Patents by Inventor Tomoya Ishida

Tomoya Ishida 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: 10534505
    Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires, for a target object displayed on a display screen, a plurality of candidates to lay out a user interface on the display screen so as not to overlap the target object. A specifying unit specifies an amount of protrusion, protruding from a first display area including the target object in the display screen, of a candidate acquired by the acquisition unit. A selection unit selects, based on the amount of protrusion specified by the specifying unit, one candidate out of the plurality of candidates. A display control unit displays, based on the candidate selected by the selection unit, the user interface on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoya Ishida, Rikiya Saito, Ryoko Unishi
  • Patent number: 10387542
    Abstract: A layout editing apparatus capable of editing a layout of a plurality of sheets in a layout editing area displayed on a display unit in a case where the plurality of sheets is to be book-bound after being printed includes a determination unit and a layout unit. The determination unit determines, in the layout editing area, a layout-inhibited area where a layout of an object is inhibited, at a position corresponding to a portion at which the plurality of printed sheets is to be bound, with a size according to information about bookbinding. The layout unit lays out the object so as not to overlap with the layout-inhibited area determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoya Ishida
  • Publication number: 20190102053
    Abstract: A control method is provided in which controlling, in a case that a moving operation of moving an operator in a direction toward a reference line is performed in a predetermined region where a first page is displayed, whether or not to perform a predetermined process based on a movement velocity of the operator in the moving operation in the predetermined region. The predetermined process is a process for displaying, on the display unit, a predetermined animation indicating a way in which the first page turns on the reference line as an axis so that an edge of the first page passes a position of the reference line and a page displayed in the predetermined region is changed from the first page to a second page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventor: Tomoya Ishida
  • Publication number: 20190102060
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to control movement of an item in accordance with a drag operation by a user and an obtaining unit configured to obtain an input position of the drag operation by the user in the display area. In a case where the item is moved from a predetermined position in the display area to a first end part side in the display area by the drag operation, the control unit moves the item in a manner that a relative position of the item with respect to an input position of the drag operation on the first end part side is shifted to the first end part side as compared with a relative position of the item with respect to an input position of the drag operation at the predetermined position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventor: Tomoya Ishida
  • Publication number: 20180357806
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to lay out at least some of a plurality of images includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire data on the plurality of images, a layout processing unit configured to execute processing for layout based on the data on the plurality of images which is acquired by the acquisition unit, and a standby processing unit configured to execute processing for displaying a standby screen while the processing for layout is executed by the layout processing unit, wherein the standby processing unit displays in the standby screen a predetermined number of images among the plurality of images acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Tomoya Ishida
  • Patent number: 10115216
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a first control unit, a selecting unit, a second control unit, a switching unit, and an arranging unit. The acquiring unit acquires an image group including pieces of image data. The first control unit displays a layout image in which images selected from the acquired image group are arranged in slots. The selecting unit selects a change target slot in which an image to be changed is arranged from the slots in the displayed layout image. The second control unit displays candidate images which are selected based on the image arranged in the change target slot. The switching unit switches the displayed candidate images to candidate images selected based on an image arranged in a slot different from the change target slot. The arranging unit arranges a candidate image selected from the displayed candidate images in the change target slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoya Ishida, Masao Kato
  • Patent number: 10069923
    Abstract: A device on a network is searched for by using the first protocol, and the first device information is acquired. The second device information about the second protocol is acquired from a device on the network. The second device information is preferentially processed over the first device information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya Ishida
  • Publication number: 20180217743
    Abstract: A program in which the amount of change in at least one element, other than a position in a predetermined direction, between the state of a first knob stopping at a stopping position on a first slider and the state of the first knob that has moved a predetermined distance in the predetermined direction from the stopping position is different from the amount of change in the element between the state of a second knob stopping at a stopping position on a second slider and the state of the second knob that has moved the predetermined distance in the predetermined direction from the stopping position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventor: Tomoya Ishida
  • Publication number: 20180217740
    Abstract: It is possible to improve usability at the time of text editing performed on a user interface. An information processing apparatus capable of newly displaying an object for text to display text in an enlarged view in accordance with a user operation, the information processing apparatus including: a display control unit configured to display a text box at a predetermined position in a display area of the information processing apparatus; and a moving unit configured to move, in a case where the text box is operated, the text box from the predetermined position in a direction opposite to a direction in which the object for text is displayed with respect to the text box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventor: Tomoya Ishida
  • Publication number: 20180217735
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that causes an item to be displayed in a display region of a display unit includes a first control unit that moves an item placed in a predetermined placement region of a plurality of placement regions set in the display region based on a user drag operation, a second control unit that performs, in a case where the drag operation is released in an area other than the plurality of placement regions, cancel processing for placing the item in any placement region of the plurality of placement regions, and a third control unit that stops the cancel processing in a case where inputting to the display region by the user is received before the cancel processing performed by the second control unit is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventor: Tomoya Ishida
  • Publication number: 20180217731
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit that displays a thumbnail list of a plurality of pages in a first display area of a display unit and displays a page corresponding to a thumbnail selected in the thumbnail list displayed in the first display area in a second display area of the display unit, and a movement control unit that moves an item in response to a drag operation, wherein the movement control unit moves an item in a first page displayed in the second display area to a thumbnail corresponding to a second page that is different from the first page in the thumbnail list displayed in the first display area in response to a drag operation, and thus the display control unit displays the second page in the second display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventor: Tomoya Ishida
  • Publication number: 20180032481
    Abstract: A layout editing apparatus capable of editing a layout of a plurality of sheets in a layout editing area displayed on a display unit in a case where the plurality of sheets is to be book-bound after being printed includes a determination unit and a layout unit. The determination unit determines, in the layout editing area, a layout-inhibited area where a layout of an object is inhibited, at a position corresponding to a portion at which the plurality of printed sheets is to be bound, with a size according to information about bookbinding. The layout unit lays out the object so as not to overlap with the layout-inhibited area determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventor: Tomoya Ishida
  • Patent number: 9740471
    Abstract: An apparatus in which at least two pieces of software capable of controlling a device may be installed, each of the pieces of software capable of controlling a device, the apparatus including a setting unit provided by a first piece of software, the setting unit being capable of controlling the device, and a determining unit configured to determine whether the device is to be controlled by a second piece of software that is different from the first piece of software. In this case, if the determining unit determines that the device is to be controlled by the second piece of software, at least partial control of the device is suppressed on a setting screen of the setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoya Ishida
  • Publication number: 20170038921
    Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires, for a target object displayed on a display screen, a plurality of candidates to lay out a user interface on the display screen so as not to overlap the target object. A specifying unit specifies an amount of protrusion, protruding from a first display area including the target object in the display screen, of a candidate acquired by the acquisition unit. A selection unit selects, based on the amount of protrusion specified by the specifying unit, one candidate out of the plurality of candidates. A display control unit displays, based on the candidate selected by the selection unit, the user interface on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: TOMOYA ISHIDA, RIKIYA SAITO, RYOKO UNISHI
  • Publication number: 20170039747
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a first control unit, a selecting unit, a second control unit, a switching unit, and an arranging unit. The acquiring unit acquires an image group including pieces of image data. The first control unit displays a layout image in which images selected from the acquired image group are arranged in slots. The selecting unit selects a change target slot in which an image to be changed is arranged from the slots in the displayed layout image. The second control unit displays candidate images which are selected based on the image arranged in the change target slot. The switching unit switches the displayed candidate images to candidate images selected based on an image arranged in a slot different from the change target slot. The arranging unit arranges a candidate image selected from the displayed candidate images in the change target slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Tomoya Ishida, Masao Kato
  • Patent number: 9560236
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus having a front surface reading unit for reading a front surface of a document and a back surface reading unit for reading a back surface of the document performs adjustment processing in such a manner that start positions of the obtained image data of the front surface and the back surface are each at a position corresponding to an integer multiple of a coding block, and encodes front-and-back combined image data that is based on the adjusted image data of the front surface and the back surface. The image reading apparatus then transmits the encoded front-and-back combined image data, first position information indicating an end edge of the image data of the front surface in the front-and-back combined image data, and second position information indicating an end edge of the image data of the back surface in the front-and-back combined image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoya Ishida
  • Patent number: 9432541
    Abstract: The data format of image data when an image reading apparatus transfers, to an external apparatus, the image data obtained by reading an original by the image reading apparatus is decided based on system configuration information of the image reading apparatus and setting information corresponding to processing to be executed on the image data in the external apparatus. Control for transferring, from the image reading apparatus to the external apparatus, the image data of the decided data format is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya Ishida
  • Publication number: 20160006884
    Abstract: The data format of image data when an image reading apparatus transfers, to an external apparatus, the image data obtained by reading an original by the image reading apparatus is decided based on system configuration information of the image reading apparatus and setting information corresponding to processing to be executed on the image data in the external apparatus. Control for transferring, from the image reading apparatus to the external apparatus, the image data of the decided data format is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventor: Tomoya Ishida
  • Publication number: 20150288843
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus having a front surface reading unit for reading a front surface of a document and a back surface reading unit for reading a back surface of the document performs adjustment processing in such a manner that start positions of the obtained image data of the front surface and the back surface are each at a position corresponding to an integer multiple of a coding block, and encodes front-and-back combined image data that is based on the adjusted image data of the front surface and the back surface. The image reading apparatus then transmits the encoded front-and-back combined image data, first position information indicating an end edge of the image data of the front surface in the front-and-back combined image data, and second position information indicating an end edge of the image data of the back surface in the front-and-back combined image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventor: Tomoya Ishida
  • Publication number: 20150163290
    Abstract: A device on a network is searched for by using the first protocol, and the first device information is acquired. The second device information about the second protocol is acquired from a device on the network. The second device information is preferentially processed over the first device information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventor: Tomoya Ishida