Patents by Inventor Tokuharu Kaneko
Tokuharu Kaneko 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: 7403957Abstract: In an image forming apparatus for forming an image in accordance with control codes stored in a plurality of memory media, when the control codes stored in the plurality of memory media to control the image forming apparatus is rewritten, rewrite execution codes adapted to execute rewrite of the control codes are transferred to predetermined one of the plurality of memory media from an external apparatus, and rewrite of the control codes is performed in accordance with the transferred rewrite execution codes.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2004Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideyuki Ikegami, Tokuharu Kaneko, Shokyo Koh, Tsuyoshi Muto
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Publication number: 20050062984Abstract: In an image forming apparatus for forming an image in accordance with control codes stored in a plurality of memory media, when the control codes stored in the plurality of memory media to control the image forming apparatus is rewritten, rewrite execution codes adapted to execute rewrite of the control codes are transferred to predetermined one of the plurality of memory media from an external apparatus, and rewrite of the control codes is performed in accordance with the transferred rewrite execution codes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2004Publication date: March 24, 2005Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki Ikegami, Tokuharu Kaneko, Shokyo Koh, Tsuyoshi Muto
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Patent number: 6854000Abstract: In an image forming apparatus for forming an image in accordance with control codes stored in a plurality of memory media, when the control codes stored in the plurality of memory media to control the image forming apparatus is rewritten, rewrite execution codes adapted to execute rewrite of the control codes are transferred to predetermined one of the plurality of memory media from an external apparatus, and rewrite of the control codes is performed in accordance with the transferred rewrite execution codes.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1998Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideyuki Ikegami, Tokuharu Kaneko, Shokyo Koh, Tsuyoshi Muto
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Publication number: 20020085229Abstract: In an image forming apparatus for forming an image in accordance with control codes stored in a plurality of memory media, when the control codes stored in the plurality of memory media to control the image forming apparatus is rewritten, rewrite execution codes adapted to execute rewrite of the control codes are transferred to predetermined one of the plurality of memory media from an external apparatus, and rewrite of the control codes is performed in accordance with the transferred rewrite execution codes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 1998Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: HIDEYUKI IKEGAMI, TOKUHARU KANEKO, SHOKYO KOH, TSUYOSHI MUTO
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Patent number: 6304681Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first determination unit for determining the direction of an input image, a second determination unit for determining if the input image is a portrait type or landscape type, and an image rotation unit for rotating the input image in correspondence with the determination results of the first and second determination units. The image rotation unit rotates one of portrait type and landscape type images to adjust the direction of the image in a predetermined direction, and rotates the other one of portrait type and landscape type images to adjust the direction of the image in a direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1997Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Rieko Akiba, Tokuharu Kaneko, Shokyo Koh, Keizo Isemura, Yukari Toda, Hirohiko Tashiro, Akinobu Nishikata, Masanobu Inui, Nobuo Sekiguchi, Nobuaki Miyahara
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Patent number: 6285460Abstract: An image processing system includes an input device which inputs an n page document, with the n pages being reduced in size so that a predetermined number of the n pages can be layed out in a layout print format on a single sheet for recording. A selection device selects between first and second layout modes for laying out the predetermined number of pages in the layout print format for recording. In the first layout mode the predetermined number of the n pages are first layed out in the layout print format and are subsequently stored in a storage device, and are then read from the storage device for recording on a single sheet. In the second layout mode the predetermined number of pages are first stored in the storage device on a page by page basis, are then read from the storage device and are subsequently layed out in the layout print format, and are then recorded on a single sheet.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1997Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: Canon Kabushika KaishaInventors: Shokyo Koh, Tokuharu Kaneko, Keizo Isemura, Hirohiko Tashiro, Akinobu Nishikata, Masanobu Inui, Nobuo Sekiguchi, Nobuaki Miyahara, Rieko Akiba
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Patent number: 6236815Abstract: In an image forming apparatus for reversing/discharging sheets on which images are formed, control is performed to form mirror images on sheets and discharge the sheets, on which the mirror images are formed, without reversing them in accordance with the type of sheet on which images are to be formed, thereby adjusting the output order of the sheets without increasing the sheet output time and causing any damage on the sheet.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1998Date of Patent: May 22, 2001Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tokuharu Kaneko, Shokyo Koh, Mitsuhiko Sato, Yoshihito Osari
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Patent number: 6112035Abstract: An equipment controlling apparatus is composed of a counter for counting the operational number of the equipment, memories for storing data indicating the state of the equipment, a communication device for communicating on the stored data with a centralized control apparatus, which controls the communicated data intensively, and a controlling device for causing the stored data to be transmitted to the centralized control apparatus when the counter has counted a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1997Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Kuroyanagi, Masanori Miyata, Hideki Adachi, Shinichi Nakamura, Naoyuki Ohki, Tokuharu Kaneko, Hiroshi Ozaki, Hisatsugu Tahara, Satoshi Kaneko, Taisei Fukada, Mitsuharu Takizawa
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Patent number: 6064915Abstract: An equipment control apparatus in a system having an input unit for entering data on the conditions of equipment from the equipment, a communication unit for communicating with the apparatus located at a distance, and a control unit for exerting control in such a way as to transmit the data to the apparatus located at a distance through the steps of interrupting communication once on receiving a call from the apparatus requesting the data and then calling the apparatus located at a distance via the communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1997Date of Patent: May 16, 2000Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tokuharu Kaneko, Masanori Miyata, Hideki Adachi, Shinichi Nakamura, Naoyuki Ohki, Satoshi Kuroyanagi, Hiroshi Ozaki, Hisatsugu Tahara, Satoshi Kaneko, Taisei Fukada, Mitsuharu Takizawa
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Patent number: 6014459Abstract: The apparatus reads an original by an image reader, and if it recognizes caption(s) included in the original, stores a page number of the original into a memory, thereafter, performs copying based on the stored page number such that the original page including the caption is transferred onto the front side of a recording sheet.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1999Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayoshi Taira, Yoshihiro Hosomi, Hirokazu Takahashi, Yoshio Mizuno, Tokuharu Kaneko, Satoshi Kaneko, Taisei Fukada, Keizo Isemura, Akihiko Satoh, Hirohiko Kishimoto, Masahiro Serizawa, Noriaki Matsui
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Patent number: 6011936Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a sheet conveying apparatus and an image forming apparatus having such a sheet conveying apparatus. If a sheet is jammed, the sheet is stopped in a sheet convey path at a position where the sheet can easily be removed by optimum treatment procedure. Sensors are disposed in a sheet convey path constituted by a plurality of units of an image forming apparatus portion and a sheet is stopped at an optimum position by a sheet position counter for recognizing the present position of the sheet in the sheet convey path.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1996Date of Patent: January 4, 2000Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tokuharu Kaneko
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Patent number: 5940583Abstract: The apparatus reads an original by an image reader, and if it recognizes caption(s) included in the original, stores a page number of the original into a memory, thereafter, performs copying based on the stored page number such that the original page including the caption is transferred onto the front side of a recording sheet.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1995Date of Patent: August 17, 1999Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayoshi Taira, Yoshihiro Hosomi, Hirokazu Takahashi, Yoshio Mizuno, Tokuharu Kaneko, Satoshi Kaneko, Taisei Fukada, Keizo Isemura, Akihiko Satoh, Hirohiko Kishimoto, Masahiro Serizawa, Noriaki Matsui
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Patent number: 5930001Abstract: An image processor rotates an image in conformity with the orientation of an original, thereby enhancing user convenience. An original conveyed by an automatic conveyance device is read by an image reader and the image is stored in an image memory. A character in the stored image is subsequently recognized by a character recognition unit and the orientation of the character is discriminated. The image is rotated by an image editor in conformity with a stapling position, and the rotated image is recorded by an image recording unit. Sheets of paper on which images are recorded are stapled at the stapling position by a staple provided in a sorter.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1995Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihiko Satoh, Yoshihiro Hosomi, Hirokazu Takahashi, Yoshio Mizuno, Tokuharu Kaneko, Satoshi Kaneko, Taisei Fukada, Keizo Isemura, Hirohiko Kishimoto, Masayoshi Taira, Masahiro Serizawa, Noriaki Matsui
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Patent number: 5895140Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a status detecting unit for detecting a status of each portion of the apparatus, a driving unit for driving each portion of the apparatus, an input unit having an input data storing unit for storing input data detected by the status detecting unit, an output unit having an output data storing unit for storing data to be output for driving the driving unit, a controlling unit connected to the input data storing unit and the output data storing unit for controlling the whole image forming operation of the apparatus including a control of the driving unit, in accordance with a status detected with the status detecting unit or a predetermined rule, a network for transferring data between the controlling unit and a plurality of the input or output units, and a timing control unit for controlling the timing of data transfer over the network, wherein the timing control unit includes a plurality of timing control modes and selects one of the timing control modes in accordance withType: GrantFiled: October 21, 1997Date of Patent: April 20, 1999Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shokyo Koh, Tokuharu Kaneko, Akimaro Yoshida
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Patent number: 5835681Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material comprising: a plurality of processing devices for forming the image; a detecter for detecting at least a quantity of state relating to a control of the processing devices; an inference computer for inferring, in accordance with the quantity of state, a quantity of control for use to control the processing devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 1996Date of Patent: November 10, 1998Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Kaneko, Tokuharu Kaneko, Hiroaki Tsuchiya, Nobuo Nakazawa, Hisashi Fukushima, Yasushi Miura, Nobuhiko Takekoshi
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Patent number: 5809183Abstract: A method and apparatus for recognizing character information in an original document with high recognition accuracy regardless of the size of a character to be recognized. An input image is processed by an image processing circuit and stored in an image recording unit. A character region in the recorded image data is detected by a recognition section, and the image corresponding to the detected character region is read with a predetermined magnification. Character recognition is performed on the image of the character region read at the predetermined magnification, in the recognition section. If the recognition accuracy does not satisfy a predetermined criterion, the same image is read again with a modified magnification wherein the magnification is determined on the basis of preset sizes and the size of the character pattern of a character to be recognized.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1994Date of Patent: September 15, 1998Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Serizawa, Yoshihiro Hosomi, Hirokazu Takahashi, Yoshio Mizuno, Tokuharu Kaneko, Satoshi Kaneko, Taisei Fukada, Keizo Isemura, Akihiko Satoh, Hirohiko Kishimoto, Masayoshi Taira, Noriaki Matsui
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Patent number: 5799237Abstract: A reading apparatus includes an image reader for reading a sheet original positioned at a reading position and an automatic original conveyor for supplying the sheet original onto the reading position, wherein the sheet original can be read through an image flow reading mode while the sheet original is being conveyed by the automatic original conveyor by fixing the image reader at any position. The apparatus also has a convey path for directing the sheet original to the reading position, and a controller for initiating conveyance of the sheet original waiting at a predetermined position in the convey path in response to a flow reading mode start signal during the image flow reading mode and for initiating the image flow reading mode by outputting an image tip signal when a tip end of the sheet original reaches a flow reading image tip position.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 1997Date of Patent: August 25, 1998Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Noriyoshi Ueda, Masakazu Hiroi, Shinichi Nakamura, Yoshio Mizuno, Chikara Sato, Tokuharu Kaneko, Yoshinori Isobe, Akimaro Yoshida, Yasuhide Hishikawa, Tomohito Nakagawa
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Patent number: 5752040Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: an inserting unit to insert a memory medium such as IC card or floppy disc which can be freely attached or detached and in which programs to control the image processing apparatus have been stored; a memory to store the program which has been read out from the memory medium and kind data indicative of the kind of program; a loading circuit to load the program stored in the memory medium into the memory; and a control unit to control the image processing apparatus in accordance with the program stored in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1995Date of Patent: May 12, 1998Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Kaneko, Hideki Adachi, Shinichi Nakamura, Naoyuki Ohki, Tokuharu Kaneko, Satoshi Kuroyanagi, Hiroshi Ozaki, Hisatsugu Tahara, Taisei Fukada, Yukimasa Iseki, Mitsuhiko Sato, Mitsuharu Takizawa
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Patent number: 5689759Abstract: A copying apparatus provided with a manual sheet feeding device, including an image formation control unit for controlling an image forming operation, a manual input device for designating the size of a copying sheet placed on the manual sheet feeding device, a memory for memorizing the sheet size designated by the manual input device, and a display for displaying the sheet size memorized by the memory. The image formation control unit controls the image forming operation in accordance with the size designated by the manual input device.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 1996Date of Patent: November 18, 1997Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keizo Isemura, Hideki Adachi, Tokuharu Kaneko, Satoru Kutsuwada
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Patent number: 5579438Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material comprising: a plurality of processing devices for forming the image; a detector for detecting at least a quantity of state relating to a control of the processing devices; a fuzzy inference computer for inferring, in accordance with the quantity of state, a quantity of control for use to control the processing devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1995Date of Patent: November 26, 1996Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Kaneko, Tokuharu Kaneko, Hiroaki Tsuchiya, Nobuo Nakazawa, Hisashi Fukushima, Yasushi Miura, Nobuhiko Takekoshi