku Ide, Atsuhiko Masuyama, Akiko Maru, Hideaki Takamiya, Kosuke Yamamoto, Masao Maeda
  • Patent number: 7460263
    Abstract: When it is determined that a device ID request has been made by a master apparatus, a slave apparatus returns device ID information including the latest status information to the master apparatus, starts a status information collecting process for newly collecting status information after the return of the device ID information, measures whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed from a point of time after completion of the latest status information collecting process, and returns period elapse information showing whether or not the predetermined time has elapsed on the basis of a result of the measurement together with the device ID information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masao Maeda
  • Patent number: 7450594
    Abstract: In multi-connections, a message writing apparatus is provided. This message writing apparatus (21) comprises a path recognizing section (21a), a received message assembling section (21b), a receive control section (21c), an arbitrating section (21d) and an external memory control section (21e). When a received ATM cell is written/readout in/from a receiving buffer, it is written/read out in a memory area corresponding to each path, which enables the processing of AAL5 messages from a plurality of paths and improves the transfer processing capability, thereby leading to realizing a shortening of the data transfer time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Akira Yamamori, Takeshi Sasaki, Eiji Maeda, Masao Maeda, Tatsuya Oku, Yoshinori Okuda, Tsuguo Okada, Akihiro Yasuo, Jinichi Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20080060540
    Abstract: In an image recording apparatus, when a photograph image to be printed on a printable surface area of a circular recording medium is selected, a margin area for writing a title or a description is set. Once the margin area has been set, the photograph image is arranged in an area of the printable surface area of the recording medium excluding the margin area. Then, the photograph image is printed in the area excluding the margin area of the recording medium as arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masao Maeda
  • Publication number: 20070188806
    Abstract: In a copy operation for a first sheet of requested plural sheets, a reading unit reads a document and a data conversion section converts the document image data into recording data. A recording unit records the recording data, while the recording data is stored in an image memory. A data amount of recording data to be stored in the image memory is determined. If, when a copy operation for a first sheet is completed, all of recording data is incapable of being stored in the image memory and the determined data amount of recording data is equal to or smaller than an available storage capacity of the image memory on condition that a read operation and a record operation are separately executed, a residual sheet record operation is executed by separately executing the read operation and the record operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masao Maeda
  • Publication number: 20070132805
    Abstract: A discharge failure nozzle, which cannot print, can be complemented by a printable discharge nozzle according to a simple, low-cost method capable of a high-speed process. A printing apparatus, which prints by using an inkjet head having nozzle arrays formed by arraying a plurality of nozzles for discharging ink while scanning the inkjet head on a printing medium, includes a storage unit which stores the position of an abnormal nozzle that abnormally discharges ink among the plurality of nozzles arrayed in the nozzle arrays, an assignment unit which assigns data subjected to discharge by the abnormal nozzle to a plurality of normal nozzles positioned near the abnormal nozzle in a nozzle array including the abnormal nozzle in accordance with predetermined priorities, and a control unit which controls to perform assignment of data subjected to discharge by the abnormal nozzle every time column data along the scanning direction are created by a predetermined number of columns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki NAKANISHI, Kazuhisa Kuruma, Takayuki Murata, Yuichiro Suzuki, Hitoshi Nishikori, Masao Maeda
  • Publication number: 20070076980
    Abstract: An image combining apparatus and a control method for an image combining apparatus that allows a user to write a handwritten image on a writing sheet while confirming the positional relationship between the handwritten image and a photograph to be combined. When a writing sheet having a handwriting area in which a user writes the handwritten image to be combined with a photograph is printed, a reference image generated on the basis of the photograph is printed in the handwriting area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Maeda, Seiya Fujinaga, Yoshiyuki Hirai, Nobuyuki Bannai