Patents by Inventor Yu Tomioka

Yu Tomioka 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: 10761784
    Abstract: The present invention offers a system including a transmission unit configured to transmit, based on a reception of predetermined information, first notification information for causing an audio control device to audibly notify a user of a first message related to a printing apparatus, and second notification information for causing a terminal device outside the audio control device and outside the printing apparatus to notify, through a notification screen, the user of a second message related to the printing apparatus and including a message not included in the first message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yu Tomioka
  • Patent number: 10528304
    Abstract: The server of the present invention includes one or more processors operating to: acquire first identification information to identify an image processing apparatus and second identification information to identify a source of purchase of a consumable item used by the image processing apparatus, which are transmitted from an external device; store the acquired second identification information transmitted from the external device in a storage medium in association with the first identification information; acquire the first identification information transmitted from the image processing apparatus; determine whether the acquired first identification information transmitted from the image processing apparatus is stored in the storage medium; and start a predetermined service to make an order for the consumable item with the source of purchase in a case where the first identification information transmitted from the image processing apparatus is stored in the storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yu Tomioka
  • Publication number: 20190384542
    Abstract: The present invention offers a system including a transmission unit configured to transmit, based on a reception of predetermined information, first notification information for causing an audio control device to audibly notify a user of a first message related to a printing apparatus, and second notification information for causing a terminal device outside the audio control device and outside the printing apparatus to notify, through a notification screen, the user of a second message related to the printing apparatus and including a message not included in the first message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventor: Yu Tomioka
  • Publication number: 20190384546
    Abstract: The present invention offers a server system including a transmission unit configured to, based on error information acquired, transmitting audio notification information for causing an audio control device to audibly notify a user of information about an error occurring in a communication apparatus. Control is performed such that, in a case where a plurality of errors is occurring in the communication apparatus, based on the audio notification information transmitted, information about a first error from among the plurality of errors is audibly notified to the user by the audio control device, and information about a second error different from the first error from among the plurality of errors is not audibly notified to the user by the audio control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventor: Yu Tomioka
  • Publication number: 20190384570
    Abstract: If print target content data cannot be specified based on instruction data, a transmission unit of at least one server transmits message data to inquire about a content setting item, and if the print target content data can be specified based on the instruction data, the transmission unit transmits message data to inquire about a print setting item. A voice control device outputs a message by voice based on the transmitted message data. A specifying unit of the at least one server specifies the content data based on a voice instruction accepted by the voice control device after the message is output by voice, and a printing apparatus executes printing based on print data generated based on the specified content data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventor: Yu Tomioka
  • Publication number: 20190317703
    Abstract: A print management apparatus performs an operation for a print processing in response to an instruction from a relay apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Koji Yamada, Yu Tomioka
  • Publication number: 20180239568
    Abstract: The server of the present invention includes one or more processors operating to: acquire first identification information to identify an image processing apparatus and second identification information to identify a source of purchase of a consumable item used by the image processing apparatus, which are transmitted from an external device; store the acquired second identification information transmitted from the external device in a storage medium in association with the first identification information; acquire the first identification information transmitted from the image processing apparatus; determine whether the acquired first identification information transmitted from the image processing apparatus is stored in the storage medium; and start a predetermined service to make an order for the consumable item with the source of purchase in a case where the first identification information transmitted from the image processing apparatus is stored in the storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventor: Yu Tomioka
  • Patent number: 9405494
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire timing information indicating timing at with which an object to be arranged to a template is output and corresponds to a combination of a plurality of types of attributes of the object, a first selecting unit configured to select an object corresponding to the combination, based on output timing at with which layout data is output and the timing indicated by the timing information acquired by the acquiring unit, a second selecting unit configured to select a template corresponding to at least one type of an attribute among the plurality of types, and an outputting unit configured to generate layout data with which the object selected by the first selecting unit is arranged to the template selected by the second selecting unit, and to output the generated layout data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yu Tomioka
  • Publication number: 20140009793
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire timing information indicating timing at with which an object to be arranged to a template is output and corresponds to a combination of a plurality of types of attributes of the object, a first selecting unit configured to select an object corresponding to the combination, based on output timing at with which layout data is output and the timing indicated by the timing information acquired by the acquiring unit, a second selecting unit configured to select a template corresponding to at least one type of an attribute among the plurality of types, and an outputting unit configured to generate layout data with which the object selected by the first selecting unit is arranged to the template selected by the second selecting unit, and to output the generated layout data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventor: Yu Tomioka