Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Edamura
Tetsuya Edamura 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: 8328311Abstract: Degradation in image quality due to disturbance in landing positions of satellites is suppressed. When scanning and printing with a printing head which has a first nozzle array ejecting relatively large ejection amount of ink, a second nozzle array arranged on one side of the first nozzle array in a scan direction and a third nozzle array arranged on the other side of the first nozzle array in the scan direction, the second and third nozzle arrays ejecting a relatively small ejection amount of ink with the same color, a printing rate of one of the second and third nozzle arrays located at the front side in the scan direction is controlled lower than that of the other located at the back side.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takatoshi Nakano, Kiichiro Takahashi, Tetsuya Edamura, Toshiyuki Chikuma, Hirokazu Tanaka, Wakako Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8317290Abstract: On performing a predetermined printing operation, whether or not, among a plurality of printing elements, only a part of the printing elements are applied is detected. If it is judged that only the part of the printing elements are used, a judgment is made whether or not the preliminary discharge operation is performed based on the number of discharges for the part of the printing elements, and if it is not judged that only the part of the printing elements are used, a judgment is made whether or not the preliminary discharge operation is performed based on the number of discharges for all of the printing elements of the printing head. This eliminates an unnecessary preliminary discharge for non-printing elements even in a printing operation mode in which only a part of the printing elements are applied.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Edamura, Kiichiro Takahashi, Minoru Teshigawara, Akiko Maru, Yoshiaki Murayama
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Publication number: 20120229544Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a recording head having a recording element row in which multiple recording elements are disposed, with recording elements at dispersed positions in the recording element rows as blocks; a scanning unit configured to scan the recording head in a main scanning direction; a time-division driving unit configured to drive the recording elements in increments of blocks; a storing unit configured to store recording data; an obtaining unit configured to obtain information relating to the inclination of the recording element row relative to the main scanning direction; and a changing unit operable to change, in increments of individual recording elements, the storage position in the main scanning direction of recording data stored in the storing unit that is to be provided to recording elements of a group, which is configured of consecutive recording elements in each block in the recording element row, based on the obtained information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Minoru Teshigawara, Kiichiro Takahashi, Tetsuya Edamura, Akiko Maru, Yoshiaki Murayama, Takatoshi Nakano, Masahiko Umezawa, Shinsuke Ikegami
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Publication number: 20120218330Abstract: With an ink jet head having for each color two parallel columns of nozzles arranged shifted by one-half the pitch, odd-numbered rasters and even-numbered rasters are printed by the two nozzle columns. The registration between the odd- and even-numbered rasters is secured during the printing to produce a high quality image. The ink ejection timing between the two raster groups is shifted by a predetermined interval to form adjustment patterns; the adjustment patterns are checked and, according to the check result, an adjustment value for the ink ejection timing between the two ink nozzle columns is entered, and the entered adjustment value is stored to be reflected on the actual printing operation. To facilitate the adjustment pattern check, the adjustment patterns have a dot distribution with a blue noise characteristic at a resolution at which the printing apparatus can print.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Miyuki Fujita, Hiroshi Tajika, Yuji Konno, Shuichi Murakami, Norihiro Kawatoko, Takayuki Ogasahara, Tetsuya Edamura, Tetsuhiro Maeda
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Patent number: 8253980Abstract: To enable the printing in which it is difficult for the dot to stand out and it is difficult for the gradation sequence properties to be degraded. Therefore, among plural dots each having a different size, the binary processing is carried out by using the same first dot arrangement pattern in regard to the large and medium-sized dots and the binary processing is carried out by using a dot arrangement pattern different from the first dot arrangement pattern in regard to the small-sized dots.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiaki Murayama, Kiichiro Takahashi, Minoru Teshigawara, Tetsuya Edamura, Akiko Maru, Takatoshi Nakano, Hiroshi Taira
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Patent number: 8240802Abstract: By subtracting a first parameter related to the printing position deviation inherent to the printing head from a second parameter that is obtained by actually measuring the printing position deviation in a state where the printing head is mounted on the printing apparatus, a third parameter related to the printing position deviation inherent to the printing apparatus is acquired. When a new printing head is mounted on the printing apparatus, a new second parameter is computed from the third parameter and a first parameter that is of the new printing head. By this procedure, it is possible to hold down a time required for actual measurement of the printing position deviation and consumables, and even when the printing head is exchanged, it becomes possible to stably output a uniform image free from the printing position deviation.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2010Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takatoshi Nakano, Kiichiro Takahashi, Minoru Teshigawara, Tetsuya Edamura, Akiko Maru, Hiroshi Taira
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Patent number: 8201907Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a recording head having a recording element row in which multiple recording elements are disposed, with recording elements at dispersed positions in the recording element rows as blocks; a scanning unit configured to scan the recording head in a main scanning direction; a time-division driving unit configured to drive the recording elements in increments of blocks; a storing unit configured to store recording data; an obtaining unit configured to obtain information relating to the inclination of the recording element row relative to the main scanning direction; and a changing unit operable to change, in increments of individual recording elements, the storage position in the main scanning direction of recording data stored in the storing unit that is to be provided to recording elements of a group, which is configured of consecutive recording elements in each block in the recording element row, based on the obtained information.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2008Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Minoru Teshigawara, Kiichiro Takahashi, Tetsuya Edamura, Akiko Maru, Yoshiaki Murayama, Takatoshi Nakano, Masahiko Umezawa, Shinsuke Ikegami
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Patent number: 8177322Abstract: Quality degradation of a print image due to a deviation amount in a landing position of ink is prevented while suppressing degradation of through-put. In a method of completing a print to a unit region by at least one reciprocal scan to the unit region of a print medium by a printing head in which plural ink ejection ports are arrayed for ejecting ink, a printing rate in a scan direction where a deviation amount in a landing position of ink in an array direction of the ink ejection ports is relatively large is set relatively low and the printing rate in the scan direction where the deviation amount in the landing position of ink in the array direction of the ink ejection ports is relatively small is set relatively high.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2010Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takatoshi Nakano, Kiichiro Takahashi, Tetsuya Edamura, Toshiyuki Chikuma, Hirokazu Tanaka, Wakako Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8172354Abstract: The present invention relates to a printing position adjusting method capable of performing dot adjustment value acquisition processing that can accommodate diversified user needs of recent years, and a printing system capable of achieving the adjusting method. The printing position adjusting method according to the present invention provides a plurality of types of dot adjustment value acquisition processing capable of acquiring an adjustment value for matching printing positions, and enables selection of a single appropriate dot adjustment value acquisition processing type among the plurality of types of dot adjustment value acquisition processing according to the type of the print medium to be used. Consequently, a user will be able to suitably execute dot adjustment value acquisition processing with high accuracy in correspondence with the desired high level of quality.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2010Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kiichiro Takahashi, Minoru Teshigawara, Tetsuya Edamura, Akiko Maru, Yoshiaki Murayama, Takatoshi Nakano
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Patent number: 8147019Abstract: By using an ink jet head, which has for each color two parallel columns of nozzles arranged side by side in the main scan direction and shifted from each other by one-half the pitch at which the nozzles are arranged in each column, odd-numbered rasters and even-numbered rasters making up an image are printed by the two nozzle columns. The registration between the odd- and even-numbered rasters is secured during the printing to produce an image with high print quality. For that purpose, the ink ejection timing between the two raster groups is shifted by a predetermined interval to form a plurality of adjustment patterns; the adjustment patterns printed are checked and, according to the check result, an adjustment value for the ink ejection timing between the two ink nozzle columns is entered, and the entered adjustment value is stored to be reflected on the actual printing operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2005Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Miyuki Fujita, Hiroshi Tajika, Yuji Konno, Shuichi Murakami, Norihiro Kawatoko, Takayuki Ogasahara, Tetsuya Edamura, Tetsuhiro Maeda
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Patent number: 8136919Abstract: The present invention reduces image deterioration such as density nonuniformity when recording is performed using a recording head having two ejection orifice rows that eject a predetermined achromatic ink, for example, gray ink. For this purpose, the distance between two ejection orifice rows that eject a predetermined achromatic ink is larger than the distance between two ejection orifice rows that eject a predetermined chromatic ink.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2009Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akiko Maru, Kiichiro Takahashi, Tetsuya Edamura, Minoru Teshigawara, Takatoshi Nakano, Hiroshi Taira
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Publication number: 20120062636Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus in which in a case of tone-expressing one pixel corresponding to a plurality of areas (printing resolution) in a multi-pass print, it is possible to output a uniform image without graininess or density unevenness over all-tone regions from a low-density region to a high-density region. To this end, by referring to dot patterns in which a print or a non-print of dots onto each pixel (area) corresponding to a printing resolution are in advance defined, quantization data is converted into binary data having the higher printing resolution. At this time, the dot patterns are prepared to be different from each other for M times of scans in a multi-pass print of M passes. In consequence, it is possible to restrict a variation of a coverage ratio due to a printing position displacement in each printing scan.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Wakako Yamamoto, Kiichiro Takahashi, Tetsuya Edamura, Toshiyuki Chikuma, Hirokazu Tanaka, Takatoshi Nakano
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Publication number: 20120062651Abstract: For a serial color ink jet printing apparatus that forms an image using a symmetric printing head that ejects large dots and small dots, the configuration of a printing head is provided for suppressing, to the extent possible, a cyclic fluctuation in the main scanning direction. According to the present invention, individual nozzle arrays are arranged so that two nozzle arrays, i.e., a cyan nozzle array c1 and a magenta nozzle array m1, that are located nearer each other, form dots on adjacent scan lines. With this arrangement, a high quality image, having neither an uneven density nor an uneven color, can be formed when a printing head is inclined, or when a cyclic shift in printing positions occurs, depending on the position of the main scanning direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kiichiro TAKAHASHI, Naoji OTSUKA, Osamu IWASAKI, Minoru TESHIGAWARA, Tetsuya EDAMURA, Yoshinori NAKAGAWA, Satoshi SEKI, Naomi OSHIO
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Publication number: 20120026227Abstract: An ink jet printing apparatus and printing method are provided that can, without the addition of a special structure, suppress density imbalance between the print images formed by ink ejected from each of the ejection ports formed on a print head. As for the plurality of ejection ports, one portion of them are established as multiple impact ejection ports that form multiply impacted pixels at which the number of times ink is impacted at the same area is greater than at other pixels of the print area. And, print control is carried out such that more multiply impacted pixels are printed at print areas printed using ejection ports at the ends of the print head than at print areas printed without using ejection ports at the ends of the print head.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirokazu Tanaka, Tetsuya Edamura, Toshiyuki Chikuma, Takatoshi Nakano, Wakako Yamamoto, Kiichiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 8079665Abstract: For a serial color ink jet printing apparatus that forms an image using a symmetric printing head that ejects large dots and small dots, the configuration of a printing head is provided for suppressing, to the extent possible, a cyclic fluctuation in the main scanning direction. According to the present invention, individual nozzle arrays are arranged so that two nozzle arrays, i.e., a cyan nozzle array c1 and a magenta nozzle array m1, that are located nearer each other, form dots on adjacent scan lines. With this arrangement, a high quality image, having neither an uneven density nor an uneven color, can be formed when a printing head is inclined, or when a cyclic shift in printing positions occurs, depending on the position of the main scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2008Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kiichiro Takahashi, Naoiji Otsuka, Osamu Iwasaki, Minoru Teshigawara, Tetsuya Edamura, Yoshinori Nakagawa, Satoshi Seki, Naomi Oshio
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Publication number: 20110304666Abstract: After a first scan in a forward direction, conveying corresponding to one nozzle block is performed, and then in a second scan in a backward direction, printing of a “printing area 1,” which is a unit area, is completed. Then after completion of printing of the unit area, conveying corresponding to 14 nozzle blocks is performed. Then by reciprocal third and fourth scans, printing of a “printing area 2” is completed in a likewise manner. Subsequently, two scans in a reciprocal manner are performed in a likewise manner to perform printing of each unit area. In any unit area, printing time intervals between scans are such that, at a same position in a scan direction, the time interval is the same. Consequently, differences in density between unit areas that are adjacent in a conveying direction of a printing medium, that is, between-band unevenness becomes more difficult to recognize.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2011Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kiichiro Takahashi, Minoru Teshigawara, Tetsuya Edamura, Akiko Maru, Yoshiaki Murayama, Takatoshi Nakano, Hiroshi Taira
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Patent number: 8070249Abstract: After a first scan in a forward direction, conveying corresponding to one nozzle block is performed, and then in a second scan in a backward direction, printing of a “printing area 1,” which is a unit area, is completed. Then after completion of printing of the unit area, conveying corresponding to 14 nozzle blocks is performed. Then by reciprocal third and fourth scans, printing of a “printing area 2” is completed in a likewise manner. Subsequently, two scans in a reciprocal manner are performed in a likewise manner to perform printing of each unit area. In any unit area, printing time intervals between scans are such that, at a same position in a scan direction, the time interval is the same. Consequently, differences in density between unit areas that are adjacent in a conveying direction of a printing medium, that is, between-band unevenness becomes more difficult to recognize.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2008Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kiichiro Takahashi, Minoru Teshigawara, Tetsuya Edamura, Akiko Maru, Yoshiaki Murayama, Takatoshi Nakano, Hiroshi Taira
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Publication number: 20110285787Abstract: In an ink jet printing apparatus using many types of inks to execute bidirectional printing, if ejection opening rows for yellow, magenta, and cyan inks are symmetrically arranged, ejection opening rows for a black ink are arranged adjacent to the most inside ejection opening rows for the yellow ink. Thus, a difference in color between forward scanning and backward scanning is determined by a difference in coloring between the black ink and the yellow ink. In this case, a possible color drift attributed to bidirectional printing can be suppressed by selecting the inks so that the difference in coloring between the black ink and the yellow ink is smaller than that between the black ink and the other color inks.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: OSAMU IWASAKI, KIICHIRO TAKAHASHI, HITOSHI NISHIKORI, NAOJI OTSUKA, MINORU TESHIGAWARA, TETSUYA EDAMURA, YOSHINORI NAKAGAWA, SATOSHI SEKI
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Publication number: 20110249049Abstract: An ink jet printing apparatus is provided that can perform printing without degrading printing quality. In the present invention, correction for a head-to-sheet distance change is performed for both forward printing and backward printing during a multi-path printing operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Taira, Kiichiro Takahashi, Minoru Teshigawara, Tetsuya Edamura, Akiko Maru, Yoshiaki Murayama, Takatoshi Nakano
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Publication number: 20110249062Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus and a print position correction method are provided which, even if satellites are produced, can evaluate printed position misalignments of main droplets without being influenced by the satellites and correctly perform a print position correction. To this end, when the test patterns are printed, the carriage speed and the head-medium distance are set smaller than those used during normal printing operations so as to keep the influences of the satellites on the printed patterns minimal. From the printed test patterns an amount of print position misalignment is acquired. Before actually executing a normal printing operation, an amount of the print position misalignment corresponding to the carriage speed and the head-medium distance of the actual printing operation is determined based on the amount of misalignment obtained from the test patterns and the print position adjustment is made using the determined amount of the print position misalignment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takatoshi Nakano, Kiichiro Takahashi, Minoru Teshigawara, Tetsuya Edamura, Akiko Maru, Yoshiaki Murayama