Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Ohno
Tomoyuki Ohno 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: 8780385Abstract: A print control unit 118 that, once it receives a datacasting automatic activation notification or a datacasting manual activation notification, determines whether or not datacasting is present for a currently selected channel. In a case in which datacasting is present, the print control unit 118 acquires maintenance information acquired from a printer 200 through a maintenance information acquisition process. Based on the acquired maintenance information, the print control unit 118 determines whether or not to issue a command to the printer 200 requesting execution of a maintenance process.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2008Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyuki Ohno, Yuichi Matsumoto, Shinya Oda
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Patent number: 8712221Abstract: A video recording and playing apparatus for recording and playing a broadcast program. The apparatus comprises a recording unit to record broadcast programs on a storage unit, and a deletion unit to automatically delete a broadcast program recorded on the storage unit. The deletion unit determines, from among a plurality of broadcast programs recorded on the storage unit, a broadcast program which becomes a target of deletion, based on an audio signal or a rating of each broadcast program, in cases where a video recording capacity of the storage unit becomes smaller than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Ukawa, Tomoyuki Ohno
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Publication number: 20140085360Abstract: A display apparatus comprises: a display unit configured to display an image; a light emission unit configured to be capable of individually controlling light emission for each of a plurality of divided regions; an acquisition unit configured to acquire, for each divided region, a characteristic value of the image displayed on each of the divided regions; and a control unit, wherein the control unit controls light emission of the light emission unit such that: in a moving image region, in which only a moving image is displayed, among the plurality of divided regions, light is emitted at brightness based on a characteristic value of the moving image region; and in a mixed region, in which both of the moving image and a still image are displayed, among the plurality of divided regions, light is emitted at predetermined brightness.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyuki Ohno, Atsushi Morita, Masaki Akamatsu
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Patent number: 8544056Abstract: An image control apparatus is configured to input a plurality of image data associated with a plurality of image sources and to display a plurality of images on a same screen based on the plurality of image data. The image control apparatus includes an image quality determining unit configured to determine respective image qualities of the plurality of images based on a combination of image information associated with attributes of the plurality of image sources, and an image processing unit configured to process the plurality of image data to cause the plurality of images to have the respective image qualities determined by the image quality determining unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyuki Ohno, Takashi Yamamoto, Yuichi Matsumoto, Tomoyasu Yoshikawa, Teruki Kikkawa, Satoshi Hanamitsu, Tomoya Asanuma, Katsuhiro Miyamoto
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Patent number: 8462178Abstract: A table is allocated indexes corresponding to display positions on a monitor screen, respectively, and data indicating an unexposed part at each of the display positions is stored in each index of the table. Focal position information is acquired from Exif header information on image data of an image, and a location of one of the indexes in the table at which no image data is registered is searched in an ascending order of the indexes. According to the table, the images are arranged so that the focal position of each image differs from the unexposed part at the display position of the image.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2009Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyasu Yoshikawa, Shuntaro Aratani, Tomoyuki Ohno, Katsuhiro Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20130016306Abstract: Disclosed is a backlight apparatus of an image display apparatus capable of changing an position of a screen; the backlight apparatus comprising a plurality of light sources which are provided for a plurality of light source blocks and for which light emission can be controlled independently in relation to each of the light source blocks; a storage unit which stores data to be used in order to determine a driving signal for the light source, the data being determined so that a luminance of each of the light source blocks is included within a predetermined allowable range with respect to a target luminance in relation to each of the positions of the screen; an acquiring unit which acquires the position of the screen; and a control unit which determines the driving signal for the light source by using the data corresponding to the position of the screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyuki Ohno, Daisuke Takayanagi
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Patent number: 8327281Abstract: Additional information indicating photographic conditions for a received image signal is compared with additional information indicating photographic conditions for an access target image signal. If the both conditions satisfy a predetermined relationship, an access to the access target image signal is permitted.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsu Fukuda, Tomoyuki Ohno
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Patent number: 8082573Abstract: A controller (1) and target devices (2, 3) are connected via a network. The controller (1) displays an operation panel for controlling the target device (2) at a display device (10) based on information from the target device (2). The controller (1) is capable of changing an element and a user action of the operation panel based on data obtained by data broadcast.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2004Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuhiro Miyamoto, Takashi Yamamoto, Tomoyuki Ohno
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Patent number: 8079057Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus determines whether a broadcast signal that is being played back and that includes print information is a broadcast signal that is being broadcasted or a broadcast signal that is played back by a recording apparatus. The broadcast receiving apparatus also determines whether the print information included in the broadcast signal that is being played back includes acquisition instructing information instructing acquisition of a print content item transmitted from an external server. If it is determined that the print information included in the broadcast signal that is being played back includes the acquisition instructing information and the broadcast signal that is being played back is played back by the recording apparatus, the broadcast receiving apparatus notifies a user that a print content item which the print information included in the broadcast signal that is being played back intended to acquire during broadcasting cannot possibly be acquired.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2008Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyuki Ohno, Shinya Oda, Takashi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8074244Abstract: Partial data related to information data is received, image data corresponding to the received partial data is generated by sequentially processing the received partial data, and the generated image data is output to a display unit. Before output of the image data corresponding to the partial data to the display unit is completed, reception of the information data is started. Then, image data corresponding to the information data is generated by processing the received information data, and image data to be displayed on said display unit is switched to the image data corresponding to the information data from the image data corresponding to the partial data after the reception of the information data is started.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2008Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyuki Ohno, Yoshikazu Shibamiya, Yuichi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8023032Abstract: A table is allocated indexes corresponding to display positions on a monitor screen, respectively, and data indicating an unexposed part at each of the display positions is stored in each index of the table. Focal position information is acquired from Exif header information on image data of an image, and a location of one of the indexes in the table at which no image data is registered is searched in an ascending order of the indexes. According to the table, the images are arranged so that the focal position of each image differs from the unexposed part at the display position of the image.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2009Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyasu Yoshikawa, Shuntaro Aratani, Tomoyuki Ohno, Katsuhiro Miyamoto
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Patent number: 7937730Abstract: A recording control apparatus for controlling execution of recording in a recording apparatus, comprising, a channel selection acceptance unit configured to accept a channel selection from a user, a display controller to control a display unit to display program data which is selected among received program data via broadcast signal and is corresponding to the accepted channel selection, an obtaining unit configured to obtain reserve-recording information to be executed, and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the program displayed on the display unit corresponds to a program according to the reserve-recording information, wherein when the determination unit determines that the program displayed on the display unit corresponds to a program according to the reserve-recording information, the display controller controls the display unit to display a query screen to inquire of the user whether to erase recorded data corresponding to the reserve-recording information in the recording apparType: GrantFiled: April 1, 2008Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyuki Ohno, Yoshikazu Shibamiya
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Patent number: 7924817Abstract: The tuner unit of a digital broadcast receiving apparatus receives a digital broadcast and generates a data stream from a digital broadcast signal having a desired modulation frequency. A data stream of a digital broadcast is also input from an external digital broadcast receiving apparatus via an external I/F. A stream switching unit and demultiplexer play back the content on a desired channel, contained in the two data streams, on an image display unit in real time, and at the same time, store the content on the other channel, contained in the other data stream, in a storage unit. This makes it possible to watch one of at least two programs with different modulation frequencies while recording the other program.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2005Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyuki Ohno, Nobuhiro Hoshi, Nobuharu Ichihashi
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Patent number: 7908319Abstract: When the same image is pleasantly viewed by information display apparatuses connected to each other through a network, each of the information display apparatuses has a unit for acquiring display format information of an image displayed by a destination information display apparatus, so that information representing a display format of the image displayed by the destination information display apparatus is displayed on the displayed image in a multiplex mode to make it possible know a viewing state of the destination information display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2004Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyuki Ohno, Tetsu Fukuda, Shuntaro Aratani
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Patent number: 7853879Abstract: An image display method and apparatus for displaying a plurality of items of moving image data on a screen include determining a virtual radius of a circular display area displaying one item of moving image data, and determining display positions of the plurality of items of moving image data on the screen such that another item of moving image data is not displayed within a circular display area having the determined radius centered at a display position of one item of moving image data. Each of the plurality of items of moving image data is displayed at the determined display positions.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2006Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyasu Yoshikawa, Shuntaro Aratani, Tomoyuki Ohno, Katsuhiro Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20100309224Abstract: An image displaying method of displaying an image selected from images stored in an image storing apparatus onto a display has the step of displaying the image selected from the images stored in the image storing apparatus into a partial area on the display based on a relative positional relation between the image storing apparatus and the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2010Publication date: December 9, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Tomoyuki Ohno
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Patent number: 7848546Abstract: This invention is directed to reduce the correction load on a user when a plurality of images are to be grouped. An information processing method of discriminating an object contained in a first image and grouping the first image to a plurality of grouping destinations for each object includes a discrimination step of discriminating an object from the first image, a grouping destination determination step of determining, on the basis of the discrimination result obtained in the discrimination step, to which one of the plurality of grouping destinations the first image is to be grouped, and a display control step of displaying, on a window, a process of moving the first image to a position of the second image corresponding to the grouping destination determined in the grouping destination determination step.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2006Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyuki Ohno, Shuntaro Aratani, Katsuhiro Miyamoto
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Patent number: 7817301Abstract: Information relating to print contents is presented to the user in an easily understandable manner. A demultiplexer separates picture data, speech data and other data from received data. Such data include EPG data, data broadcast data, print contents data and supplementary information on the print contents data. A data stream process unit decodes the supplementary information on the print contents data and the print contents data. An image construction unit constructs an image signal of an image frame, providing a list display of transmission schedule and supplementary information of the print contents. The image signal is supplied through a display controller to an image display unit and displayed as an image.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2004Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyuki Ohno, Shuntaro Aratani, Katsuhiro Miyamoto
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Patent number: 7808555Abstract: An image display method of adding a special effect to a plurality of images, changing the plurality of images in time series, and sequentially displaying the plurality of images, the method including an input step of inputting an image, a detection step of detecting a feature area from the input image, a determination step of determining the content of the special effect of a target image on the basis of the detected feature area and the special effect of a previous image which is displayed prior to the detected target image, and a display control step of displaying the image with the determined special effect.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2006Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shuntaro Aratani, Tomoyuki Ohno, Katsuhiro Miyamoto
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Patent number: 7810039Abstract: An image displaying method of displaying an image selected from images stored in an image storing apparatus onto a display has the step of displaying the image selected from the images stored in the image storing apparatus into a partial area on the display based on a relative positional relation between the image storing apparatus and the display.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2005Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Tomoyuki Ohno