Patents by Inventor Yasunori Kanai

Yasunori Kanai 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).

  • Publication number: 20240201918
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus executes instructions to transmit, to a first information processing apparatus, information corresponding to a screen regarding registering a plurality of print setting values and an identifier corresponding to the plurality of print setting values, wherein the screen is a setting screen regarding an Internet Printing Protocol, store the plurality of print setting values and the identifier received from the first information processing apparatus in the one or more memories, and transmit the stored plurality of print setting values and the stored identifier to a second information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Takeshi Kaneda, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Toshihiko Iida, Yasunori Kanai
  • Publication number: 20240143256
    Abstract: A method of controlling a communication terminal including a near-field communication unit includes setting, as operation settings of the communication terminal, whether to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit and controlling to display a predetermined notification before displaying a screen for performing a login request upon condition that a user operation to transition to a screen for performing a login request to an external device has been received, and that settings have not been made in the setting of the communication terminal at least to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit as operation settings of the communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: Yasunori Kanai
  • Patent number: 11922084
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to receive, from an information processing apparatus, a set of print setting values, an identifier of the set, and a user identifier, register the received set of print setting values in association with the received identifier of the set and the received user identifier, and receive, from an information processing apparatus, a first request for obtaining the registered identifier of the set. The received first request includes the user identifier of a user that operates the information processing apparatus that has transmitted the first request. The controller also transmits, to the information processing apparatus that has transmitted the first request, the identifier of the set registered in association with the user identifier included in the first request, wherein the information processing apparatus that has received the identifier of the set displays a print setting screen using the received identifier of the set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kaneda, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Toshihiko Iida, Yasunori Kanai
  • Patent number: 11922085
    Abstract: A method of controlling a communication terminal including a near-field communication unit includes setting, as operation settings of the communication terminal, whether to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit and controlling to display a predetermined notification before displaying a screen for performing a login request upon condition that a user operation to transition to a screen for performing a login request to an external device has been received, and that settings have not been made in the setting of the communication terminal at least to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit as operation settings of the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasunori Kanai
  • Patent number: 11683424
    Abstract: A printing apparatus that prints an image on a sheet includes at least one memory that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes instructions, of the set of instructions, to cause the printing apparatus to perform operations including receiving a print job for instructing printing of a plurality of pages, in which a plurality of copies, each including one or more pages, is included, determining a number of copies based on a number of pages in the plurality of pages and attribution information indicating a number of pages per a set of pages to be printed, and displaying a screen that includes information indicating the determined number of copies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasunori Kanai
  • Patent number: 11507335
    Abstract: A method of controlling a communication terminal including a near-field communication unit includes setting, as operation settings of the communication terminal, whether to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit and controlling to display a predetermined notification before displaying a screen for performing a login request upon condition that a user operation to transition to a screen for performing a login request to an external device has been received, and that settings have not been made in the setting of the communication terminal at least to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit as operation settings of the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasunori Kanai
  • Publication number: 20210365226
    Abstract: A method of controlling a communication terminal including a near-field communication unit includes setting, as operation settings of the communication terminal, whether to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit and controlling to display a predetermined notification before displaying a screen for performing a login request upon condition that a user operation to transition to a screen for performing a login request to an external device has been received, and that settings have not been made in the setting of the communication terminal at least to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit as operation settings of the communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventor: Yasunori Kanai
  • Publication number: 20210334613
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus obtains capability information of a printing apparatus, wherein the capability information is including a predetermined text and a sheet type that the printing apparatus can use in printing; displays, in a display unit, a first option that the printing apparatus carries out printing for a sheet of a selected sheet type, based on the predetermined text included in the capability information, and displays a second option that the printing apparatus carries out printing for a sheet of the sheet type included in the capability information based on the sheet type included in the capability information; generates a print job including the option set through the screen; and sends the generated print job to the printing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Yasunori Kanai, Kenta Matsui
  • Patent number: 11138565
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a billing server and the like capable of receiving email using the same address irrespective of whether or not an object is to be billed, and which can differentiate between and handle both situations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: N PLUS, INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakamura, Yasunori Kanai
  • Patent number: 11093188
    Abstract: A printing apparatus is provided and stores, in a storage unit, setting formation about a print operation using the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus receives a job setting value from a communication terminal, and determines whether a prohibition condition applies to the job setting value from the communication terminal based on the received job setting value and the setting value stored in the storage unit. The printing apparatus further notifies the communication terminal of information indicating the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasunori Kanai
  • Patent number: 11087190
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus obtains capability information of a printing apparatus, wherein the capability information is including a predetermined text and a sheet type that the printing apparatus can use in printing; displays, in a display unit, a first option that the printing apparatus carries out printing for a sheet of a selected sheet type, based on the predetermined text included in the capability information, and displays a second option that the printing apparatus carries out printing for a sheet of the sheet type included in the capability information based on the sheet type included in the capability information; generates a print job including the option set through the screen; and sends the generated print job to the printing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasunori Kanai, Kenta Matsui
  • Publication number: 20210240425
    Abstract: A method of controlling a communication terminal including a near-field communication unit includes setting, as operation settings of the communication terminal, whether to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit and controlling to display a predetermined notification before displaying a screen for performing a login request upon condition that a user operation to transition to a screen for performing a login request to an external device has been received, and that settings have not been made in the setting of the communication terminal at least to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit as operation settings of the communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventor: Yasunori Kanai
  • Patent number: 11023191
    Abstract: A method of controlling a communication terminal including a near-field communication unit includes setting, as operation settings of the communication terminal, whether to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit and controlling to display a predetermined notification before displaying a screen for performing a login request upon condition that a user operation to transition to a screen for performing a login request to an external device has been received, and that settings have not been made in the setting of the communication terminal at least to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit as operation settings of the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasunori Kanai
  • Patent number: 10956105
    Abstract: A printing apparatus of the present invention comprises a memory device that stores a set of instructions; and at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to: notify an information processing apparatus of information indicating a combination of print settings that conflict with each other, receive print settings set in the information processing apparatus while avoiding the combination indicated by the information, determine whether the received print settings include settings that conflict with each other, based on information which is different from the notified information and indicates another combination of print settings that conflict with each other, and notify the information processing apparatus of a result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasunori Kanai
  • Patent number: 10872138
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for setting authentication information of an information processing apparatus is provided. When a setting of a password to a PostScript (PS) interpreter is performed by a PS command, the password is stored in a volatile memory. When the setting of a password to the PS interpreter is performed through a setting screen, the password is stored in a nonvolatile memory, and thereafter, stored in the volatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasunori Kanai
  • Publication number: 20200364670
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a billing server and the like capable of receiving email using the same address irrespective of whether or not an object is to be billed, and which can differentiate between and handle both situations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAMURA, Yasunori KANAI
  • Publication number: 20200319830
    Abstract: A Multi Function Peripheral (MFP) stores setting information for collectively setting a plurality of setting contents regarding image formation in print data. The MFP performs control such that, in response to accepting a registration request issued via an operation by an authenticated user for registering the setting information in the image forming apparatus, the setting information is registered in the storage means such that the stored setting information has a data structure that allows the setting information to be referred to using identification information of the authenticated user. In response to accepting a request including identification information of a user from a print client for acquiring attribute information regarding image formation allowed to be used by the user, the MPF acquires setting information used by the user based on the identification information and transmits the attribute information including the setting information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Takeshi Kaneda, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Toshihiko Iida, Yasunori Kanai
  • Publication number: 20200234094
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus obtains capability information of a printing apparatus, wherein the capability information is including a predetermined text and a sheet type that the printing apparatus can use in printing; displays, in a display unit, a first option that the printing apparatus carries out printing for a sheet of a selected sheet type, based on the predetermined text included in the capability information, and displays a second option that the printing apparatus carries out printing for a sheet of the sheet type included in the capability information based on the sheet type included in the capability information; generates a print job including the option set through the screen; and sends the generated print job to the printing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yasunori Kanai, Kenta Matsui
  • Patent number: 10708463
    Abstract: A print apparatus that controls a printing device and executes printing based on print data, transmits, to an external device, ability information including information indicating that post-processing by coordinate designation is unexecutable, upon condition that a transmission request for the ability information about the print apparatus is received from the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasunori Kanai
  • Publication number: 20200117410
    Abstract: A method of controlling a communication terminal including a near-field communication unit includes setting, as operation settings of the communication terminal, whether to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit and controlling to display a predetermined notification before displaying a screen for performing a login request upon condition that a user operation to transition to a screen for performing a login request to an external device has been received, and that settings have not been made in the setting of the communication terminal at least to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit as operation settings of the communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventor: Yasunori Kanai