Patents by Inventor Nobuaki Miyahara

Nobuaki Miyahara 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: 20240126201
    Abstract: An object is to enable management work such as maintenance of parts of a printing apparatus in an integrated manner. An apparatus according to the present disclosure obtains: first condition information indicating a condition of a constituent part of a printing apparatus, specified based on a life of the part; and second condition information indicating a condition of the part specified based on a scanned image obtained by reading a print medium on which an image has been formed by the printing apparatus. The apparatus further generates a display image representing the condition of the part indicated by the first condition information and the condition of the part indicated by the second condition information, and outputs a signal representing the display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventor: NOBUAKI MIYAHARA
  • Publication number: 20230168851
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is configured to communicate with an external controller configured to generate a job, and includes one or more controllers having one or more processors and one or more memories, the one or more controllers being configured to acquire an image from a first job upon receiving the first job from the external controller and register a reference image generated from the image, to execute inspection processing upon receiving a second job from the external controller, and to perform control to delete the reference image registered upon receiving a cancellation instruction to cancel the second job from the external controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventor: Nobuaki Miyahara
  • Publication number: 20230068383
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus holds a print job and identification information of a reference image that is associated with the print job and is used in inspection printing of the print job. In a case that a reprint according to the held print job is instructed, the information processing apparatus determines whether or not a change has been made in print settings of the held print job and whether or not inspection printing that uses the reference image being associated with the held print job is possible, and in a case that it is determined that the inspection printing that uses the reference image being associated with the held print job is not possible, controls so as to set the identification information of the reference image in the held print job to none and transmits the held print job to the printing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: Nobuaki Miyahara
  • Publication number: 20220327677
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a printer configured to print image data on a printing medium, a storage, and a controller configured to compare reference image data with an image printed on the printing medium, wherein the controller is configured to execute layout processing of the image data on the printing medium based on a size of the printing medium and an image size of the image data, calculate offset information in the layout processing of the image data on the printing medium, and store the image data of which the layout processing is executed and the offset information in the storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventor: Nobuaki Miyahara
  • Publication number: 20220276813
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that comprises a printer configured to print image data on a print medium based on a print setting and a storage device and compares reference image data and the image data printed on the print medium, includes a controller having one or more processors which execute instructions stored in one or more memories, the controller being configured to execute layout processing for laying out the image data based on the print setting, and store the image data subjected to the layout processing as the reference image data in the storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventor: Nobuaki Miyahara
  • Patent number: 11026932
    Abstract: A method for treating an inflammatory respiratory disease, comprising administering an effective amount of an RXR agonist represented by formula (1) or (2) as an active ingredient. wherein D, R1, R2, X, Y, Z, R3, R4, X1, Y1, X2, Y2 and Z1 are defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Arihiko Kanehiro, Utako Fujii, Daisuke Morichika, Naohiro Oda, Nobuaki Miyahara, Akihiko Taniguchi, Hiroki Kakuta
  • Patent number: 10974920
    Abstract: A control device, to control a system having an image forming apparatus to form an image on a sheet based on an image forming job and a sheet discharge apparatus having stacking trays for the sheet, includes a storage storing stacking state information for each stacking tray, a generator, a display controller, and an input portion. The generator generates a system configuration image, and a sheet bundle image representing a sheet bundle stacked on each stacking tray based on the stored stacking state information. The display controller displays a screen in which the sheet bundle image is combined at a position of each stacking tray in the system configuration image. The input portion inputs designation of an image forming job corresponding to sheets to be taken out. The display controller displays an order of taking out the sheets corresponding to the image forming job designated through the input portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuaki Miyahara, Ryo Fujita, Toru Shinnae, Yoshitaka Oba
  • Patent number: 10954094
    Abstract: If an inter sheet on a designated feed tray during execution of a print job is lacking, and when a setting received via an operation unit is for a first mode, a control unit switches a feed source from the designated feed tray to another feed tray on which an inter sheet of the same size has been placed and continues the print job, and when the setting is for a second mode, interrupts the print job without switching the feed source from the designated feed tray to another feed tray. In a case where a plurality of feed trays are designated as a feed source, the control unit interrupts the print job without switching the feed source from the feed tray in which the inter sheet is lacking to another feed tray even if the setting is for the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuaki Miyahara, Takashi Kuroda
  • Patent number: 10754284
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a processor and a memory to control a system having an image forming apparatus and a sheet discharge apparatus. Executing a memory store program causes the control apparatus to receive configuration information of the system and generate a system configuration image, receive stacking state information and generate a sheet bundle image, display a screen, receive job identification information of an image forming job of sheets to be picked up, and display a thumbnail image. The stacking state information includes a stacking amount of sheets stacked on a sheet stacking tray. The sheet bundle image represents the sheets stacked on a sheet stacking tray based on the stacking state information. The system configuration image and the sheet bundle image are combined in the screen. The thumbnail image is based on receiving the job identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Shinnae, Jerome Guermont, Nobuaki Miyahara, Ryo Fujita, Yoshitaka Oba
  • Patent number: 10726318
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus can facilitate a determination whether a sheet having an image formed thereon, which is discharged by a designated processed job, is allowed to be taken out or not. The image forming apparatus determines whether or not the sheet having the image formed thereon discharged by the designated processed job is stacked on a stacking unit on which the sheet having the image formed thereon discharged by a job currently performing image forming processing, based on stack state information which can be updated in real time. When a sheet having the image formed thereon is not allowed to be taken out, the image of the portion corresponding the sheet is highlighted. Further, a waiting time is displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuaki Miyahara, Ryo Fujita, Yoshitaka Oba, Toru Shinnae
  • Patent number: 10712700
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a processor and a memory to control a system having an image forming apparatus and a sheet discharge apparatus. Executing a memory store program causes the control apparatus to receive configuration information of the system and generate a system configuration image, receive stacking state information and generate a sheet bundle image, display a screen, receive job identification information of an image forming job of sheets to be picked up, and display a thumbnail image. The stacking state information includes a stacking amount of sheets stacked on a sheet stacking tray. The sheet bundle image represents the sheets stacked on a sheet stacking tray based on the stacking state information. The system configuration image and the sheet bundle image are combined in the screen. The thumbnail image is based on receiving the job identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Shinnae, Jerome Guermont, Nobuaki Miyahara, Ryo Fujita, Yoshitaka Oba
  • Publication number: 20200179353
    Abstract: A method for treating an inflammatory respiratory disease, comprising administering an effective amount of an RXR agonist represented by formula (1) or (2) as an active ingredient. wherein D, R1, R2, X, Y, Z, R3, R4, X1, Y1, X2, Y2 and Z1 are defined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Arihiko KANEHIRO, Utako FUJII, Daisuke MORICHIKA, Naohiro ODA, Nobuaki MIYAHARA, Akihiko TANIGUCHI, Hiroki KAKUTA
  • Patent number: 10649382
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a processor and a memory to control a system having an image forming apparatus and a sheet discharge apparatus. Executing a memory store program causes the control apparatus to receive configuration information of the system and generate a system configuration image, receive stacking state information and generate a sheet bundle image, display a screen, receive job identification information of an image forming job of sheets to be picked up, and display a thumbnail image. The stacking state information includes a stacking amount of sheets stacked on a sheet stacking tray. The sheet bundle image represents the sheets stacked on a sheet stacking tray based on the stacking state information. The system configuration image and the sheet bundle image are combined in the screen. The thumbnail image is based on receiving the job identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Shinnae, Jerome Guermont, Nobuaki Miyahara, Ryo Fujita, Yoshitaka Oba
  • Patent number: 10627767
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of making a match between the orientation of a reference side of a sheet along which punched holes are formed and the orientation of an output image on the sheet in double-sided printing. It is determined whether or not to rotate an image based on whether the image is printed in a single-sided printing mode or a double-sided printing mode. In the double-sided printing mode, a reverse-side image is printed on a first surface of the sheet, the sheet is conveyed into the printing section through a double-sided conveying path, a front-side image is printed on a second surface of the sheet, and the sheet is discharged. In the single-sided printing mode, an image for single-sided printing is printed on a first surface of the sheet, and the sheet is discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobuaki Miyahara
  • Publication number: 20200010299
    Abstract: If an inter sheet on a designated feed tray during execution of a print job is lacking, and when a setting received via an operation unit is for a first mode, a control unit switches a feed source from the designated feed tray to another feed tray on which an inter sheet of the same size has been placed and continues the print job, and when the setting is for a second mode, interrupts the print job without switching the feed source from the designated feed tray to another feed tray. In a case where a plurality of feed trays are designated as a feed source, the control unit interrupts the print job without switching the feed source from the feed tray in which the inter sheet is lacking to another feed tray even if the setting is for the first mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Nobuaki Miyahara, Takashi Kuroda
  • Patent number: 10518999
    Abstract: A control device includes a storage and a controller and controls a system having an image forming apparatus to form an image onto a sheet based on an image forming job, and a sheet stacking apparatus having a stacking tray. The storage stores stacking state information indicating a state of sheets stacked and/or to be stacked on the stacking tray. The controller controls to generate a system configuration image that visualizes a configuration of the system, to generate a sheet bundle image that visualizes a sheet bundle stacked on the tray, and to display a screen in which the sheet bundle image is combined at a position of the stacking tray in the system configuration image. The controller controls to display the sheet bundle image such that sheets of a processed job, sheets of a job being processed, and sheets of a processing waiting job are distinguished from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryo Fujita, Jerome Guermont, Toru Shinnae, Nobuaki Miyahara, Yoshitaka Oba
  • Publication number: 20190377990
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus to facilitate a determination whether a sheet having an image formed thereon, which is discharged by a designated processed job, is allowed to be taken out or not. The image forming apparatus determines whether or not the sheet having the image formed thereon discharged by the designated processed job is stacked on a stacking unit on which the sheet having the image formed thereon discharged by a job currently performing image forming processing, based on stack state information which can be updated in real time. When a sheet having the image formed thereon is not allowed to be taken out, the image of the portion corresponding the sheet is highlighted. Further, a waiting time is displayed on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Nobuaki Miyahara, Ryo Fujita, Yoshitaka Oba, Toru Shinnae
  • Patent number: 10416934
    Abstract: A control device to control an image forming system having an image forming apparatus and a sheet discharge apparatus and includes a storage, a generator, and a controller. The storage stores sheet stacking information and taking out completion information. The generator generates a sheet bundle image representing a sheet bundle stacked on each of plural stacking trays based on the stored sheet stacking information. The controller combines the sheet bundle image with a system configuration image to display a combination on a display. The controller filters, from a list of processed image forming jobs, an image forming job for which sheets are not taken out to display the filtered image forming job on the display, and updates the sheet stacking information and the taking out completion information where the controller controls to determine that the sheet bundle stacked on any one of the plural stacking trays is taken out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Oba, Nobuaki Miyahara, Ryo Fujita, Toru Shinnae
  • Patent number: 10412249
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that is capable of calculating an appropriate replacement guide value of a part even in a case where the image processing apparatus operates under different operating modes. The image processing apparatus is capable of operating in a plurality of operating modes of different image forming speeds and has a replacement guide default value showing a guide for replacement of a part for each of the operating modes. A degree of wear of the part for each of the operating modes is calculated based on the replacement guide default value. The calculated degree of wear is, in a case where the operating mode is changed, converted to a degree of wear for the operating mode after the change, and a replacement guide value of the part in the operating mode is calculated after the change based on the converted degree of wear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobuaki Miyahara
  • Publication number: 20190037093
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that is capable of calculating an appropriate replacement guide value of a part even in a case where the image processing apparatus operates under different operating modes. The image processing apparatus is capable of operating in a plurality of operating modes of different image forming speeds and has a replacement guide default value showing a guide for replacement of a part for each of the operating modes. A degree of wear of the part for each of the operating modes is calculated based on the replacement guide default value. The calculated degree of wear is, in a case where the operating mode is changed, converted to a degree of wear for the operating mode after the change, and a replacement guide value of the part in the operating mode is calculated after the change based on the converted degree of wear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventor: Nobuaki Miyahara