Patents by Inventor Yoshiji Kanamoto

Yoshiji Kanamoto 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: 12099762
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus receives a first trigger frame including information about OFDMA conforming to the IEEE 802.11 standard from an external access point external to the image forming apparatus while a first mode is enabled, performs communication processing in the first mode through OFDMA conforming to the IEEE 802.11 standard based on information about the first trigger frame, and transmits, in a case where the a mode is enabled, a second trigger frame including information about OFDMA conforming to IEEE 802.11 standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiji Kanamoto
  • Patent number: 12093589
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive order data for a printed product, and content data for the order data, and a control unit configured to perform control in such a manner as to perform production of the printed product. The order data for the printed product and the content data for the order data are received at different timings. The receiving unit further receives finalized information about the content data. The control unit performs control in such a manner as to perform production of the printed product based on the order data, the content data and the finalized information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiji Kanamoto, Kimio Hayashi, Toshihiko Iida
  • Patent number: 12073130
    Abstract: A control apparatus analyzes a job used to execute print processing and acquires sheet information of a page included in the job, decides a print speed in the print processing based on the acquired information, and executes the print processing using the decided print speed. The sheet information of each of a plurality of pages included in the job is acquired, the print speed is decided based on the acquired information, and the print processing is executed using the decided print speed. Print processing is not executed during the acquisition of the sheet information of each of the plurality of pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiji Kanamoto, Shogo Higashi, Kazuo Wakai, Koichiro Manabe, Kosuke Tsujita
  • Patent number: 12019932
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided, which performs: acquiring an inspection result obtained by inspecting quality of a print product; receiving quality request data including an evaluation criterion; specifying a quality level of the print product based on the evaluation criterion included in the quality request data and the inspection result; creating quality report data including the inspection result and the quality level; and transmitting the quality report data to a predetermined external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kimio Hayashi, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Toshihiko Iida
  • 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: 20240204930
    Abstract: A communication apparatus is provided that includes a first reception unit configured to receive, while a first mode is enabled, a first trigger frame including information about orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) conforming to the IEEE 802.11 standard from an external access point external to the communication apparatus, a communication unit configured to perform communication processing in the first mode through OFDMA conforming to the IEEE 802.11 standard based on information about the first trigger frame, and a control unit configured to control, even in a case where OFDMA conforming to the IEEE 802.11 standard is enabled in the first mode, the communication apparatus so that, upon enabling of a second mode, OFDMA conforming to the IEEE 802.11 standard is not performed in a wireless communication in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventor: YOSHIJI KANAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240201914
    Abstract: A communication apparatus receives a first trigger frame including information about orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) conforming to IEEE 802.11 standard from an external access point external to the communication apparatus while a first mode is enabled, performs communication processing in the first mode through OFDMA conforming to the IEEE 802.11 standard based on information about the first trigger frame, and transmits, in a case where a second mode is enabled, a second trigger frame including information about OFDMA conforming to the IEEE 802.11 standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventor: YOSHIJI KANAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240126485
    Abstract: A controlling apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire sheet information of each of a plurality of pages included in job data for executing print processing in a printing apparatus; a decision unit configured to decide a print speed in the print processing based on the sheet information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a control unit configured to control the printing apparatus based on the print speed decided by the decision unit and data generated from the job data and processible by the printing apparatus. Even in a case where sheet types represented by the pieces of sheet information are mixed in the plurality of pages, the decision unit decides a print speed to be commonly applied to the sheet types of the plurality of pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuo Wakai, Kosuke Tsujita, Shogo Higashi, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Koichiro Manabe
  • 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: 11922079
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains a job including a plurality of pages, and a determining unit that determines a page group constituted by consecutive sheets of a same sheet type, from the plurality of pages included in the job obtained by the obtaining unit. A setting unit sets a transport speed of sheets in the page group determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shogo Higashi, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Kosuke Tsujita, Koichiro Manabe, Kazuo Wakai
  • Publication number: 20240069822
    Abstract: When the number of real-time events received from the same device exceeds a threshold value within a predetermined period of time, the monitoring server transmits a data sending request for stopping transmission of real-time events but transmitting regular events to the device. When it is determined, based on the regular events received from the device that has been stopped from transmitting real-time events, that the abnormality in the device has been resolved, a data sending request for restarting to transmit real-time events is transmitted to the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kimio Hayashi, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Toshihiko Iida
  • Publication number: 20240045627
    Abstract: A printing apparatus operable to perform printing based on print job data, the printing apparatus comprising a determination unit configured to determine a print speed for when the printing is performed, a switching unit configured to switch print speeds during the printing, and an analysis unit configured to analyze the print job data, wherein the analysis unit analyzes whether sheets that are print targets according to the print job data include a plurality of sheet types, and wherein the switching unit switches print speeds during the printing based on a productivity of printing for each sheet type when printing is performed for the sheets and a productivity of printing for a case where print speeds are switched by the switching unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: KOICHIRO MANABE, YOSHIJI KANAMOTO, KAZUO WAKAI, KOSUKE TSUJITA, SHOGO HIGASHI
  • Publication number: 20240036781
    Abstract: There is provided with an information processing apparatus. An obtaining unit obtains a job including a plurality of pages. A determining unit determines a page group constituted by consecutive sheets of a same sheet type, from the plurality of pages included in the job obtained by the obtaining unit. A setting unit sets a transport speed of sheets in the page group determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Shogo Higashi, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Kosuke Tsujita, Koichiro Manabe, Kazuo Wakai
  • Publication number: 20240028276
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus receives a first trigger frame including information about OFDMA conforming to the IEEE 802.11 standard from an external access point external to the image forming apparatus while a first mode is enabled, performs communication processing in the first mode through OFDMA conforming to the IEEE 802.11 standard based on information about the first trigger frame, and transmits, in a case where the a mode is enabled, a second trigger frame including information about OFDMA conforming to IEEE 802.11 standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventor: YOSHIJI KANAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240012589
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to analyze a job used to execute print processing and acquire sheet information of a page included in the job; and a control unit configured to decide a print speed in the print processing based on a result acquired by the acquisition unit and execute the print processing using the decided print speed. The control unit causes the acquisition unit to acquire the sheet information of each of a predetermined number of pages of a plurality of pages included in the job, accumulates the sheet information in a storage unit, decides the print speed based on the accumulated result, and executes the print processing using the decided print speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshiji Kanamoto, Shogo Higashi, Kazuo Wakai, Koichiro Manabe, Kosuke Tsujita
  • Patent number: 11836398
    Abstract: Instruction information on quality inspection of a printed matter is acquired, and it is determined whether the instruction information identifies an inspection target by identification information of an object or by coordinate information. An inspection position is identified in accordance with the determination result, and quality inspection of the printed matter is performed by using the identified inspection position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiko Iida, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Kimio Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11792332
    Abstract: A production control apparatus is provided. The production control apparatus receives a print product production instruction, determines, in accordance with the production instruction, a production apparatus to be used for print product production, determines a first inspection item according to quality requirement data received together with the production instruction and a second inspection item according to the production apparatus respectively, and regarding the print product produced by using the production apparatus, inspects the determined first inspection item and the second inspection item respectively, and obtains an inspection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihiko Iida, Yoshiji Kanamoto
  • Patent number: 11789680
    Abstract: A workflow control method is provided for processing, by an information processing apparatus, submission data in each process of a workflow to produce a print product. In the method, the submission data is accepted by the information processing apparatus. If new submission data to original submission data is submitted, it is determined whether a current processing step for the original submission data is a specific process or a process after that. If it is determined that the current processing step is the specific process or the process after that, the new submission data is not accepted, and otherwise, the new submission data is accepted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiji Kanamoto, Toshihiko Iida, Kimio Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11783148
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus receives a print job. If the print job includes instruction information for giving an instruction on a sheet setting for a sheet feed unit, the image forming apparatus makes the sheet setting for the sheet feed unit based on the instruction information. The image forming apparatus executes printing based on the print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiko Iida, Yoshiji Kanamoto
  • Patent number: 11662961
    Abstract: Delivery form information on a print product is acquired, position information indicating a position of quality inspection on the print product is generated in accordance with the acquired delivery form information, and quality report data including the position information is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiji Kanamoto, Toshihiko Iida, Kimio Hayashi