Patents by Inventor Shigeyuki Mitani

Shigeyuki Mitani 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: 20110173531
    Abstract: The invention relates to an editing of a digital document containing an image, a text, a pattern and the like on pages constituting the digital document. In response to an operation for deleting an image positioned in a page, such image is not added to another page but is moved to and displayed in an evacuation area provided independently from the page area. In the evacuation area, such image is displayed together with a serial number of the page in which such image was present originally. Thus the page layout is not destructed in pages other than the page of image deletion, and the user can easily confirm later the image existed in such page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosato Hitaka, Toshiyuki Noguchi, Shigeyuki Mitani
  • Patent number: 7940284
    Abstract: The invention relates to an editing of a digital document containing an image, a text, a pattern and the like on pages constituting the digital document. In response to an operation for deleting an image positioned in a page, such image is not added to another page but is moved to and displayed in an evacuation area provided independently from the page area. In the evacuation area, such image is displayed together with a serial number of the page in which such image was present originally. Thus the page layout is not destructed in pages other than the page of image deletion, and the user can easily confirm later the image existed in such page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yosato Hitaka, Toshiyuki Noguchi, Shigeyuki Mitani
  • Patent number: 7873721
    Abstract: Upon transferring image data stored in a first information processing apparatus (photo site) to a second information processing apparatus (print site), at least one of information that pertains to whether or not the image data is to be acquired by the second information processing apparatus, information that pertains to whether or not the image data has already been acquired by the second information processing apparatus, and information that pertains to the number of times of acquisition of the image data by the second information processing apparatus is managed, and whether or not unwanted image data is transferred to the second information processing apparatus, and whether or not image data illicitly leaks to the second information processing apparatus are monitored on the basis of the managed information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yosato Hitaka, Akihiro Masukawa, Hiroshi Satomi, Kenji Kasai, Yoichi Matsuyama, Shigeyuki Mitani, Koichiro Tanaka, Satoshi Watanabe, Tomonobu Hiraishi
  • Publication number: 20100251110
    Abstract: When editing a document having a page that contains image data and text data arranged to coexist, a document processing apparatus determines whether text data exists in each text region in the page. Then, when a user inputs a predetermined operation, among a plurality of text regions in the page, the document processing apparatus performs, on a screen thereof, enlargement display of ranges respectively containing text regions each of which is determined so that text data exists therein. Consequently, when editing a document having a page that contains image data and text data arranged to coexist, users can easily confirm input contents of text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigeyuki Mitani
  • Patent number: 7725355
    Abstract: When there is an inquiry about a deficiency point from a user who received a print product, a service provider side can properly deal with the inquiry. A server receives warning information on an edit process generated when the edit process not satisfying a preset condition is performed and edit data generated in the edit process, and associates with each other and registers the warning information and edit data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Mitani, Toshiyuki Noguchi, Yosato Hitaka
  • Patent number: 7559014
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus having a data analysis circuit for extracting data control information from data provided with the data control information to be used for restricting various processes, a data processing circuit for performing various processes for the data added with the data control information, a display unit for displaying a process function of each of the various processes to be executed by the data processing circuit, and a control circuit for controlling the data processing circuit and the display unit in accordance with the data control information extracted by the data analysis circuit, wherein the control circuit inhibits to execute an inhibited process in accordance with the data control information extracted from the data and controls the display unit to change a display style of the process function of each of the various processes to an inhibition display style.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kikuo Naito, Kunio Seto, Hideaki Ohshima, Shigeyuki Mitani, Toshiyuki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 7340449
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to provide a method of controlling a server apparatus for disclosing image data with a representation effect to a third party without any operation of a user, a program for causing a computer apparatus to execute the method, a storage medium which stores the program, and a computer apparatus. The server apparatus which stores image data received from the user via a network in a memory sets a representation effect used to disclose image data. The server apparatus creates page information for displaying the image data with the representation effect, and notifies a third party of the URL of the page information. The third party can browse the image data with the representation effect on the basis of the URL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Chikara Morisada, Shigeyuki Mitani
  • Publication number: 20080016152
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to provide a method of controlling a server apparatus for disclosing image data with a representation effect to a third party without any operation of a user, a program for causing a computer apparatus to execute the method, a storage medium which stores the program, and a computer apparatus. The server apparatus which stores image data received from the user via a network in a memory sets a representation effect used to disclose image data. The server apparatus creates page information for displaying the image data with the representation effect, and notifies a third party of the URL of the page information. The third party can browse the image data with the representation effect on the basis of the URL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chikara MORISADA, Shigeyuki MITANI
  • Publication number: 20070226330
    Abstract: Upon transferring image data stored in a first information processing apparatus (photo site) to a second information processing apparatus (print site), at least one of information that pertains to whether or not the image data is to be acquired by the second information processing apparatus, information that pertains to whether or not the image data has already been acquired by the second information processing apparatus, and information that pertains to the number of times of acquisition of the image data by the second information processing apparatus is managed, and whether or not unwanted image data is transferred to the second information processing apparatus, and whether or not image data illicitly leaks to the second information processing apparatus are monitored on the basis of the managed information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: YOSATO HITAKA, Akihiro Masukawa, Hiroshi Satomi, Kenji Kasai, Yoichi Matsuyama, Shigeyuki Mitani, Koichiro Tanaka, Satoshi Watanabe, Tomonobu Hiraishi
  • Patent number: 7046258
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus having a data analysis circuit for extracting data control information from data provided with the data control information to be used for restricting various processes, a data processing circuit for performing various processes for the data added with the data control information, a display unit for displaying a process function of each of the various processes to be executed by the data processing circuit, and a control circuit for controlling the data processing circuit and the display unit in accordance with the data control information extracted by the data analysis circuit, wherein the control circuit inhibits to execute an inhibited process in accordance with the data control information extracted from the data and controls the display unit to change a display style of the process function of each of the various processes to an inhibition display style.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kikuo Naito, Kunio Seto, Hideaki Ohshima, Shigeyuki Mitani, Toshiyuki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20060053370
    Abstract: An arrangement of images in an electronic document having multiple pages, such as an electronic album is disclosed. First, an image/images are arranged on each of the multiple pages in accordance with a first layout. When change of the number of image/images arranged on one page among the multiple pages is detected in response to an user operation, a second layout corresponding to the changed quantity is automatically selected, and an image/images are re-arranged on the page in accordance with the second layout. Thereby, it is possible to save the user from the trouble of manually re-arranging the changed number of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventors: Yosato Hitaka, Toshiyuki Noguchi, Shigeyuki Mitani
  • Publication number: 20060050300
    Abstract: When there is an inquiry about a deficiency point from a user who received a print product, a service provider side can properly deal with the inquiry. A server receives warning information on an edit process generated when the edit process not satisfying a preset condition is performed and edit data generated in the edit process, and associates with each other and registers the warning information and edit data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Mitani, Toshiyuki Noguchi, Yosato Hitaka
  • Publication number: 20060050337
    Abstract: The invention relates to an editing of a digital document containing an image, a text, a pattern and the like on pages constituting the digital document. In response to an operation for deleting an image positioned in a page, such image is not added to another page but is moved to and displayed in an evacuation area provided independently from the page area. In the evacuation area, such image is displayed together with a serial number of the page in which such image was present originally. Thus the page layout is not destructed in pages other than the page of image deletion, and the user can easily confirm later the image existed in such page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosato Hitaka, Toshiyuki Noguchi, Shigeyuki Mitani
  • Publication number: 20050257273
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus having a data analysis circuit for extracting data control information from data provided with the data control information to be used for restricting various processes, a data processing circuit for performing various processes for the data added with the data control information, a display unit for displaying a process function of each of the various processes to be executed by the data processing circuit, and a control circuit for controlling the data processing circuit and the display unit in accordance with the data control information extracted by the data analysis circuit, wherein the control circuit inhibits to execute an inhibited process in accordance with the data control information extracted from the data and controls the display unit to change a display style of the process function of each of the various processes to an inhibition display style.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kikuo Naito, Kunio Seto, Hideaki Ohshima, Shigeyuki Mitani, Toshiyuki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20050125721
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to provide a method of controlling a server apparatus for disclosing image data with a representation effect to a third party without any operation of a user, a program for causing a computer apparatus to execute the method, a storage medium which stores the program, and a computer apparatus. The server apparatus which stores image data received from the user via a network in a memory sets a representation effect used to disclose image data. The server apparatus creates page information for displaying the image data with the representation effect, and notifies a third party of the URL of the page information. The third party can browse the image data with the representation effect on the basis of the URL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chikara Morisada, Shigeyuki Mitani
  • Patent number: 6886028
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is a reduction of the communications exchanged by a WWW server and a client computer in order to reduce communication costs and to improve the responses by a user interface. For this, a printing control apparatus comprises means for obtaining print setup information from a WWW server and storing it, and for transmitting print request information to the WWW server via a network. But before that means is used to communicate with the WWW server, the print request information is generated based on the obtained print setup information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoichi Matsuyama, Shigeyuki Mitani
  • Publication number: 20030220995
    Abstract: Upon transferring image data stored in a first information processing apparatus (photo site) to a second information processing apparatus (print site), at least one of information that pertains to whether or not the image data is to be acquired by the second information processing apparatus, information that pertains to whether or not the image data has already been acquired by the second information processing apparatus, and information that pertains to the number of times of acquisition of the image data by the second information processing apparatus is managed, and whether or not unwanted image data is transferred to the second information processing apparatus, and whether or not image data illicitly leaks to the second information processing apparatus are monitored on the basis of the managed information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2003
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosato Hitaka, Akihiro Masukawa, Hiroshi Satomi, Kenji Kasai, Yoichi Matsuyama, Shigeyuki Mitani, Koichiro Tanaka, Satoshi Watanabe, Tomonobu Hiraishi
  • Patent number: 6654135
    Abstract: A printing control system utilizes the resources of the printer system effectively when the documentary image is printed including images. The format is used, in which image information is managed and controlled in a plurality of resolutions, as well as by a plurality of tile information. Such format is also effectively utilized. To this end, the printing control system includes the image server that supplies and/or controls image information, the print server that controls the output processes, the print controller that controls a plurality of print servers, and also controls the output processes, and the network that connects these constituents. It is made possible to determine the print server that executes the image output on the basis of the designated order of priorities. The image information is transmitted together with the print order, which are synthesized again on the designated print server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigeyuki Mitani
  • Publication number: 20030184791
    Abstract: A printing control system utilizes the resources of the printer system effectively when the documentary image is printed including images. The format is used, in which image information is managed and controlled in a plurality of resolutions, as well as by a plurality of tile information. Such format is also effectively utilized. To this end, the printing control system comprises the image server that supplies and/or controls image information, the print server that controls the output processes, the print controller that controls a plurality of print servers, and also controls the output processes, and the net work that connects these constituents. It is made possible to determine the print server that executes the image output on the basis of the designated order of priorities. The image information is transmitted together with the print order, which are synthesized again on the designated print server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 1998
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventor: SHIGEYUKI MITANI
  • Patent number: 5210740
    Abstract: A terminal adapter portion sends and receives data of a data processing unit such as a data terminal device and information of a control portion through an ISDN line. The control portion responds to an externally supplied switching instruction to send switching instruction information to another line switching equipment or receive the information therefrom, through the ISDN line and to control a switching portion. The switching portion switches the data terminal device to either a personal line or the ISDN line depending upon the switching instruction. With this construction, it is possible to perform line switching control of two mutually opposing line switching equipments from either of them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1993
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takeo Anzai, Shigeyuki Mitani, Tomohiro Kuroda