Patents by Inventor Takeru Imamura

Takeru Imamura 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: 20240105643
    Abstract: A circuit board on which a first semiconductor device or a second semiconductor device which is different from the first semiconductor device is exclusively mounted, wherein the circuit board comprises a region in which a component configured to form a circuit for achieving a function incorporated in the first semiconductor device but not incorporated in the second semiconductor device is to be mounted, and wherein the component is prevented from being mounted in the region in a case where the first semiconductor device is mounted, and the component is mounted in the region in a case where the second semiconductor device is mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: TAKERU IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230393794
    Abstract: A method for controlling an image forming system includes a shifting process in which a wireless operation unit from a sleep state to a ready state; a connection process in which the wireless operation unit connects individually to each of a first image forming apparatus and a second image forming apparatus via wireless communication without a wireless LAN router in response to the shift of the wireless operation unit to the ready state in the shifting process; and a display process in which the touch panel display displays, side by side, a first return icon to return the first image forming apparatus to a ready state and a second return icon to return the second image forming apparatus to a ready state in response to the execution of wireless communication in the connection process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventor: Takeru IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 11762614
    Abstract: A method for controlling an image forming system includes a shifting process in which a wireless operation unit from a sleep state to a ready state; a connection process in which the wireless operation unit connects individually to each of a first image forming apparatus and a second image forming apparatus via wireless communication without a wireless LAN router in response to the shift of the wireless operation unit to the ready state in the shifting process; and a display process in which the touch panel display displays, side by side, a first return icon to return the first image forming apparatus to a ready state and a second return icon to return the second image forming apparatus to a ready state in response to the execution of wireless communication in the connection process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeru Imamura
  • Publication number: 20230247160
    Abstract: A remote operation apparatus including a setting unit configured to set whether or not to restrict connection between an image forming apparatus and another remote operation apparatus other than a remote operation apparatus, and a control unit configured to give an instruction to restrict the connection between the image forming apparatus and the another remote operation apparatus before causing the image forming apparatus to form an image in a case where restriction of the connection between the image forming apparatus and the another remote operation apparatus is set by the setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventor: Takeru Imamura
  • Publication number: 20230014938
    Abstract: A method for controlling an image forming system includes a shifting process in which a wireless operation unit from a sleep state to a ready state; a connection process in which the wireless operation unit connects individually to each of a first image forming apparatus and a second image forming apparatus via wireless communication without a wireless LAN router in response to the shift of the wireless operation unit to the ready state in the shifting process; and a display process in which the touch panel display displays, side by side, a first return icon to return the first image forming apparatus to a ready state and a second return icon to return the second image forming apparatus to a ready state in response to the execution of wireless communication in the connection process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventor: Takeru IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 11487490
    Abstract: A method for controlling an image forming system includes a shifting process in which a wireless operation unit from a sleep state to a ready state; a connection process in which the wireless operation unit connects individually to each of a first image forming apparatus and a second image forming apparatus via wireless communication without a wireless LAN router in response to the shift of the wireless operation unit to the ready state in the shifting process; and a display process in which the touch panel display displays, side by side, a first return icon to return the first image forming apparatus to a ready state and a second return icon to return the second image forming apparatus to a ready state in response to the execution of wireless communication in the connection process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeru Imamura
  • Publication number: 20220229618
    Abstract: A method for controlling an image forming system includes a shifting process in which a wireless operation unit from a sleep state to a ready state; a connection process in which the wireless operation unit connects individually to each of a first image forming apparatus and a second image forming apparatus via wireless communication without a wireless LAN router in response to the shift of the wireless operation unit to the ready state in the shifting process; and a display process in which the touch panel display displays, side by side, a first return icon to return the first image forming apparatus to a ready state and a second return icon to return the second image forming apparatus to a ready state in response to the execution of wireless communication in the connection process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventor: Takeru IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 10965122
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a fan, a plurality of power supply units, and a reception unit. The plurality of power supply units supplies power to the fan. The reception unit receives, from the fan, a signal indicating a state of the fan. At least one of the plurality of power supply units that supplies power to the fan also supplies power to the reception unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeru Imamura
  • Patent number: 10853205
    Abstract: If a storage device B that is a target of rebuild processing is an SSD, in the rebuild processing, a RAID controller copies system data of the image forming apparatus to the storage device B after copying to the storage device B data other than the system data out of data stored in a storage device A. Accordingly, it is possible to copy the system data from the storage device A to the storage device B after the temperature of the flash memory in the storage device B (SSD) has increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takehiro Ito, Takeru Imamura, Kohei Asano
  • Publication number: 20200203949
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a fan, a plurality of power supply units, and a reception unit. The plurality of power supply units supplies power to the fan. The reception unit receives, from the fan, a signal indicating a state of the fan. At least one of the plurality of power supply units that supplies power to the fan also supplies power to the reception unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventor: Takeru Imamura
  • Patent number: 10628718
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a temperature sensor, a holding unit that holds background temperature data that is obtained by the temperature sensor and indicates a temperature state in a surrounding of the image forming apparatus, an obtaining unit that obtains plural pieces of data generated by performing a calibration with respect to each of plural pieces of temperature data obtained by the temperature sensor after the background temperature data is held by the holding unit by using the background temperature data held by the holding unit, and a control unit that controls return of a state of the image forming apparatus from a power saving state based on the plural pieces of data obtained by the obtaining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeru Imamura
  • Publication number: 20200045196
    Abstract: In a case where a failure is detected in an information processing apparatus, power supplied to blocks other than a storage is turned off, and a load of a power supply unit for supplying power to each of the blocks is reduced. A period of time the power can be supplied to the storage is extended thereby, so that the time necessary for writing cache data into a main body of the storage can be secured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventor: Takeru Imamura
  • Patent number: 10442189
    Abstract: A printing apparatus having a first power state and a second power state, which saves more power than the first power state, includes a detection unit configured to detect a temperature around the printing apparatus, a holding unit configured to hold background temperature data indicating the temperature around the printing apparatus, a control unit configured to, based on the background temperature data held in the holding unit and temperature data detected by the detection unit, shift the printing apparatus from the second power state to the first power state, and an update unit configured to update the background temperature data held in the holding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeru Imamura
  • Patent number: 10397428
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an accepting unit to accept user operations to transition the apparatus from a standby state to a power save state; a detecting unit to detect objects around the apparatus; and a power control unit to transition the apparatus from the power save state to the standby state according to detection of an object by the detecting unit, and to transition the image forming apparatus from the standby state to the power save state according to user operations accepted at the accepting unit. The power control unit prohibits the apparatus from transitioning from the power save state to the standby state according to the detection of the object, until a user, which performed operations accepted by the accepting unit to transition the apparatus from the standby state to the power save state, thereafter ceases to be detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeru Imamura
  • Publication number: 20190018745
    Abstract: If a storage device B that is a target of rebuild processing is an SSD, in the rebuild processing, a RAID controller copies system data of the image forming apparatus to the storage device B after copying to the storage device B data other than the system data out of data stored in a storage device A. Accordingly, it is possible to copy the system data from the storage device A to the storage device B after the temperature of the flash memory in the storage device B (SSD) has increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Takehiro Ito, Takeru Imamura, Kohei Asano
  • Publication number: 20180316814
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an accepting unit to accept user operations to transition the apparatus from a standby state to a power save state; a detecting unit to detect objects around the apparatus; and a power control unit to transition the apparatus from the power save state to the standby state according to detection of an object by the detecting unit, and to transition the image forming apparatus from the standby state to the power save state according to user operations accepted at the accepting unit. The power control unit prohibits the apparatus from transitioning from the power save state to the standby state according to the detection of the object, until a user, which performed operations accepted by the accepting unit to transition the apparatus from the standby state to the power save state, thereafter ceases to be detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventor: Takeru Imamura
  • Patent number: 10038804
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an accepting unit to accept user operations to transition the apparatus from a standby state to a power save state; a detecting unit to detect objects around the apparatus; and a power control unit to transition the apparatus from the power save state to the standby state according to detection of an object by the detecting unit, and to transition the image forming apparatus from the standby state to the power save state according to user operations accepted at the accepting unit. The power control unit prohibits the apparatus from transitioning from the power save state to the standby state according to the detection of the object, until a user, which performed operations accepted by the accepting unit to transition the apparatus from the standby state to the power save state, thereafter ceases to be detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeru Imamura
  • Publication number: 20180203623
    Abstract: It is disclosed that an information processing apparatus has a first storage device mounted on a substrate of the apparatus, a connector provided on the substrate to which a storage device for adding on is connected, a change unit configured to change a storage device to use from the first storage device to a second storage device connected to the connector in a case where a total amount of data written to the first storage device exceeds a first threshold value, and a copy unit configured to, in a case where a total amount of data written to the second storage device exceeds a second threshold value, copy data stored in the second storage device to the first storage device for an exchange of the second storage device wherein the first threshold value is set to a value lower than the second threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventor: Takeru Imamura
  • Patent number: 9692924
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an accepting unit to accept user operations to transition the apparatus from a standby state to a power save state; a detecting unit to detect objects around the apparatus; and a power control unit to transition the apparatus from the power save state to the standby state according to detection of an object by the detecting unit, and to transition the image forming apparatus from the standby state to the power save state according to user operations accepted at the accepting unit. The power control unit prohibits the apparatus from transitioning from the power save state to the standby state according to the detection of the object, until a user, which performed operations accepted by the accepting unit to transition the apparatus from the standby state to the power save state, thereafter ceases to be detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeru Imamura
  • Publication number: 20170134600
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an accepting unit to accept user operations to transition the apparatus from a standby state to a power save state; a detecting unit to detect objects around the apparatus; and a power control unit to transition the apparatus from the power save state to the standby state according to detection of an object by the detecting unit, and to transition the image forming apparatus from the standby state to the power save state according to user operations accepted at the accepting unit. The power control unit prohibits the apparatus from transitioning from the power save state to the standby state according to the detection of the object, until a user, which performed operations accepted by the accepting unit to transition the apparatus from the standby state to the power save state, thereafter ceases to be detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventor: Takeru Imamura