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).
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Patent number: 8490963Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of printing a non-standard size image on a sheet of a size as desired by the user as possible, and preventing stoppage of printing the image even when there is no sheet of the size desired by the user in a sheet feeder. When image data is for a non-standard size, if there is a sheet feeder accommodating recording sheets of which vertical and lateral lengths corresponding to vertical and lateral lengths represented by the image data are designated, a control unit feeds the sheets from the sheet feeding cassette. If there is no such a sheet feeder, the control unit feeds recording sheets of a free size from a manual feed tray accommodating the recording sheets of the free size.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuaki Miyahara
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Patent number: 8368913Abstract: In an image processing system, a charging process for an executed print process is executed using one of a first charging method and a second charging method. Especially, when executing a print process of an image including a plurality of pages, it is determined before the start of the print process of the image including the plurality of pages on the basis of balance information managed in advance whether execution of the print process of the image including the plurality of pages is possible. When the first charging method is selected, execution of the print process is controlled on the basis of the result of determination. When the second charging method is selected, the print process is executed without determination.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuaki Miyahara, Hideyuki Makitani
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Publication number: 20120195618Abstract: In an image processing system, a charging process for an executed print process is executed using one of a first charging method and a second charging method. Especially, when executing a print process of an image including a plurality of pages, it is determined before the start of the print process of the image including the plurality of pages on the basis of balance information managed in advance whether execution of the print process of the image including the plurality of pages is possible. When the first charging method is selected, execution of the print process is controlled on the basis of the result of determination. When the second charging method is selected, the print process is executed without determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuaki Miyahara, Hideyuki Makitani
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Publication number: 20120176637Abstract: A double-sided manuscript is scanned and copied without degrading the security level and information leakage due to copy of the manuscript is prevented. When it is instructed to copy a manuscript in which a code indicating copy permission exists on a first side and the code does not exist on a second side, a copy is output, with one side bearing thereon a copied image of the first side and the other side being blank.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2011Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nobuaki Miyahara
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Patent number: 8175484Abstract: In an image processing system, a charging process for an executed print process is executed using one of a first charging method and a second charging method. Especially, when executing a print process of an image including a plurality of pages, it is determined before the start of the print process of the image including the plurality of pages on the basis of balance information managed in advance whether execution of the print process of the image including the plurality of pages is possible. When the first charging method is selected, execution of the print process is controlled on the basis of the result of determination. When the second charging method is selected, the print process is executed without determination.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2008Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuaki Miyahara, Hideyuki Makitani
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Patent number: 8125665Abstract: An image processing system includes a printing unit configured to print an image, a managing unit configured to manage charging information that can be reduced according to print processing performed by the printing unit, and a control unit configured to slow down the print processing performed by the printing unit if an available printing remaining amount indicated by the charging information is less than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2008Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuaki Miyahara
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Publication number: 20120001377Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of printing a non-standard size image on a sheet of a size as desired by the user as possible, and preventing stoppage of printing the image even when there is no sheet of the size desired by the user in a sheet feeder. When image data is for a non-standard size, if there is a sheet feeder accommodating recording sheets of which vertical and lateral lengths corresponding to vertical and lateral lengths represented by the image data are designated, a control unit feeds the sheets from the sheet feeding cassette. If there is no such a sheet feeder, the control unit feeds recording sheets of a free size from a manual feed tray accommodating the recording sheets of the free size.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nobuaki MIYAHARA
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Patent number: 8085419Abstract: An image input/output system which makes it possible to reduce a load on a server in the case of using a network scan function in a server based computing environment. An image input/output system comprises a multifunction peripheral, a server, and a computer which are communicably connected to one another via a network. The server receives a reading instruction from the computer and instructs the multifunction peripheral to read an original according to the reading instruction. In the multifunction peripheral, a reader section reads the original based on the instruction from the server, and a control section sends thumbnail image data obtained by the reader section to the computer without going through the server.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2007Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuaki Miyahara
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Publication number: 20100296827Abstract: In an image processing system, a charging process for an executed print process is executed using one of a first charging method and a second charging method. Especially, when executing a print process of an image including a plurality of pages, it is determined before the start of the print process of the image including the plurality of pages on the basis of balance information managed in advance whether execution of the print process of the image including the plurality of pages is possible. When the first charging method is selected, execution of the print process is controlled on the basis of the result of determination. When the second charging method is selected, the print process is executed without determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2008Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuaki Miyahara, Hideyuki Makitani
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Patent number: 7738143Abstract: The image data with the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image added and an image area flag signal stored in the hard disk drive are inputted into a thinning filter. A thinning circuit does not perform thinning processing on these pieces of data and outputs the inputted image, as it is. The filter performs processing so that an image of a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern background part may be deleted. A selector selects an image signal not passing through the filter for a latent mark of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern whose image area flag is set as “Character,” and select an image signal subjected to the processing by the filter for a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern background part whose image area flag is set as “Photograph.” By doing so, it is possible to perform low pass processing on only the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern background part and perform processing of making a latent-mark part emerge.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2006Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichi Ishimoto, Masaki Kashiwagi, Nobuaki Miyahara, Takayuki Hirata, Yousuke Aoki, Asami Horiuchi, Kenji Nagai, Shuuko Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20080297822Abstract: An image processing system includes a printing unit configured to print an image, a managing unit configured to manage charging information that can be reduced according to print processing performed by the printing unit, and a control unit configured to slow down the print processing performed by the printing unit if an available printing remaining amount indicated by the charging information is less than a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2008Publication date: December 4, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nobuaki Miyahara
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Patent number: 7433063Abstract: A data processing apparatus executes a plurality of types of jobs. In this apparatus, it is determined whether the execution history of each type of job is to be indicated. The execution history is stored if it is determined that it is to be indicated. The execution history is then transmitted to a PC on a network connected to the data processing apparatus and is displayed as a history list.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2005Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuaki Miyahara, Hiroshi Sumio, Hirohiko Itoh, Bungo Shimada
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Patent number: 7359079Abstract: In case of forming images by distributing image data mixedly including plural different kinds of data to plural image formation apparatuses, the data is distributed in consideration of a state of the image formation apparatus and data desired by a user is quickly output. In order to operate a system smoothly, an image formation system, which has an information processing apparatus capable of selectively transmitting a series of image data composed of plural pages containing first-kind image data and second-kind image data different from the first-kind image data to a first image formation apparatus and a second image formation apparatus in the page unit, controls to transmit the first-kind image data to the first image formation apparatus and transmit the second-kind image data to the second image formation apparatus from the series of image data.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2005Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuaki Miyahara
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Publication number: 20080055634Abstract: An image input/output system which makes it possible to reduce a load on a server in the case of using a network scan function in a server based computing environment. An image input/output system comprises a multifunction peripheral, a server, and a computer which are communicably connected to one another via a network. The server receives a reading instruction from the computer and instructs the multifunction peripheral to read an original according to the reading instruction. In the multifunction peripheral, a reader section reads the original based on the instruction from the server, and a control section sends thumbnail image data obtained by the reader section to the computer without going through the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2007Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nobuaki Miyahara
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Publication number: 20070147929Abstract: The image data with the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image added and an image area flag signal stored in the hard disk drive are inputted into a thinning filter. A thinning circuit does not perform thinning processing on these pieces of data and outputs the inputted image, as it is. The filter performs processing so that an image of a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern background part may be deleted. A selector selects an image signal not passing through the filter for a latent mark of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern whose image area flag is set as “Character,” and select an image signal subjected to the processing by the filter for a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern background part whose image area flag is set as “Photograph.” By doing so, it is possible to perform low pass processing on only the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern background part and perform processing of making a latent-mark part emerge.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2006Publication date: June 28, 2007Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi ISHIMOTO, Masaki KASHIWAGI, Nobuaki MIYAHARA, Takayuki HIRATA, Yousuke AOKI, Asami HORIUCHI, Kenji NAGAI, Shuuko KIKUCHI
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Patent number: 7023571Abstract: A method to enhance the copy or printout efficiency and decrease the number of output jobs that are abandoned because of undesirable outputs. Abort of output due to absence of sheets or staples, overload of a delivery tray, or the like is predicted. If output abort is determined, data is removed from an output queue and re-registered as an output reserve job at the end of the queue.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2004Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Bungo Shimada, Hiroshi Sumio, Hirohiko Ito, Nobuaki Miyahara
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Publication number: 20060061808Abstract: A data processing apparatus executes a plurality of types of jobs. In this apparatus, it is determined whether the execution history of each type of job is to be indicated. The execution history is stored if it is determined that it is to be indicated. The execution history is then transmitted to a PC on a network connected to the data processing apparatus and is displayed as a history list.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2005Publication date: March 23, 2006Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuaki Miyahara, Hiroshi Sumio, Hirohiko Itoh, Bungo Shimada
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Publication number: 20060001906Abstract: In case of forming images by distributing image data mixedly including plural different kinds of data to plural image formation apparatuses, the data is distributed in consideration of a state of the image formation apparatus and data desired by a user is quickly output. In order to operate a system smoothly, an image formation system, which has an information processing apparatus capable of selectively transmitting a series of image data composed of plural pages containing first-kind image data and second-kind image data different from the first-kind image data to a first image formation apparatus and a second image formation apparatus in the page unit, controls to transmit the first-kind image data to the first image formation apparatus and transmit the second-kind image data to the second image formation apparatus from the series of image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2005Publication date: January 5, 2006Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nobuaki Miyahara
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Publication number: 20050286944Abstract: Page numbers on original document volumes that have been read are deleted from the read image information as a part of image processing, and page information sorted with the original document pages of multiple read original document volumes as a single document is superimposed onto the image information from which the page numbers have been deleted, following which the pages are printed out. The pages are thus provided with serial page numbers according to the sorting thereof, and situations wherein both original and new page numbers are present on the pages can be avoided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2005Publication date: December 29, 2005Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiji Kanamoto, Nobuaki Miyahara
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Patent number: 6980310Abstract: A method to enhance the copy or printout efficiency and decrease the number of output jobs that are abandoned because of undesirable outputs. Abort of output due to absence of sheets or staples, overload of a delivery tray, or the like is predicted. If output abort is determined, data is removed from an output queue and re-registered as an output reserve job at the end of the queue.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1999Date of Patent: December 27, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Bungo Shimada, Hiroshi Sumio, Hirohiko Ito, Nobuaki Miyahara