Patents by Inventor Takahiro Moro

Takahiro Moro 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).

  • Patent number: 8120792
    Abstract: When a user enters control information for controlling a printing device, the information is stored in a user information storage unit. All combinations of items of the control information capable of being set by the user and values of items incapable of being set by the user, these having been selected so as to be the optimum values for the combinations, are stored as preset values in a combined information storage unit. An information storage unit compares a value in the user information storage unit with a value in the combined information storage unit. If a combination for which agreement is achieved is found in the combined information storage unit, this value is stored in a printing information storage unit and transmitted to the printing device. Thus, an optimum value can be selected and sent to the printing device even with regard to an item incapable of being selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Moro, Koji Yamada
  • Publication number: 20110149329
    Abstract: When a user enters control information for controlling a printing device, the information is stored in a user information storage unit. All combinations of items of the control information capable of being set by the user and values of items incapable of being set by the user, these having been selected so as to be the optimum values for the combinations, are stored as preset values in a combined information storage unit. An information storage unit compares a value in the user information storage unit with a value in the combined information storage unit. If a combination for which agreement is achieved is found in the combined information storage unit, this value is stored in a printing information storage unit and transmitted to the printing device. Thus, an optimum value can be selected and sent to the printing device even with regard to an item incapable of being selected by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro MORO, Koji YAMADA
  • Patent number: 7920290
    Abstract: When a user enters control information for controlling a printing device, the information is stored in a user information storage unit. All combinations of items of the control information capable of being set by the user and values of items incapable of being set by the user, these having been selected so as to be the optimum values for the combinations, are stored as preset values in a combined information storage unit. An information storage unit compares a value in the user information storage unit with a value in the combined information storage unit. If a combination for which agreement is achieved is found in the combined information storage unit, this value is stored in a printing information storage unit and transmitted to the printing device. Thus, an optimum value can be selected and sent to the printing device even with regard to an item incapable of being selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Moro, Koiji Yamada
  • Publication number: 20080273216
    Abstract: When a user enters control information for controlling a printing device, the information is stored in a user information storage unit. All combinations of items of the control information capable of being set by the user and values of items incapable of being set by the user, these having been selected so as to be the optimum values for the combinations, are stored as preset values in a combined information storage unit. An information storage unit compares a value in the user information storage unit with a value in the combined information storage unit. If a combination for which agreement is achieved is found in the combined information storage unit, this value is stored in a printing information storage unit and transmitted to the printing device. Thus, an optimum value can be selected and sent to the printing device even with regard to an item incapable of being selected by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro MORO, Koji YAMADA
  • Patent number: 7408674
    Abstract: When a user enters control information for controlling a printing device, the information is stored in a user information storage unit. All combinations of items of the control information capable of being set by the user and values of items incapable of being set by the user, these having been selected so as to be the optimum values for the combinations, are stored as preset values in a combined information storage unit. An information storage unit compares a value in the user information storage unit with a value in the combined information storage unit. If a combination for which agreement is achieved is found in the combined information storage unit, this value is stored in a printing information storage unit and transmitted to the printing device. Thus, an optimum value can be selected and sent to the printing device even with regard to an item incapable of being selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Moro, Koji Yamada
  • Patent number: 7393542
    Abstract: An agent for treating or preventing allergic disease comprising, as an active ingredient, a treated product of peanut seed coats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Inventors: Akio Yoshihara, Tomihisa Ohta, Takahiro Moro, Kaoru Hirose
  • Patent number: 7268897
    Abstract: In this invention, when a printer driver uses data obtained by referring to a table, the printer driver searches a first table of two, first and second tables to obtain a search condition of the second table. The printer driver searches the second table using the obtained search condition to obtain required data. When another search condition is added, the search condition is added to the first able, and data corresponding to the added search condition is added to the second table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Moro, Masahiro Nagatani, Kazuyoshi Sumiuchi, Takeshi Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20040247712
    Abstract: This invention relates to an agent for treating or preventing allergic disease comprising, as an active ingredient, a treated product of peanut seed coats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Akio Yoshihara, Tomihisa Ohta, Takahiro Moro, Kaoru Hirose
  • Publication number: 20040051891
    Abstract: When a user enters control information for controlling a printing device, the information is stored in a user information storage unit. All combinations of items of the control information capable of being set by the user and values of items incapable of being set by the user, these having been selected so as to be the optimum values for the combinations, are stored as preset values in a combined information storage unit. An information storage unit compares a value in the user information storage unit with a value in the combined information storage unit. If a combination for which agreement is achieved is found in the combined information storage unit, this value is stored in a printing information storage unit and transmitted to the printing device. Thus, an optimum value can be selected and sent to the printing device even with regard to an item incapable of being selected by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Moro, Koji Yamada
  • Patent number: 6704122
    Abstract: When a user enters control information for controlling a printing device, the information is stored in a user information storage unit. All combinations of items of the control information capable of being set by the user and values of items incapable of being set by the user, these having been selected so as to be the optimum values for the combinations, are stored as preset values in a combined information storage unit. An information storage unit compares a value in the user information storage unit with a value in the combined information storage unit. If a combination for which agreement is achieved is found in the combined information storage unit, this value is stored in a printing information storage unit and transmitted to the printing device. Thus, an optimum value can be selected and sent to the printing device even with regard to an item incapable of being selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Moro, Koji Yamada
  • Patent number: 6693731
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus having a first black generating unit for generating a black component from input image data of signals representative of a plurality of color components, a color correcting unit for correcting the colors of the signals representative of the plurality of color components and a signal representative of the black component and outputting the color corrected signals representative of the plurality of color components, and a second black generating unit for generating a signal representative of a black component from the color corrected signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuo Ohnuma, Takatoshi Ohta, Yuji Akiyama, Yoko Hirosugi, Takahiro Moro, Masahiro Nagatani, Kazuyoshi Sumiuchi
  • Patent number: 6609775
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a recording apparatus which has recording sheet discriminating means for discriminating a kind of the recording sheet to be supplied to the recording means, a printer driver for controlling a recording operation of the recording means on the basis of recording sheet an information of conforming to the kind of the recording sheet discriminated by the recording sheet discriminating means, judging means for judging whether the recording sheet of which the kind has been discriminated by the recording sheet discriminating means is included in of a preset specific kind recording sheet, and recording sheet information inputting means for inputting the information of the recording sheet to be supplied to the recording means when it is judged by the judging means that the recording sheet of which the kind has been discriminated is not included in the specific kind of recording sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Moro, Takeshi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 6574010
    Abstract: An image processor includes an input unit which inputs color image data, and a color correction unit which effects under color removal processing and black generation processing on the color image data conforming to the characteristic of a recording medium, and outputs data indicative of a plurality of color components including a black component. The color correction unit effects the under color removal processing and the black generation processing so that the total output level of the data indicative of the plurality of color components including the black component may assume a value conforming to the color image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuo Ohnuma, Takatoshi Ohta, Yuji Akiyama, Yoko Hirosugi, Takahiro Moro, Masahiro Nagatani, Kazuyoshi Sumiuchi
  • Publication number: 20020089683
    Abstract: When a user enters control information for controlling a printing device, the information is stored in a user information storage unit. All combinations of items of the control information capable of being set by the user and values of items incapable of being set by the user, these having been selected so as to be the optimum values for the combinations, are stored as preset values in a combined information storage unit. An information storage unit compares a value in the user information storage unit with a value in the combined information storage unit. If a combination for which agreement is achieved is found in the combined information storage unit, this value is stored in a printing information storage unit and transmitted to the printing device. Thus, an optimum value can be selected and sent to the printing device even with regard to an item incapable of being selected by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Inventors: Takahiro Moro, Koji Yamada
  • Patent number: 6327051
    Abstract: When a user enters control information for controlling a printing device, the information is stored in a user information storage unit. All combinations of items of the control information capable of being set by the user and values of items incapable of being set by the user, these having been selected so as to be the optimum values for the combinations, are stored as preset values in a combined information storage unit. An information storage unit compares a value in the user information storage unit with a value in the combined information storage unit. If a combination for which agreement is achieved is found in the combined information storage unit, this value is stored in a printing information storage unit and transmitted to the printing device. Thus, an optimum value can be selected and sent to the printing device even with regard to an item incapable of being selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Moro, Koji Yamada
  • Patent number: 5748788
    Abstract: A noise reduction apparatus in which decoded image data is input to a block division circuit which divides the input image into blocks each consisting of N.times.N pixels. A process block determination circuit determines the presence/absence of an edge from estimated values of four corner points of an objective block divided by the block division circuit. The process block determination circuit determines the size of a process block in accordance with the determination result. A linear interpolation circuit performs linear interpolation of the process block determined by the process block determination circuit, and outputs corrected image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Cannon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takahiro Moro
  • Patent number: 5748772
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus of a digital copying machine, a digital facsimile, or a printer comprises an input unit to input multi-level data; an arithmetic operating circuit for adding error data to the input multi-level data and for calculating error correction data; a selector to select a predetermined dot pattern on the basis of the error correction data; an error calculation circuit to calculate a difference between the representative value for each dot pattern and the error correction data; a storage memory for storing the difference as error data into a memory; and a dot pattern memory in which dot patterns corresponding to a plurality of colors have been stored. The input unit inputs multi-level image data of a plurality of colors and the selector selects the dot pattern whose dot arrangement differs in accordance with the color of the multi-level image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Moro, Katsumi Masaki, Ken Onodera, Takafumi Sawaki, Atsushi Ushiroda
  • Patent number: 5638188
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus of a digital copying apparatus, digital facsimile, printer, or the like comprises an input unit to input multi-level data, an arithmetic operation circuit for adding error data to the input multi-level data and calculating error correction data, a selector to select a predetermined dot pattern on the basis of the error correction data, an error calculation circuit to calculate a difference between a representative value for each dot pattern and the error correction data; and a storing circuit for storing the difference as error data into a memory. The selector comprises a level classification threshold value storage memory in which threshold values to classify the error correction data into levels have been stored, and a data level determination circuit for classifying the error correction data into levels on the basis of the value of the error correction data and the value stored in the level classification threshold value storage memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Moro, Katsumi Masaki, Takafumi Sawaki, Atsushi Ushiroda