Patents by Inventor Susumu Sugiura
Susumu Sugiura 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: 6804016Abstract: There is disclosed a control apparatus for a scanner/printer including a unit for generating print data described in a page description language, a unit for generating a command regarding a scanner for scanning an original image, and a unit for producing the print data and the command regarding the scanner to a common device through a network.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 1997Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiko Hashimoto, Susumu Sugiura, Yoshikazu Yokomizo, Yoshinobu Mita, Makoto Takaoka, Mitsumasa Sugiyama, Shigetada Kobayashi, Junichi Shishizuka, Tsutomu Negishi, Osamu Yamada, Yukari Toda, Kazuhiro Saito, Masanari Toda, Yasuo Fukuda
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Patent number: 6515758Abstract: A printer server connectable to a plurality of printers includes a receiver for receiving print data from an external apparatus, a first discrimination unit for discriminating a representation by which the received print data is described, and a selection unit for selecting, from the plurality of printers, a printer to print an image corresponding to the received print data. A second discrimination unit of the printer server discriminates whether the selected printer is capable of processing print data in the discriminated representation. When the selected printer is not capable of processing print data in the discriminated representation, a controller of the printer sever converts the received print data into print data in another representation and transmits the print data in the other representation. The controller transmits print data in the discriminated representation when the selected printer is capable of processing print data in the discriminated representation.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1999Date of Patent: February 4, 2003Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toyokazu Uda, Susumu Sugiura, Makoto Takaoka, Shigetada Kobayashi
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Patent number: 6476924Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to output a color-designated character code or line drawing to a visual image output device by efficiently and rapidly converting the character code or line drawing into color space data which depends on the visual image output device. To achieve this object, a code based on PDL is transmitted when document image data formed by, e.g., desk top publishing is output to a visual image output device such as a color printer. If the received code is a character or a graphic, R, G, and B color codes contained in the code are converted into Y, M, and C data. All significant bits of data, having one bit per dot, generated on the basis of the character code, are converted by the Y, M, and C data at once.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1995Date of Patent: November 5, 2002Inventors: Yukari Toda, Susumu Sugiura, Kazuhiro Saito
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Publication number: 20020012453Abstract: There is disclosed a control apparatus for a scanner/printer comprising a unit for generating print data described in a page description language, a unit for generating a command regarding a scanner for scanning an original image, and a unit for producing the print data and the command regarding the scanner to a common device through a network.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 1997Publication date: January 31, 2002Inventors: YASUHIKO HASHIMOTO, SUSUMU SUGIURA, YOSHIKAZU YOKOMIZO, YOSHINOBU MITA, MAKOTO TAKAOKA, MITSUMASA SUGIYAMA, SHIGETADA KOBAYSHI, SHIGETADA KOBAYSHI, JUNICHI SHISHIZUKA, TSUTOMU NEGISHI, OSAMU YAMADA, YUKARI TODA, KAZUHIRO SAITO, MASANRI TODA, FUKUDA YASUO
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Patent number: 6321266Abstract: An input/output apparatus is connected to a plurality of host computers via a network and executes both a scanning function and a printing function. The apparatus includes a portion that generates image data from data input from a first one of the host computers and prints the generated image data by executing the printing function, and further includes an output device that scans image data by executing the scanning function and outputs the scanned image data to a second one of the host computers in response to a request command. As a result, the input/output apparatus may operate in coordination with a plurality of personal computers by using the network to transfer image data therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1996Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshikazu Yokomizo, Susumu Sugiura, Yoshinobu Mita, Makoto Takaoka, Mitsumasa Sugiyama, Shigetada Kobayashi, Junichi Shishizuka, Tsutomu Negishi, Osamu Yamada, Yukari Toda, Kazuhiro Saito, Masanari Toda, Yasuhiko Hashimoto, Yasuo Fukuda
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Publication number: 20010040689Abstract: A variety of parameters for a scanner printer are set from a host computer on a network by arranging a scanner printer server system composed of the host computer and the scanner printer server connected to the network, and a scanner and a printer connected to the scanner printer. The scanner printer server system has a bidirectional communication channel formed between the scanner, the printer and the scanner printer server, wherein characters, graphics and a method of transferring image are instructed from the host computer and the data is transferred by the instructed transference method.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 1999Publication date: November 15, 2001Inventors: TOYOKAZU UDA, SUSUMU SUGIURA, MAKOTO TAKAOKA, SHIGETADA KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 6282314Abstract: An object of the invention is to convert multivalue image data to data in a format which can be easily handled. For such an object, the multivalue image data of each pixel is inputted and an image expressed by the multivalue image data is converted to data which is hierarchically structured to a plurality of layers.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 1995Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Susumu Sugiura, Takeshi Makita, Mitsuru Maeda, Osamu Yamada, Hiroshi Mori
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Patent number: 6222950Abstract: An image processing method is disclosed in which a pattern for detecting a line image is compared with the value of image data within a predetermined window of the original image. N-value data is transformed to M-value data based on the result of this comparison. An image can thus be satisfactorily M-value coded without being adversely affected by noise.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1995Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Susumu Sugiura, Yoshinobu Mita
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Patent number: 6210137Abstract: A scroll fluid machine having a lubrication pump provided between sliding contact surfaces of an orbiting scroll member and a thrust bearing in a casing. The pump has an orbiting member accommodating recess provided in the sliding contact surface of the thrust bearing. An orbiting member projects from the sliding contact surface of the orbiting scroll member into the recess. A slide plate defines a suction chamber and a discharge chamber in the recess. As the orbiting scroll member orbits, the orbiting member orbits in the recess, causing a lubricant contained in the casing to be sucked from a suction passage and delivered to the inside of a boss portion accommodating an orbiting bearing.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Tokico Ltd.Inventors: Yoshio Kobayashi, Susumu Sugiura, Kiminori Iwano, Yasuhiko Sekino, Katsushi Hidano, Susumu Sakamoto, Junichi Nagasawa, Toshitsugu Suzuki
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Patent number: 6177934Abstract: A system enables the reading characteristic of an image reader in a network to be recognized by a host computer. The SP server device transfers the reading characteristics of a plurality of scanner printers to a designated client host computer and through a network.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1994Date of Patent: January 23, 2001Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Susumu Sugiura, Yoshikazu Yokomizo, Yoshinobu Mita, Makoto Takaoka, Mitsumasa Sugiyama, Shigetada Kobayashi, Junichi Shishizuka, Tsutomu Negishi, Osamu Yamada, Yukari Toda, Kazuhiro Saito, Masanari Toda, Yasuhiko Hashimoto, Yasuo Fukuda
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Patent number: 6041144Abstract: In an image processing apparatus and method, a color copying interface supports unique compression mode and standard compression mode. If a color work station accepts only data compressed in the standard mode, unique-mode compressed data is converted to standard-mode compressed data, and then the standard-mode compressed data is transmitted together with a compression parameter to the partner computer. The amount of input data is counted by a counter, and the amount of compressed data stored in a compression memory is counted by another counter. Compression parameters used by a compression circuit are selected based on the count values of the two counters.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1992Date of Patent: March 21, 2000Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Susumu Sugiura
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Patent number: 5999644Abstract: Image processing apparatus and method perform a predetermined compression processing for an input original. A compression processing method or a receiver of compressed data is changed in accordance with a color/black-and-white status discrimination for the input original, or is set manually.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1997Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Susumu Sugiura
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Patent number: 5996029Abstract: There is disclosed an information input/output control device and a method therefor which displays a list of identification informations indicating an information terminal device with which a functional operation can be executed in response to an acquired environmental information of the information terminal device and in accordance with an input of an indication information which instruct to execute the functional operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1996Date of Patent: November 30, 1999Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsumasa Sugiyama, Susumu Sugiura, Yoshikazu Yokomizo, Yoshinobu Mita, Makoto Takaoka, Shigetada Kobayashi, Junichi Shishizuka, Tsutomu Negishi, Osamu Yamada, Yukari Toda, Kazuhiro Saito, Masanari Toda, Yasuhiko Hashimoto, Yasuo Fukuda
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Patent number: 5933580Abstract: A variety of parameters for a scanner printer are set from a host computer on a network by arranging a scanner printer server system composed of the host computer and the scanner printer server connected to the network, and a scanner and a printer connected to the scanner printer. The scanner printer server system has a bidirectional communication channel formed between the scanner, the printer and the scanner printer server, wherein characters, graphics and a method of transferring image are instructed from the host computer and the data is transferred by the instructed transference method.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1992Date of Patent: August 3, 1999Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toyokazu Uda, Susumu Sugiura, Makoto Takaoka, Shigetada Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5907835Abstract: There is disclosed an electronic filing apparatus which allows to handle files, prepared by different application programs, as the files common to these programs in easy and inexpensive manner. The drawing information, transmitted from each application program activatable by the computer system, is converted into a predetermined print data format, defined by the operating system, by the printer driver. Then the QuickDraw-common document conversion device converts the print data, converted into the predetermined print data format, into the common document file format which can be directly referred to by the plural application programs, and the common document in thus converted common document file format is stored in the data base.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1995Date of Patent: May 25, 1999Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshikazu Yokomizo, Susumu Sugiura, Mitsumasa Sugiyama
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Patent number: 5859956Abstract: There is disclosed an information device and an information processing method which determine whether a control code constituting a document information is processable or not, transfer the document information to the other information processing device connected with the information processing device when the control code was determined to be unprocessable, and has the other information processing device executed as proxy for the original information processing device to produce an output information from the document information.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1997Date of Patent: January 12, 1999Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsumasa Sugiyama, Susumu Sugiura, Yoshikazu Yokomizo, Yoshinobu Mita, Makoto Takaoka, Shigetada Kobayashi, Junichi Shishizuka, Tsutomu Negishi, Osamu Yamada, Yukari Toda, Kazuhiro Saito, Masanari Toda, Yasuhiko Hashimoto, Yasuo Fukuda
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Patent number: 5841904Abstract: In coding color still image data into multi-valued image data, the image quality deteriorates when a large compression ratio is used. In the present invention, a transmitted image is classified using a parameter transmitted from the transmitting station, and the deterioration of image quality caused by compression at the transmitting station is estimated from the image classification. In an image reproduction, a quantization table is used in the case of an adaptive discrete cosine transform (ADCT) method to select an optimum neural network suitable for image reproduction and improve the image quality.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1995Date of Patent: November 24, 1998Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Susumu Sugiura
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Patent number: 5832132Abstract: Use is made of a neural network in order to restore a binary image to an original multi-level image, by way of example. Using the neural network makes it possible to raise the accuracy of restoration and the speed of processing.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1995Date of Patent: November 3, 1998Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yukari Shimomura, Susumu Sugiura, Takeshi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5822507Abstract: A variety of parameters for a scanner printer are set from a host computer on a network by arranging a scanner printer server system composed of the host computer and the scanner printer server connected to the network, and a scanner and a printer connected to the scanner printer. The scanner printer server system has a bidirectional communication channel formed between the scanner, the printer and the scanner printer server, wherein characters, graphics and a method of transferring image are instructed from the host computer and the data is transferred by the instructed transference method.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 1995Date of Patent: October 13, 1998Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toyokazu Uda, Susumu Sugiura, Makoto Takaoka, Shigetada Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5761394Abstract: The invention concerns a color image communication apparatus, which comprises scan conversion means for converting n-level image data received in a raster scan system via a communication line to data in a shuttle scan system, multi-level conversion means for converting color n-level data obtained from the scan conversion means for multi-level data, and color conversion means for converting color characteristics of multi-level data obtained from the multi-level conversion means from color characteristics for a communication line to color characteristics of output color recording means.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 1996Date of Patent: June 2, 1998Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Susumu Sugiura, Yoshinobu Mita, Makoto Takaoka, Junichi Shishizuka, Yukari Shimomura, Kentaro Matsumoto, Toyokazu Uda, Mitsumasa Sugiyama, Shigetada Kobayashi, Katsutoshi Hisada, Yoji Kaneko, Hiroyuki Nakanishi