Patents by Inventor Yoshiro Mihira

Yoshiro Mihira 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: 20230179717
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that communicates with a terminal includes a reception unit configured to receive from the terminal an execution instruction to execute a job using a function of the information processing apparatus, wherein the execution instruction at least includes setting information regarding the job, and a transmission unit configured to, in a case where the reception unit receives the execution instruction to execute the job and a predetermined screen is displayed on a display unit of the information processing apparatus, transmit information for the terminal to display the screen to the terminal having transmitted the execution instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Patent number: 11204726
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit and a communication control unit to execute HTTP communication to an external apparatus. The setting unit sets whether to use a proxy server. The communication control unit controls, in a case where Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) communication to the external apparatus on a personal area network is performed, executing the HTTP communication to the external apparatus by other than the proxy server, even if use of the proxy server is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Patent number: 11197141
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The information processing apparatus performs a device search, displays search results of the device search, and generates tag information to be written into a short range wireless communication tag, using identification information of a device selected by a user based on the displayed search results. Then, the information processing apparatus writes the generated tag information into the short range wireless communication tag with the short range wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiro Mihira, Takashi Yasuno
  • Publication number: 20210373824
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit and a communication control unit to execute HTTP communication to an external apparatus. The setting unit sets whether to use a proxy server. The communication control unit controls, in a case where Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) communication to the external apparatus on a personal area network is performed, executing the HTTP communication to the external apparatus by other than the proxy server, even if use of the proxy server is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Patent number: 11169755
    Abstract: When providing a web page for receiving a setting to a mobile terminal, an image forming apparatus includes, in the web page, information storable as a custom setting in the terminal in a format such as a uniform resource locator (URL). The mobile terminal stores the provided information included in the web page as a custom setting so that the stored custom setting can be reused with ease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Publication number: 20200293247
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit and a communication control unit to execute HTTP communication to an external apparatus. The setting unit sets whether to use a proxy server. The communication control unit controls, in a case where Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) communication to the external apparatus on a personal area network is performed, executing the HTTP communication to the external apparatus by other than the proxy server, even if use of the proxy server is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Patent number: 10728936
    Abstract: A mobile terminal, which has acquired communication information from an external device, using proximity wireless communication attempts connection to the external device based on the acquired communication information. If the connection attempt to the external device fails, the mobile terminal determines whether to display a message prompting a user to use a direct connection function of the external device while displaying a message notifying failure of the connection attempt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Patent number: 10705776
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit and a communication control unit to execute HTTP communication to an external apparatus. The setting unit sets whether to use a proxy server. The communication control unit controls, in a case where Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) communication to the external apparatus on a personal area network is performed, executing the HTTP communication to the external apparatus by other than the proxy server, even if use of the proxy server is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Publication number: 20200125305
    Abstract: When providing a web page for receiving a setting to a mobile terminal, an image forming apparatus includes, in the web page, information storable as a custom setting in the terminal in a format such as a uniform resource locator (URL). The mobile terminal stores the provided information included in the web page as a custom setting so that the stored custom setting can be reused with ease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Patent number: 10572204
    Abstract: A communication apparatus searches for a device by reading a two-dimensional code displayed by the device and notifies a user to use a direct wireless communication function of the device in a case where the device cannot be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Publication number: 20190357030
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The information processing apparatus performs a device search, displays search results of the device search, and generates tag information to be written into a short range wireless communication tag, using identification information of a device selected by a user based on the displayed search results. Then, the information processing apparatus writes the generated tag information into the short range wireless communication tag with the short range wireless communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiro Mihira, Takashi Yasuno
  • Patent number: 10477616
    Abstract: In a case where wireless connection to a device fails because the number of terminals in wireless connection with the device has reached a maximum number, a communication apparatus instructs the device to stop operating in a direct wireless communication mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Patent number: 10412566
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The information processing apparatus performs a device search, displays search results of the device search, and generates tag information to be written into a short range wireless communication tag, using identification information of a device selected by a user based on the displayed search results. Then, the information processing apparatus writes the generated tag information into the short range wireless communication tag with the short range wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiro Mihira, Takashi Yasuno
  • Patent number: 10394507
    Abstract: A selection screen for prompting a user to select a file selection method and including at least first and second display items for selecting a file selection method is displayed. If the first display item is selected, a screen for a file selection function provided by the application is displayed, and a file selected through the screen is determined as a file to be processed. If the second display item is selected, the file selection function provided by the OS is invoked, and a file selected through the file selection screen provided by the OS is determined as a file to be processed. Data based on the file is transmitted to the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Patent number: 10306102
    Abstract: In a case where a communication apparatus receives an instruction for making a printing apparatus stop operation of a direct wireless communication mode, the communication apparatus determines whether to make the printing apparatus stop the operation of the direct wireless communication mode based on information acquired from the printing apparatus through Bluetooth® Low Energy communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Publication number: 20190149681
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, when a receiving unit receives data from an external device, a power control unit returns a power state of the apparatus from a power saving state and a transmitting unit transmits a start instruction to a connected image forming apparatus, and when a power supply switch becomes on according to a user's operation, the power control unit returns the power state of the apparatus from the power saving state but the transmitting unit does not transmit the start instruction to the image forming apparatus. Thus, it is possible to achieve both a linkage start and an individual start for an external image processing controller and the image forming apparatus, in an image processing system including the information processing apparatus, the external image processing controller and the image forming apparatus capable of performing an image process in cooperation with others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Publication number: 20190107979
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit and a communication control unit to execute HTTP communication to an external apparatus. The setting unit sets whether to use a proxy server. The communication control unit controls, in a case where Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) communication to the external apparatus on a personal area network is performed, executing the HTTP communication to the external apparatus by other than the proxy server, even if use of the proxy server is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Patent number: 10223044
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory configured to store a first application, and one or more processors that executes the first application to search for a printer, to display a result of the search on a display, wherein first information indicating a first printer corresponding to the first application and second information indicating a second printer corresponding to a second application being different from the first application are able to be displayed as the result of the search, to set the first printer as a print destination of the first application in accordance with having selected the first information via the result of the search, and to launch the second application in accordance with having selected the second information via the result of the search in a case that the second application is installed in the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Patent number: 10203916
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a near field wireless communication function can display a screen including an icon representing the near field wireless communication function, and set, as a setting about the near field wireless communication function, one of an ON setting for enabling the near field wireless communication function and an OFF setting for disabling the near field wireless communication function. If a user operates the icon on the screen, it is determined whether the ON setting or the OFF setting has been set, and a message based on a result of the determination is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Patent number: 10178256
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, when a receiving unit receives data from an external device, a power control unit returns a power state of the apparatus from a power saving state and a transmitting unit transmits a start instruction to a connected image forming apparatus, and when a power supply switch becomes on according to a user's operation, the power control unit returns the power state of the apparatus from the power saving state but the transmitting unit does not transmit the start instruction to the image forming apparatus. Thus, it is possible to achieve both a linkage start and an individual start for an external image processing controller and the image forming apparatus, in an image processing system including the information processing apparatus, the external image processing controller and the image forming apparatus capable of performing an image process in cooperation with others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira