Patents by Inventor Tomohiko Bito

Tomohiko Bito 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: 9426326
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus communicable with an external apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive from the external apparatus a request for displaying a frame used to operate the image forming apparatus on a display of the external apparatus, an execution unit configured to perform shut down processing of the image forming apparatus when a predetermined time has elapsed, and a control unit configured to prevent the execution unit from performing the shut down processing in a case where the reception unit has received the request before the predetermined time has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiko Bito
  • Publication number: 20130229689
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus communicable with an external apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive from the external apparatus a request for displaying a frame used to operate the image forming apparatus on a display of the external apparatus, an execution unit configured to perform shut down processing of the image forming apparatus when a predetermined time has elapsed, and a control unit configured to prevent the execution unit from performing the shut down processing in a case where the reception unit has received the request before the predetermined time has elapsed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiko Bito
  • Publication number: 20120293816
    Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises: a plurality of analysis units configured to correspond respectively to PDL types indicating a plurality of types of page description languages; a unit configured to determine one of the plurality of analysis units to be used for analysis processing, based on a PDL type of the PDL data; a unit configured, in a case where analysis processing is performed using the determined analysis unit and if the number of times that a specific command has been detected in a predetermined range of the PDL data exceeds a predetermined threshold value, to suspend the analysis processing for the PDL data and to issue an alert; a unit configured, after an alert has been issued, to accept an instruction indicating whether to continue or cancel the analysis processing for the PDL data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiko Bito