Patents by Inventor Noritsugu Okayama

Noritsugu Okayama 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: 20240103786
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of sheet feeding units, a job reception unit configured to receive a print job, an instruction reception unit configured to receive a reservation instruction for reserving at least one sheet feeding unit of the plurality of sheet feeding units, an identification unit configured to identify a sheet feeding unit from among the plurality of sheet feeding units based on a setting of the received print job, and a notification unit configured to notify, in response to an execution instruction of a print job in which a sheet feeding unit for which the instruction reception unit has received the reservation instruction is identified, and in which a specific setting is not made, a user of information indicating that the sheet feeding unit is reserved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: YASUHIRO TAKAHASHI, SATOSHI OKUMA, NORITSUGU OKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230251807
    Abstract: A server apparatus that is capable of notifying a user of an execution situation of a print job input to an image forming apparatus from an external apparatus. The server apparatus notifies an application of a communication terminal of information about a print job executed by an image forming apparatus. The server apparatus includes an obtainment unit that obtains status information about a print job that is input to the image forming apparatus from an external apparatus, and a controller that displays a message based on the status information on a display unit of the communication terminal. The controller displays a message, which shows that a predetermined print job cannot be executed because another print job is under execution, in a case where the predetermined print job is input to the image forming apparatus and the image forming apparatus is executing the other print job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventor: Noritsugu OKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230171359
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a reading device configured to perform reading processing for reading an original, and one or more controllers configured to function as an acquisition unit that acquires a number of processing operations per unit time period of the reading processing, and an acquisition unit that acquires operation rate information about the reading device based on the number of processing operations per unit time period of the reading processing and a predetermined number of processing operations of the reading processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi Okuma, Noritsugu Okayama
  • Patent number: 11601564
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a reading device configured to perform reading processing for reading an original, and one or more controllers configured to function as an acquisition unit that acquires a number of processing operations per unit time period of the reading processing, and an acquisition unit that acquires operation rate information about the reading device based on the number of processing operations per unit time period of the reading processing and a predetermined number of processing operations of the reading processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Okuma, Noritsugu Okayama
  • Publication number: 20220174167
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a reading device configured to perform reading processing for reading an original and one or more controllers configured to function as an acquisition unit that acquires a number of processing operations per unit time period of the reading processing, and an acquisition unit that acquires operation rate information about the reading device based on the number of processing Operations per unit time period of the reading processing and a predetermined number of processing operations of the reading processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi Okuma, Noritsugu Okayama
  • Patent number: 11334440
    Abstract: An information processing system including a first information processing apparatus including a unit configured to transmit information about the first information processing apparatus to a server, and a unit configured to cause a display to display a screen via which backup data to be imported to the first information processing apparatus is to be designated. The server including a unit configured to acquire identification information about some backup data, the identification information acquired based on the transmitted information and the some backup data including backup data about a second information processing apparatus different from the first information processing apparatus, from among a plurality of pieces of backup data about one or more information processing apparatuses managed by the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noritsugu Okayama
  • Patent number: 11296943
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a management unit configured to manage configuration information indicating a device configuration of the information processing apparatus, a receiving unit configured to receive setting information to be used by the information processing apparatus to perform an operation, from a server, and a control unit configured to control, in a case where setting information stored in the information processing apparatus is updated by using the received setting information, whether to execute processing for causing the information processing apparatus to reflect the update of the setting information, based on a type of the setting information to be updated and the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noritsugu Okayama
  • Publication number: 20210243333
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus saves log information related to an executed job, and includes a determination unit that determines one of at least a first mode and a second mode as a saving mode for the log information, based on setting by a user, and a saving control unit that saves log information including information about a plurality of items related to an executed job, in a case where the first mode is determined as the saving mode, and saves log information not including information about a predetermined first item and including information about a second item different from the first item, among the plurality of items related to the executed job, in a case where the second mode is determined as the saving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventor: Noritsugu Okayama
  • Patent number: 11061625
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that improves user-friendliness in changing settings concerning the control thereof. Settings of the information processing apparatus are classified according to categories, and restart information indicative of whether or not restart of the information processing apparatus is required to cause changes of the settings to take effect is stored on a category-by-category basis. A configuration file for changing the settings is acquired. Before changing the settings based on the configuration file, it is determined based on categories of to-be-changed settings and the restart information whether or not the restart is required to cause the changes in the settings specified in the configuration file to take effect. The results of determination are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noritsugu Okayama
  • Patent number: 11012590
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus saves log information related to an executed job, and includes a determination unit that determines one of at least a first mode and a second mode as a saving mode for the log information, based on setting by a user, and a saving control unit that saves log information including information about a plurality of items related to an executed job, in a case where the first mode is determined as the saving mode, and saves log information not including information about a predetermined first item and including information about a second item different from the first item, among the plurality of items related to the executed job, in a case where the second mode is determined as the saving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noritsugu Okayama
  • Publication number: 20200310918
    Abstract: An information processing system including a first information processing apparatus including a unit configured to transmit information about the first information processing apparatus to a server, and a unit configured to cause a display to display a screen via which backup data to be imported to the first information processing apparatus is to be designated. The server including a unit configured to acquire identification information about some backup data, the identification information acquired based on the transmitted information and the some backup data including backup data about a second information processing apparatus different from the first information processing apparatus, from among a plurality of pieces of backup data about one or more information processing apparatuses managed by the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Noritsugu Okayama
  • Patent number: 10558370
    Abstract: Data stored in a hard disk drive (HDD) is processed to generate cache data to be stored in a random access memory (RAM). If a data access request is received from an application and valid cache data corresponding to the access request is present in the RAM, response data is acquired from the RAM, without accessing the HDD, and the response data is transmitted to the source of the access request. If the valid cache data corresponding to the access request is not present in the RAM, response data is acquired from the HDD and the response data is transmitted to the source of the access request. Consequently, the number of times of access to the HDD is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noritsugu Okayama
  • Publication number: 20200028989
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus saves log information related to an executed job, and includes a determination unit that determines one of at least a first mode and a second mode as a saving mode for the log information, based on setting by a user, and a saving control unit that saves log information including information about a plurality of items related to an executed job, in a case where the first mode is determined as the saving mode, and saves log information not including information about a predetermined first item and including information about a second item different from the first item, among the plurality of items related to the executed job, in a case where the second mode is determined as the saving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventor: Noritsugu Okayama
  • Patent number: 10306084
    Abstract: A display unit displays a predetermined message, if at least part of setting information received from a server after a login is not reflected or is possibly not to be reflected in an information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noritsugu Okayama
  • Publication number: 20190042164
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that improves user-friendliness in changing settings concerning the control thereof. Settings of the information processing apparatus are classified according to categories, and restart information indicative of whether or not restart of the information processing apparatus is required to cause changes of the settings to take effect is stored on a category-by-category basis. A configuration file for changing the settings is acquired. Before changing the settings based on the configuration file, it is determined based on categories of to-be-changed settings and the restart information whether or not the restart is required to cause the changes in the settings specified in the configuration file to take effect. The results of determination are displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventor: Noritsugu Okayama
  • Publication number: 20180351807
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a management unit configured to manage configuration information indicating a device configuration of the information processing apparatus, a receiving unit configured to receive setting information to be used by the information processing apparatus to perform an operation, from a server, and a control unit configured to control, in a case where setting information stored in the information processing apparatus is updated by using the received setting information, whether to execute processing for causing the information processing apparatus to reflect the update of the setting information, based on a type of the setting information to be updated and the configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Noritsugu Okayama
  • Patent number: 10104244
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing system which reduces the load of destination registration on the user. To accomplish this, in an image processing system including a PC (102) and device (101) connected to a network, the PC (102) has a transfer unit (120) which transfers identification data of the PC (102) to the device (101), and the device (101) has a scanner unit (130) which scans an image and outputs the image data, a memory (140) which stores a destination of the output image data from the scanner unit (130), a transfer unit (150) which transfers the image data to the destination stored in the memory (140), and a registration unit (170) which receives the identification data transferred by the transfer unit (120), and registers the received identification data as a destination of image data in the memory (140).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhito Niikura, Fumio Shoji, Takao Ikuno, Masahiro Odaira, Yoshiaki Katahira, Toru Fujino, Kenji Kasuya, Noritsugu Okayama
  • Patent number: 10097716
    Abstract: There is provided a server apparatus including a storage unit configured to store setting information used by a client apparatus to operate, a reception unit configured to receive, from a first client apparatus, a deletion request for deleting a part of the setting information from among the setting information stored in the storage unit, a notification unit configured to notify a second client apparatus of update information indicating that the part of the setting information for which the deletion request has been made is deleted, and a control unit configured to perform control in such a manner that the update information remains to be stored in the storage unit until a predetermined condition is satisfied after the deletion request is received, and is deleted from the storage unit in accordance with a satisfaction of the predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noritsugu Okayama
  • Patent number: 10075340
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a management unit configured to manage configuration information indicating a device configuration of the information processing apparatus, a receiving unit configured to receive setting information to be used by the information processing apparatus to perform an operation, from a server, and a control unit configured to control, in a case where setting information stored in the information processing apparatus is updated by using the received setting information, whether to execute processing for causing the information processing apparatus to reflect the update of the setting information, based on a type of the setting information to be updated and the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noritsugu Okayama
  • Publication number: 20180196613
    Abstract: Data stored in a hard disk drive (HDD) is processed to generate cache data to be stored in a random access memory (RAM). If a data access request is received from an application and valid cache data corresponding to the access request is present in the RAM, response data is acquired from the RAM, without accessing the HDD, and the response data is transmitted to the source of the access request. If the valid cache data corresponding to the access request is not present in the RAM, response data is acquired from the HDD and the response data is transmitted to the source of the access request. Consequently, the number of times of access to the HDD is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventor: Noritsugu Okayama