Patents by Inventor Shuichi Takenaka

Shuichi Takenaka 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: 20240143965
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that includes a sheet feeding unit and forms an image on a sheet fed from the sheet feeding unit. Electronic data item is acquired from a cloud service that manages a plurality of electronic data items. A sheet size is extracted from the electronic data item. An image of the electronic data item is formed on a sheet having the extracted sheet size. In a case where predetermined attribute information indicating a job using the cloud service is included in the electronic data item, the image of the electronic data item, appropriate to a sheet fed from the sheet feeding unit, is formed on the fed sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: SHUICHI TAKENAKA
  • Publication number: 20230336669
    Abstract: A notification system that is capable of sending a message to a person who is highly related to the message. The notification system includes an image pickup unit that picks up an image including a person as an object, an obtainment unit that obtains a role of the person in the image based on the image picked up by the image pickup unit, a determination unit that determines a content of a message about a predetermined event corresponding to the role obtained by the obtainment unit, and a notification unit that notifies of the message determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: RYOSUKE KASAHARA, SHUICHI TAKENAKA
  • Patent number: 11754961
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding unit storing a sheet, an image forming unit, a display unit, and one or more processors. The image forming unit forms an image on the sheet conveyed from the sheet feeding unit. The display unit displays a screen. The one or more processors perform control to cause the display unit to display a first sheet setting screen for setting sheet information about the sheet feeding unit on which a predetermined operation is performed based on the performance of the predetermined operation on the sheet feeding unit while a setting screen that prompts a user to make a copy-related setting is displayed. Where the predetermined operation is performed while a second sheet setting screen for setting sheet information about the sheet feeding unit is displayed, the one or more processors cause the display unit not to display the first sheet setting screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shuichi Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20230208985
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method of controlling an information processing apparatus comprises receiving identification information of a first message from a server providing a chat function, obtaining the first message identified by using the identification information, and generating a file in a predetermined format based on information of the first message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventor: SHUICHI TAKENAKA
  • Patent number: 11494135
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes one or more processors configured to perform operations including receiving information indicating a predetermined object from an image forming apparatus, determining whether the object indicated by the information is included in image data for which a printing instruction has been issued by a user, designating a format of the image data, to be transmitted to the image forming apparatus, based on a result of the determining, converting the image data into the designated format, and transmitting the converted image data to the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shuichi Takenaka
  • Patent number: 11340842
    Abstract: A server system includes a determination unit configured to determine whether received print data is print data for which a predetermined print setting is made, an acquisition unit configured to acquire first print data from another server system, the first print data being determined to be print data for which the predetermined print setting is made by the determination unit, a first transmission unit configured to transmit the first print data acquired by the acquisition unit to an image forming apparatus, and a control unit configured to control the image forming apparatus to acquire second print data from the other server system without acquiring the second print data determined to be print data for which the predetermined print setting is not made by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shuichi Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20210405937
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes one or more processors configured to perform operations including receiving information indicating a predetermined object from an image forming apparatus, determining whether the object indicated by the information is included in image data for which a printing instruction has been issued by a user, designating a format of the image data, to be transmitted to the image forming apparatus, based on a result of the determining, converting the image data into the designated format, and transmitting the converted image data to the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Shuichi Takenaka
  • Patent number: 11169750
    Abstract: In order to enable print setting that depends on functional characteristics of a printing apparatus also in printing processing that depends on an instruction from a client device that has not installed a printer driver of the printing apparatus, an information processing device includes setting management unit configured to transmit information on a print settings screen of the printing apparatus and display the print settings screen on a display of the information processing device, a reception unit configured to receive information on print settings of the printing apparatus, which is input on the print settings screen, from the information processing device, a storage unit configured to store the print settings into a memory unit in association with the information processing device, and a printing control unit configured to execute printing processing based on the print settings when print data is received from the information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuichi Takenaka, Kiichi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11151430
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that prevents, when reducing variation in thickness of thin lines, the legibility of the thin lines from being adversely affected thereby. When print data is acquired, in a rendering process for printing based on the acquired print data, the rendering process including a line width adjustment process is executed. In a case where the line width adjustment process is executed on the print data, not only the line width adjustment process but also a process for thickening thin lines is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromi Kimura, Shuichi Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20210318654
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding unit storing a sheet, an image forming unit, a display unit, and one or more processors. The image forming unit forms an image on the sheet conveyed from the sheet feeding unit. The display unit displays a screen. The one or more processors perform control to cause the display unit to display a first sheet setting screen for setting sheet information about the sheet feeding unit on which a predetermined operation is performed based on the performance of the predetermined operation on the sheet feeding unit while a setting screen that prompts a user to make a copy-related setting is displayed. Where the predetermined operation is performed while a second sheet setting screen for setting sheet information about the sheet feeding unit is displayed, the one or more processors cause the display unit not to display the first sheet setting screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventor: Shuichi Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20210157532
    Abstract: A server system includes a determination unit configured to determine whether received print data is print data for which a predetermined print setting is made, an acquisition unit configured to acquire first print data from another server system, the first print data being determined to be print data for which the predetermined print setting is made by the determination unit, a first transmission unit configured to transmit the first print data acquired by the acquisition unit to an image forming apparatus, and a control unit configured to control the image forming apparatus to acquire second print data from the other server system without acquiring the second print data determined to be print data for which the predetermined print setting is not made by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventor: Shuichi Takenaka
  • Patent number: 10885409
    Abstract: In processing using a print data processing apparatus that parallelly interprets pages of print data, in the case where a command to reset the number of already interpreted pages is included in the print data, a certain page to be printed is not printed. In the case of detecting a command to invalidate contents interpreted hitherto, an interpreter stores the number of already interpreted pages at the time in point of the detection of the invalidation command in a cache. Then, the interpreter generates intermediate data in the case where the sum of the cached value and the number of already interpreted pages managed by the interpreter coincides with a processing-target page number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuichi Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20200364005
    Abstract: In order to enable print setting that depends on functional characteristics of a printing apparatus also in printing processing that depends on an instruction from a client device that has not installed a printer driver of the printing apparatus, an information processing device includes setting management unit configured to transmit information on a print settings screen of the printing apparatus and display the print settings screen on a display of the information processing device, a reception unit configured to receive information on print settings of the printing apparatus, which is input on the print settings screen, from the information processing device, a storage unit configured to store the print settings into a memory unit in association with the information processing device, and a printing control unit configured to execute printing processing based on the print settings when print data is received from the information processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Shuichi Takenaka, Kiichi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10785377
    Abstract: Restriction processing for restricting communication with the network is executed, and a screen for starting establishment of a connection relationship in a state in which the restriction processing is executed is displayed on a display device. A connection relationship with a mobile terminal is established without intervention of the access point of the external apparatus using a wireless LAN interface capable of performing wireless communication, and predetermined information is acquired from the mobile terminal via the wireless LAN interface after establishment of the connection relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shuichi Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20200293843
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that prevents, when reducing variation in thickness of thin lines, the legibility of the thin lines from being adversely affected thereby. When print data is acquired, in a rendering process for printing based on the acquired print data, the rendering process including a line width adjustment process is executed. In a case where the line width adjustment process is executed on the print data, not only the line width adjustment process but also a process for thickening thin lines is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Hiromi Kimura, Shuichi Takenaka
  • Patent number: 10681241
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a wireless interface configured to perform communication with an image forming apparatus, and at least one controller configured to function as a unit configured to acquire device information of the image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus through the wireless interface, and a unit configured to selectively accept one of a first instruction to transmit the acquired device information to an external destination and a second instruction not to transmit the acquired device information to the external destination. The controller also functions as a unit configured to transmit, in a state where the first instruction has been accepted, the acquired device information to the external destination, and hold, in a state where the second instruction has been accepted, the acquired device information without transmitting the acquired device information to the external destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuichi Takenaka
  • Patent number: 10534986
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a first interpretation unit configured to generate intermediate data of a page by interpreting print data, a second interpretation unit configured to generate intermediate data of another page by interpreting the print data, and a controller configured to perform, according to a specific print setting command indicating that a specific process is to be performed on all pages, control such that the specific process is performed on all the pages. The controller performs the control if the specific print setting command is included in a specific page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuichi Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20190306365
    Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires device information of an image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus. A first acceptance unit selectively accepts one of an instruction to transmit the device information to an external unit and an instruction to hold the device information in the information processing apparatus. A transmission control unit transmits, if the first acceptance unit accepts the instruction to transmit the device information to the external unit, the device information to the external unit, and hold, if the first acceptance unit accepts the instruction to hold the device information in the information processing apparatus, the device information in the information processing apparatus without transmitting the device information to the external unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventor: Shuichi Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20190306336
    Abstract: Restriction processing for restricting communication with the network is executed, and a screen for starting establishment of a connection relationship in a state in which the restriction processing is executed is displayed on a display device. A connection relationship with a mobile terminal is established without intervention of the access point of the external apparatus using a wireless LAN interface capable of performing wireless communication, and predetermined information is acquired from the mobile terminal via the wireless LAN interface after establishment of the connection relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventor: Shuichi Takenaka
  • Patent number: 10430132
    Abstract: A communication terminal and a method of controlling thereof are provided for setting user information that includes at least a user name and a domain name, and transmitting a print job to which the user information is given to an image forming apparatus. Then, when logging in to the image forming apparatus by using the user information, based on whether the image forming apparatus is under domain management, it is determined whether or not to include information concerning a domain name in a login request for the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuichi Takenaka