Patents by Inventor Yoshihito Nanaumi
Yoshihito Nanaumi 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: 8570574Abstract: A processing system may include a server group connectable to an image forming apparatus, a request processing unit, a backend processing unit, a receiving unit, a determination unit, and a sending unit. The receiving unit receives information relating to a document file corresponding to a processing request from the image forming apparatus. If the determination unit determines that that the processing method is a synchronous processing method, then the request processing unit processes the document file based on the processing request. If the determination unit determines that that the processing method is an asynchronous processing method, then the request processing unit requests the backend processing unit to process the processing request. After the document file has been processed according to the determined processing method, the sending unit sends a notification to the image forming apparatus that the document file has been processed.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Publication number: 20130258399Abstract: A mobile terminal is connected to a server and an image forming device that store image forming device information in such a manner that the mobile terminal can communicate with the server and the image forming device. The mobile terminal acquires image forming device information from the selected server and/or image forming device. When the acquired image forming device information includes duplication of an image forming device, an image forming device list is generated by removing the duplication. Information of an image forming device to be used is displayed on a user interface of the mobile terminal. A usable image forming device is selected and presented to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Publication number: 20130263137Abstract: It is determined whether an instruction for initial activation of an application is issued by a user or an operating system (step S702). If the instruction is issued by the user, a splash screen is displayed (step S715). If the instruction is issued by the operating system, the application is to be resident without displaying the splash screen (step S704). If a user issues an activation instruction with respect to the resident application (step S705), it is determined whether a screen display based on the activation instruction from the user is a first time or not (step S706). If it is not the first time, the splash screen is not displayed, and whereas if it is the first time, the splash screen is displayed (step S707).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Patent number: 8482757Abstract: Data to be printed in accordance with a print instruction is acquired by referring to management information on data containing the storage positions of the data which are managed on storage media and managed in image forming apparatuses on the network including the image forming apparatus and an external image forming apparatus. The acquired data is printed. The first print count when the image forming apparatus acquires the data to be printed from the external image forming apparatus and prints the data in the print step is compared with the second print count of the data in the external image forming apparatus. The data acquired from the external image forming apparatus is stored in a storage device as master data to be managed by the storage device in the image forming apparatus on the basis of the comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2006Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Patent number: 8402265Abstract: At an apparatus, a reading unit reads a document a generation unit and generates a content data from the document and an encryption unit performs encryption processing on the content data using an encryption key and a transmission unit, when an instruction for not using a service for performing processing on the content data provided by a server group and for storing the generated content data in the server group is received, transmits to the server group the content data on which the encryption processing has been performed, and, when an instruction for using the service is received, transmits to the server group the content data on which the encryption processing has not been performed.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2011Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Publication number: 20130009967Abstract: A mobile terminal including a display unit and communicably connected to a storage apparatus storing setting information of a user interface for an information processing terminal for receiving a user operation to data in the information processing terminal. The mobile terminal includes an acquisition unit and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires the setting information from the storage apparatus. The control unit displays a user interface for the mobile terminal using the setting information on the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Patent number: 8191127Abstract: When authentication processing has succeeded between different authentication domains in an information processing apparatus, authentication information between the different authentication domains is registered in association with user-related information. When a data conversion is performed between the different authentication domains, the data conversion of the user-related information is carried out based upon the registered authentication information.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2010Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Publication number: 20120120437Abstract: A print relay system capable of executing a communication between a print service system configured to provide a print setting screen to an information terminal operated by a user, to receive a print setting set by the user via the provided print setting screen, and to generate a print job based on the received print setting and stored settings for an image forming apparatus configured to output image data based on the print job includes a receiving unit configured to receive a print job, which is transmitted in a case that a print instruction is input by the information terminal to the print service system, a job updating unit configured to update the print job received by the receiving unit, and a job transmission unit configured to transmit the print job updated by the job updating unit to the image forming apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Publication number: 20120008164Abstract: A processing system may include a server group connectable to an image forming apparatus, a request processing unit, a backend processing unit, a receiving unit, a determination unit, and a sending unit. The receiving unit receives information relating to a document file corresponding to a processing request from the image forming apparatus. If the determination unit determines that that the processing method is a synchronous processing method, then the request processing unit processes the document file based on the processing request. If the determination unit determines that that the processing method is an asynchronous processing method, then the request processing unit requests the backend processing unit to process the processing request. After the document file has been processed according to the determined processing method, the sending unit sends a notification to the image forming apparatus that the document file has been processed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Publication number: 20110238981Abstract: At an apparatus, a reading unit reads a document a generation unit and generates a content data from the document and an encryption unit performs encryption processing on the content data using an encryption key and a transmission unit, when an instruction for not using a service for performing processing on the content data provided by a server group and for storing the generated content data in the server group is received, transmits to the server group the content data on which the encryption processing has been performed, and, when an instruction for using the service is received, transmits to the server group the content data on which the encryption processing has not been performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Publication number: 20110173688Abstract: When authentication processing has succeeded between different authentication domains in an information processing apparatus, authentication information between the different authentication domains is registered in association with user-related information. When a data conversion is performed between the different authentication domains, the data conversion of the user-related information is carried out based upon the registered authentication information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Publication number: 20110001999Abstract: Provided is a control method for controlling a data processing apparatus that can be connected to an external apparatus via a network. The control method includes obtaining and displaying a user interface held in the external apparatus. An instruction from a user is received via the displayed user interface. The received instructions are transmitted to the external apparatus. A session for communicating with the external apparatus is reserved when authentication of the user manipulating the data processing apparatus has succeeded. The reserved session is used to execute control to receive from the external apparatus a processing request that corresponds to the instruction transmitted to the external apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Patent number: 7805418Abstract: A data-processing apparatus for processing form data including predetermined layout information and image-forming data formed by merging variable data in the form data includes a history table for storing a corresponding relationship of each form data, between the image-forming data and the variable data used in the image-forming data; and a registering unit for registering the corresponding relationship in order to generate image-forming data.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2005Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Patent number: 7726757Abstract: The object of the present invention is to easily select a file when a user prints. In order to achieve this object, according to this invention, an information processing method in an image forming apparatus which stores a printing history in a print process, includes the steps of displaying accessible files stored in a predetermined storage location, selecting one of the displayed files (step S701), extracting, based on the printing history, a file related to the selected file (steps S703 to S706), and printing an arbitrary file of the selected and extracted files (steps S708 and S709).Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2006Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Publication number: 20100132035Abstract: In a case where a processing request corresponding to an instruction transmitted from a data processing apparatus is accepted from an external apparatus, an appropriate processing based on a processing request corresponding to an instruction made by a user who operates the data processing apparatus is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2009Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Publication number: 20090293135Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a document registration unit configured to register a document, a data extraction unit configured to extract a content of the document, a first setting unit configured to set an access right to the document to each user, and a first character string registration unit configured to register a character string for each user. In the information processing apparatus, when the document is registered by the document registration unit, the first setting unit sets an access right of a user to the document based on a result of comparison of the character string registered by the first character string registration unit with the content of the document extracted by the data extraction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2009Publication date: November 26, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Publication number: 20090080010Abstract: An image forming apparatus of this invention causes a user to select a function to be executed by the image forming apparatus and determines the priority order of a document based on the selected function, the storage location of the document, and the attribute information of the document. A document is searched for based on the selected function. The list of documents selected from documents found by a search unit is displayed based on the determined priority order. If the search unit has found documents having the same contents, a document having a highest priority order is displayed in the list.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2008Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Publication number: 20080239392Abstract: An object of this invention is to increase the convenience for a user in setting a print reservation in an image forming apparatus having a time-designated print function. To achieve the object, according to the present invention, a control method of controlling an image forming apparatus communicably connected to a plurality of information processing apparatuses having a browser function includes the storage step of storing print data, the setting step of setting information representing a timing of printing the print data (S1201), the providing step of causing the image forming apparatus to be accessed via the browser function, receive the print request of the print data, and provide an object for counting the number of print requests as a web service (S1205), and the print step of printing the print data in number based on the counted number at the set timing (S1207 to S1210).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi
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Publication number: 20070097426Abstract: Data to be printed in accordance with a print instruction is acquired by referring to management information on data containing the storage positions of the data which are managed on storage media and managed in image forming apparatuses on the network including the image forming apparatus and an external image forming apparatus. The acquired data is printed. The first print count when the image forming apparatus acquires the data to be printed from the external image forming apparatus and prints the data in the print step is compared with the second print count of the data in the external image forming apparatus. The data acquired from the external image forming apparatus is stored in a storage device as master data to be managed by the storage device in the image forming apparatus on the basis of the comparison result.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2006Publication date: May 3, 2007Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihito NANAUMI
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Publication number: 20070058027Abstract: The object of the present invention is to easily select a file when a user prints. In order to achieve this object, according to this invention, an information processing method in an image forming apparatus which stores a printing history in a print process, includes the steps of displaying accessible files stored in a predetermined storage location, selecting one of the displayed files (step S701), extracting, based on the printing history, a file related to the selected file (steps S703 to S706), and printing an arbitrary file of the selected and extracted files (steps S708 and S709).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2006Publication date: March 15, 2007Inventor: Yoshihito Nanaumi