Patents by Inventor Yo Kawano

Yo Kawano 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: 11567711
    Abstract: A printing apparatus that receives user's instructions for a plurality of print settings and controls printing, includes a reception section that receives the user's instructions, and a control section that sets the print settings based on the instructions received by the reception section and controls the printing according to the set print settings, in which the control section solves a prohibition relationship between the print settings according to different solutions depending on a state of the printing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yo Kawano
  • Patent number: 11455131
    Abstract: A printing apparatus that receives user's instructions for a plurality of print settings and controls printing performs individual error display indicating prohibition near display of print settings for n print settings having a prohibition relationship, n being one or more, and does not perform the individual error display near display of the print settings for m print settings having the prohibition relationship, m being one or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yo Kawano
  • Publication number: 20210405944
    Abstract: A printing apparatus that receives user's instructions for a plurality of print settings and controls printing, includes a control section that sets the print settings including a print setting A, a print setting B, and a print setting C based on received instructions and controls the printing according to the set print settings, and, when the print setting A has a prohibition relationship with the print setting B, the control section solves the prohibition relationship by using a solution in accordance with the print setting C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Yo KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20210405931
    Abstract: A printing apparatus that receives user's instructions for a plurality of print settings and controls printing, includes a reception section that receives the user's instructions, and a control section that sets the print settings based on the instructions received by the reception section and controls the printing according to the set print settings, in which the control section solves a prohibition relationship between the print settings according to different solutions depending on a state of the printing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Yo KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20210405932
    Abstract: A printing apparatus that receives user's instructions for a plurality of print settings and controls printing performs individual error display indicating prohibition near display of print settings for n print settings having a prohibition relationship, n being one or more, and does not perform the individual error display near display of the print settings for m print settings having the prohibition relationship, m being one or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Yo KAWANO
  • Patent number: 11115555
    Abstract: A method of producing a machine learning model includes collecting, as training data, data including an image of a document and a size of the document or a size of an actually copied output sheet from a copying apparatus that copies the document on the output sheet, and producing a model for determining whether or not a mark included in the image of the document is identifiable by a user on the document or the copied output sheet based on the training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yo Kawano, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11102363
    Abstract: An image selection function of a printer determines permission areas in which superimposition of an object is allowed, and selects a target image from among receptive images in which the object can be fitted in the determined permission areas, among a plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yo Kawano
  • Publication number: 20210203797
    Abstract: An image selection function of a printer determines permission areas in which superimposition of an object is allowed,, and selects a target image from among receptive images in which the object can be fitted in the determined permission areas, among a plurality of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventor: Yo KAWANO
  • Patent number: 11048382
    Abstract: A scanning system includes: a configurator configured to make a first setting corresponding to an image captured by a pre-scan the setting of a process accompanying scanning based on learning results acquired by machine learning using training data related to a setting of the process accompanying scanning that is applied to a scanned image; and an executor that executes the process accompanying scanning based on the first setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yo Kawano, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11003319
    Abstract: A display control device displays a user interface enabling selecting one of N (where N is an integer of 3 or more) selection options, and includes: an extractor configured to extract M (where M is an integer of 2 or more and less than N) selection options including a currently selected selection option from among N selection options; and a display controller configured to display a first screen including the M extracted selection options selectably at positions corresponding to an order of preference, and not selectably including remaining selection options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yo Kawano
  • Publication number: 20200376862
    Abstract: A printed matter production method for producing a printed matter by using a base and a cover provided with a clearance includes pinching a print medium, performing first printing on an area exposed from the clearance of the cover in the print medium, shifting a relative position, and performing second printing on an unprinted area exposed from the clearance of the cover in the print medium that is pinched again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Yo KAWANO, Yusuke KOIZUMI, Eiki SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10841446
    Abstract: At the time of copying a smaller document and a larger document on output sheets having the same size, in a first case where a first document is smaller and a second document is larger, a printing control unit analyzes a content of the second document, and copies the first document and the second document on output sheets having sizes corresponding to the analysis result. In a second case where the first document is larger and the second document is smaller, a content of the first document is analyzed, and the first document and the second document are copied on output sheets having sizes corresponding to the analysis result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yo Kawano, Yoichiro Maki
  • Patent number: 10754590
    Abstract: Provided is technology improving user convenience when changing a setting in an electronic device. An electronic device has: an evaluator module configured to determine whether or not a setting value a user set for a first setting item contained in a first settings screen matches a setting value of a second setting item that is already set; an adding module configured to add to the first settings screen, when the setting does not match, a shortcut operator that calls a second settings screen including the second setting item; and an operation reception processor configured to call, when the setting matches, the second settings screen from the first settings screen when operation of a first operator that is different from the shortcut operator is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yo Kawano
  • Publication number: 20200195807
    Abstract: A method of producing a machine learning model includes collecting, as training data, data including an image of a document and a size of the document or a size of an actually copied output sheet from a copying apparatus that copies the document on the output sheet, and producing a model for determining whether or not a mark included in the image of the document is identifiable by a user on the document or the copied output sheet based on the training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Yo KAWANO, Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20200195797
    Abstract: At the time of copying a smaller document and a larger document on output sheets having the same size, in a first case where a first document is smaller and a second document is larger, a printing control unit analyzes a content of the second document, and copies the first document and the second document on output sheets having sizes corresponding to the analysis result. In a second case where the first document is larger and the second document is smaller, a content of the first document is analyzed, and the first document and the second document are copied on output sheets having sizes corresponding to the analysis result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Yo KAWANO, Yoichiro MAKI
  • Publication number: 20200034008
    Abstract: A display control device displays a user interface enabling selecting one of N (where N is an integer of 3 or more) selection options, and includes: an extractor configured to extract M (where M is an integer of 2 or more and less than N) selection options including a currently selected selection option from among N selection options; and a display controller configured to display a first screen including the M extracted selection options selectably at positions corresponding to an order of preference, and not selectably including remaining selection options.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventor: Yo KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20200034084
    Abstract: Provided is technology improving user convenience when changing a setting in an electronic device. An electronic device has: an evaluator module configured to determine whether or not a setting value a user set for a first setting item contained in a first settings screen matches a setting value of a second setting item that is already set; an adding module configured to add to the first settings screen, when the setting does not match, a shortcut operator that calls a second settings screen including the second setting item; and an operation reception processor configured to call, when the setting matches, the second settings screen from the first settings screen when operation of a first operator that is different from the shortcut operator is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventor: Yo KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20200034007
    Abstract: A scanning system includes: a configurator configured to make a first setting corresponding to an image captured by a pre-scan the setting of a process accompanying scanning based on learning results acquired by machine learning using training data related to a setting of the process accompanying scanning that is applied to a scanned image; and an executor that executes the process accompanying scanning based on the first setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Yo Kawano, Toshifumi Sakai