Patents by Inventor Nobutsune Kobayashi
Nobutsune Kobayashi 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: 11146692Abstract: An image reading apparatus is connectable to an information processing apparatus having predetermined software and includes at least a processor and at least a memory coupled to the processor and having stored thereon instructions. The instructions are executed by the processor to act as a reading unit to perform scan processing for a document in a case where a read command transmitted from the information processing apparatus by user operation to the predetermined software is received, a detection unit to detect an error in the image reading apparatus, and a transmission unit to execute image data transmission processing for transmitting image data corresponding to the detected error in a case where the detected error is a first error, and execute error transmission processing different from the image data transmission processing in a case where the detected error is a second error.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobutsune Kobayashi, Yoichiro Makino
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Patent number: 10873673Abstract: An object is to appropriately cope with that power supplied to a power receiving apparatus from an external device is not appropriate. An electronic device that drives by a bus power system and includes a detection unit configured to detect a drop in supply of power by the bus power system and a control unit configured to control the electronic device so that power consumption is reduced in a case where a drop in the supply of power is detected by the detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nobutsune Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20200374407Abstract: To provide an image reading apparatus capable of informing a user of the status of the image reading apparatus in a form understandable to the user without increasing a size or a cost, a control method of the image reading apparatus, and a program, explanatory image data is transmitted to a host computer instead of document image data in a case where an abnormality in the image reading apparatus is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Nobutsune Kobayashi, Yoichiro Makino
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Publication number: 20200045188Abstract: An object is to appropriately cope with that power supplied to a power receiving apparatus from an external device is not appropriate. An electronic device that drives by a bus power system and includes a detection unit configured to detect a drop in supply of power by the bus power system and a control unit configured to control the electronic device so that power consumption is reduced in a case where a drop in the supply of power is detected by the detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventor: Nobutsune Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10362192Abstract: A reading apparatus includes a reader that obtains image data by reading a reading target, a platen on which a document to be read by the reader located at a first position is set, a first member read by the reader located at the first position if there is no document on the platen, a second member read by the reader located at a second position, which is different from the first position, and a determination unit that performs a determination process for determining whether the document is set on the platen on the basis of a first output, which is obtained if the reader located at the first position reads the reading target, and a second output, which is obtained if the reader located at the second position reads the reading target.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keiko Harada, Nobutsune Kobayashi, Kimihiko Fukawa
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Publication number: 20180035000Abstract: A reading apparatus includes a reader that obtains image data by reading a reading target, a platen on which a document to be read by the reader located at a first position is set, a first member read by the reader located at the first position if there is no document on the platen, a second member read by the reader located at a second position, which is different from the first position, and a determination unit that performs a determination process for determining whether the document is set on the platen on the basis of a first output, which is obtained if the reader located at the first position reads the reading target, and a second output, which is obtained if the reader located at the second position reads the reading target.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Keiko Harada, Nobutsune Kobayashi, Kimihiko Fukawa
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Patent number: 9232106Abstract: An apparatus for moving a unit to execute scanning includes a scanning unit including a motor, an encoder for outputting a signal according to movement of the unit, a detection unit for detecting a current supplied to the motor, a speed control unit for executing a speed control of the motor according to the signal output from the encoder and the current detected by the detection unit, a movement control unit for setting a threshold value, moving the unit by driving the motor, by using the speed control unit, and a current control unit for setting a value greater than the predetermined value according to the threshold value and value of the current detected by the detection unit at a predetermined timing during a time period while the unit is moving.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomofumi Nishida, Nobutsune Kobayashi, Shinichi Yukiura, Hideyuki Kido, Ryoji Kanoyadani
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Publication number: 20140036321Abstract: An apparatus for moving a unit to execute scanning includes a scanning unit including a motor, an encoder for outputting a signal according to movement of the unit, a detection unit for detecting a current supplied to the motor, a speed control unit for executing a speed control of the motor according to the signal output from the encoder and the current detected by the detection unit, a movement control unit for setting a threshold value, moving the unit by driving the motor, by using the speed control unit, and a current control unit for setting a value greater than the predetermined value according to the threshold value and value of the current detected by the detection unit at a predetermined timing during a time period while the unit is moving.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomofumi Nishida, Nobutsune Kobayashi, Shinichi Yukiura, Hideyuki Kido, Ryoji Kanoyadani
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Patent number: 8373374Abstract: An apparatus including a DC motor includes a driven member configured to be driven by the DC motor, and a drive control unit configured to define a plurality of predetermined phases of the DC motor as target stop phases and to cause the DC motor to make at least one rotation to perform preliminary driving that rotates the DC motor to each target stop phase by driving and stopping the DC motor, configured to acquire a difference value between the target stop phase and an actual stop phase for each target stop phase, and configured to drive the DC motor so that the driven member is repeatedly moved and stopped in the operation of the driven member and to perform control so that, based on the difference value acquired by the acquisition unit, electric power is supplied to the DC motor in a phase corresponding to a stop position of the driven member.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2010Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryoji Kanoyadani, Hideyuki Kido, Tomofumi Nishida, Nobutsune Kobayashi, Shinichi Yukiura
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Patent number: 8248442Abstract: A side determination apparatus of an optical disc includes a light source illuminating one side of the optical disc having a data side and a non-data side obliquely; a sensor receiving a reflected light from the optical disc illuminated by the light source; and a determination unit determining that an incident light into the sensor is a reflected diffracted light from the data side of the optical disc based on a distribution of an output of the sensor onto a surface of the disc to determine the one side.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobutsune Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20110031923Abstract: An apparatus including a DC motor includes a driven member configured to be driven by the DC motor, and a drive control unit configured to define a plurality of predetermined phases of the DC motor as target stop phases and to cause the DC motor to make at least one rotation to perform preliminary driving that rotates the DC motor to each target stop phase by driving and stopping the DC motor, configured to acquire a difference value between the target stop phase and an actual stop phase for each target stop phase, and configured to drive the DC motor so that the driven member is repeatedly moved and stopped in the operation of the driven member and to perform control so that, based on the difference value acquired by the acquisition unit, electric power is supplied to the DC motor in a phase corresponding to a stop position of the driven member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryoji Kanoyadani, Hideyuki Kido, Tomofumi Nishida, Nobutsune Kobayashi, Shinichi Yukiura
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Publication number: 20110032583Abstract: An apparatus for moving a unit to execute scanning includes a scanning unit including a motor, an encoder for outputting a signal according to movement of the unit, a detection unit for detecting a current supplied to the motor, a speed control unit for executing a speed control of the motor according to the signal output from the encoder and the current detected by the detection unit, a movement control unit for setting a threshold value, moving the unit by driving the motor, by using the speed control unit, and a current control unit for setting a value greater than the predetermined value according to the threshold value and value of the current detected by the detection unit at a predetermined timing during a time period while the unit is moving.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomofumi Nishida, Nobutsune Kobayashi, Shinichi Yukiura, Hideyuki Kido, Ryoji Kanoyadani
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Publication number: 20090278909Abstract: A side determination apparatus of an optical disc includes a light source illuminating one side of the optical disc having a data side and a non-data side obliquely; a sensor receiving a reflected light from the optical disc illuminated by the light source; and a determination unit determining that an incident light into the sensor is a reflected diffracted light from the data side of the optical disc based on a distribution of an output of the sensor onto a surface of the disc to determine the one side.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2009Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nobutsune Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7481506Abstract: In a printing apparatus which prints using a printhead, a printing controller for feedback-controlling driving of a motor includes a control information generation unit which generates control information for a driving torque of the motor on the basis of a first driving pattern, a comparison unit which compares the control information and a threshold for determining an overload on driving of the motor, and a setting unit which sets a second driving pattern for changing a load on driving of the motor by the control information, instead of the first driving pattern, on the basis of the comparison result of the comparison unit. Control of the motor is switched in accordance with the load state.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2006Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Saito, Nobutsune Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7176649Abstract: When torque of a DC motor is dropped down to zero at a stop position, force is generated by deformation of a member for transmitting the torque of the DC motor. The force moves the driven body which is in the stopped state, which results in a shift of the driven body from the stop position. Therefore, a process for stopping the driven body is performed according to the amount of shift by an encoder which periodically outputs a pulse signal according to movement of the driven body, a unit for acquiring velocity information and position information of the driven body based on the pulse signal, a controlling unit for controlling a moving unit based on the velocity information and the position information, and a unit for calculating the amount of shift, which is caused by the force generated by the deformation of the member for transmitting the torque, at the stop position of the driven body.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2006Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Michiharu Shoji, Hiroyuki Saito, Nobutsune Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20060214965Abstract: In a printing apparatus which prints using a printhead, a printing controller for feedback-controlling driving of the printing apparatus includes a control information generation unit which generates control information for controlling driving of a motor on the basis of the first driving pattern, a comparison unit which compares the control information and a threshold for determining an overload on driving of the motor, and a setting unit which sets the second driving pattern for changing a load on driving of the motor by the control information, instead of the first driving pattern on the basis of the comparison result of the comparison unit. Control of the motor is switched in accordance with the load state.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2006Publication date: September 28, 2006Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Saito, Nobutsune Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20060202655Abstract: When torque of a DC motor is dropped down to zero at a stop position, force is generated by deformation of a member for transmitting the torque of the DC motor. The force moves the driven body which is in the stopped state, which results in a shift of the driven body from the stop position. Therefore, a process for stopping the driven body is performed according to the amount of shift by an encoder which periodically outputs a pulse signal according to movement of the driven body, a unit for acquiring velocity information and position information of the driven body based on the pulse signal, a controlling unit for controlling a moving unit based on the velocity information and the position information, and a unit for calculating the amount of shift, which is caused by the force generated by the deformation of the member for transmitting the torque, at the stop position of the driven body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2006Publication date: September 14, 2006Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Michiharu Shoji, Hiroyuki Saito, Nobutsune Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7097264Abstract: In a printing apparatus which prints using a printhead, a printing controller for feedback-controlling driving of the printing apparatus includes a control information generation unit which generates control information for controlling driving of a motor on the basis of the first driving pattern, a comparison unit which compares the control information and a threshold for determining an overload on driving of the motor, and a setting unit which sets the second driving pattern for changing a load on driving of the motor by the control information, instead of the first driving pattern, on the basis of the comparison result of the comparison unit. Control of the motor is switched in accordance with the load state.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2003Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Saito, Nobutsune Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7078875Abstract: When torque of a DC motor is dropped down to zero at a stop position, force is generated by deformation of a member for transmitting the torque of the DC motor. The force moves the driven body which is in the stopped state, which results in a shift of the driven body from the stop position. Therefore, a process for stopping the driven body is performed according to the amount of shift by an encoder which periodically outputs a pulse signal according to movement of the driven body, a unit for acquiring velocity information and position information of the driven body based on the pulse signal, a controlling unit for controlling a moving unit based on the velocity information and the position information, and a unit for calculating the amount of shift, which is caused by the force generated by the deformation of the member for transmitting the torque, at the stop position of the driven body.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2004Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Michiharu Shoji, Hiroyuki Saito, Nobutsune Kobayashi
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Patent number: 6969141Abstract: In the ink jet recording apparatus, while the formation of an image on the present sheet is in progress, the remaining length-to-rear end Le between the point at which the presence of the sheet is detected by the sheet detection sensor to the rear end of the present sheet and the remaining recording time Tr from the present time point to the time point at which the formation of the image on the present sheet is completed are measured. Further, in the apparatus, the sheet for the next page is supplied from the feed sheet unit when it is found that that the formation of the image on the sheet for the next page is necessary, that the remaining length-to-rear end Le is less than the reference remaining length-to-rear end Lr, and that the remaining recording time Tr is less than the reference remaining recording time TrR.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2003Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akinori Horiuchi, Nobutsune Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi Otani, Hiroyuki Saito, Akira Okamoto