Patents by Inventor Minako Adachi

Minako Adachi 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).

  • Print control apparatus, print control method, storage medium for storing program, and printing system
    Patent number: 9497340
    Abstract: Degrees of wear of each of common components in respective printing apparatuses is acquired, the common components being used in a plurality of printing apparatuses. Print processing that the respective printing apparatuses are caused to execute is determined, based on the acquired degree of wear of a component for which a maintenance time is long among the common components, in the respective printing apparatuses. A printing apparatus is caused to execute print processing, based on this determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Minako Adachi
  • Print control method, printing method, and continuous sheet to be printed used in the method
    Patent number: 9079425
    Abstract: In duplex printing on a continuous sheet, a schedule for the printing is appropriately set depending on a unique portion present on the sheet. On the continuous sheet, a plurality of images is printed according to the schedule. First, information, that is preliminarily recorded on the continuous sheet to be used, with respect to a location of the unique portion present on the continuous sheet and a sheet surface where the unique portion is present are obtained. Then, on the basis of the obtained information, the schedule is set so as to print the images with avoiding the unique portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Minako Adachi
  • PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING PROGRAM, AND PRINTING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150181058
    Abstract: Degrees of wear of each of common components in respective printing apparatuses is acquired, the common components being used in a plurality of printing apparatuses. Print processing that the respective printing apparatuses are caused to execute is determined, based on the acquired degree of wear of a component for which a maintenance time is long among the common components, in the respective printing apparatuses. A printing apparatus is caused to execute print processing, based on this determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventor: Minako Adachi
  • PRINT CONTROL METHOD, PRINTING METHOD, AND CONTINUOUS SHEET TO BE PRINTED USED IN THE METHOD
    Publication number: 20140035986
    Abstract: In duplex printing on a continuous sheet, a schedule for the printing is appropriately set depending on a unique portion present on the sheet. On the continuous sheet, a plurality of images is printed according to the schedule. First, information, that is preliminarily recorded on the continuous sheet to be used, with respect to a location of the unique portion present on the continuous sheet and a sheet surface where the unique portion is present are obtained. Then, on the basis of the obtained information, the schedule is set so as to print the images with avoiding the unique portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Minako Adachi