Patents by Inventor Yusuke Hashii
Yusuke Hashii 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: 10748246Abstract: An object of the present invention is to implement a bit pattern capable of specifying a plurality of colors while storing information on a shape. The present invention is an image processing apparatus that converts image data in a bitmap format into data including a bit pattern, the apparatus including: a creation unit configured to create, based on pixel values of pixels within an image area of a predetermined size within the image data, the bit pattern storing shape information on the image area, which specifies to which of a plurality of kinds of pixel each pixel within the image area corresponds, and color information on the image area, which specifies a number of colors in accordance with a kind of pixel specified by the shape information, and the number in accordance with a kind of pixel specified by the shape information is smaller than a total number of pixels within the image area.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yusuke Hashii, Yuta Ikeshima, Ryosuke Iguchi, Shinjiro Hori, Manabu Yamazoe, Akitoshi Yamada
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Publication number: 20190347841Abstract: An apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire main object information specifying a main object in generation of a layout image, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire object correlation information specifying an object having a correlation with the main object, an extraction unit configured to extract at least one image including the main object and at least one image including the object having the correlation with the main object from a plurality of images based on the acquired main object information and the acquired object correlation information acquired, and a generation unit configured to generate, using a layout template, a layout image in which the at least one image extracted by the extraction unit and including the main object and the at least one image extracted by the extraction unit and including the object having the correlation with the main object are laid out therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventors: Minako Kato, Kiyoshi Umeda, Hiroyuki Sakai, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Yusuke Hashii, Naoki Sumi
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Patent number: 10395407Abstract: An apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire main object information specifying a main object in generation of a layout image, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire object correlation information specifying an object having a correlation with the main object, an extraction unit configured to extract at least one image including the main object and at least one image including the object having the correlation with the main object from a plurality of images based on the acquired main object information and the acquired object correlation information acquired, and a generation unit configured to generate, using a layout template, a layout image in which the at least one image extracted by the extraction unit and including the main object and the at least one image extracted by the extraction unit and including the object having the correlation with the main object are laid out therein.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Minako Kato, Kiyoshi Umeda, Hiroyuki Sakai, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Yusuke Hashii, Naoki Sumi
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Patent number: 10127436Abstract: Images of a layout target for a template are acquired. The plurality of acquired images are edited using editing processing corresponding to a category corresponding to a layout. The edited images are arranged on the template corresponding to the category.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeru Sasaki, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Yusuke Hashii, Hiroyuki Sakai, Naoki Sumi, Kiyoshi Umeda
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Patent number: 10071558Abstract: A system comprises: an obtaining unit that obtains predetermined information relating to amount of printing materials for a tank attached to a printing apparatus; and a determining unit that determines an interchangeable tank to be provided from a plurality of types of interchangeable tanks based on the predetermined information, wherein the plurality of types of interchangeable tanks include a first tank and a second tank, the first tank contains printing materials of at least two colors, with a ratio of amounts of the printing materials of the at least two colors being a first constituent ratio, and the second tank contains printing materials of at least the same two colors as those in the first tank, with a ratio of amounts of the printing materials of at least the two colors being a second constituent ratio different from the first constituent ratio.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeru Sasaki, Yusuke Hashii, Akitoshi Yamada, Kentaro Yano, Takayuki Aizawa
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Patent number: 10055640Abstract: An apparatus extracts feature information from an object of image data. The apparatus registers the extracted feature information in a dictionary. The apparatus refers to the dictionary and determines a similarity between feature information registered in the dictionary and the extracted feature information. The apparatus does not use, of feature information to be registered in the dictionary, feature information not satisfying a predetermined evaluation criterion in similarity determination.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Nakamura, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Tetsuya Suwa, Takashi Fujita, Kiyoshi Umeda, Yusuke Hashii, Hiroyuki Sakai, Naoki Sumi
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Patent number: 10013395Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory to store a program and a processor to execute the program stored in the memory. The processor selects randomly output target images from output target candidate images and generates a plurality of layout images, each of which is generated by laying out the selected output target image. A template includes at least one image layout area. The processor determines a layout image from the generated plurality of layout images, by evaluating the selected target images included in each of the generated plurality of layout images according to both of first information corresponding to a user's evaluations for each of the selected output target images and second information based on an output history of each of the selected output target images in accordance with user designations. The processor outputs the determined layout image.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuto Kajiwara, Hiroyuki Sakai, Yusuke Hashii, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Naoki Sumi, Kiyoshi Umeda
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Publication number: 20180174271Abstract: An object of the present invention is to implement a bit pattern capable of specifying a plurality of colors while storing information on a shape. The present invention is an image processing apparatus that converts image data in a bitmap format into data including a bit pattern, the apparatus including: a creation unit configured to create, based on pixel values of pixels within an image area of a predetermined size within the image data, the bit pattern storing shape information on the image area, which specifies to which of a plurality of kinds of pixel each pixel within the image area corresponds, and color information on the image area, which specifies a number of colors in accordance with a kind of pixel specified by the shape information, and the number in accordance with a kind of pixel specified by the shape information is smaller than a total number of pixels within the image area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2017Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: Yusuke Hashii, Yuta Ikeshima, Ryosuke Iguchi, Shinjiro Hori, Manabu Yamazoe, Akitoshi Yamada
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Publication number: 20180068176Abstract: Images of a layout target for a template are acquired. The plurality of acquired images are edited using editing processing corresponding to a category corresponding to a layout. The edited images are arranged on the template corresponding to the category.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Inventors: Takeru Sasaki, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Yusuke Hashii, Hiroyuki Sakai, Naoki Sumi, Kiyoshi Umeda
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Patent number: 9904879Abstract: An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one image group including at least one image; a creating unit configured to create a layout candidate by laying out images included in an image group that has been acquired by the acquisition unit; an evaluating unit configured to evaluate the layout candidate created by the creating unit, based on individual evaluation of each of the images in accordance with a feature of a subject in the images that have been laid out in layouts; and an output unit configured to output the layout candidate created by the creating unit, at a predetermined output size. The feature of the subject in the images includes a size of the subject in the image identified by an output size of the layout candidate output by the output unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2014Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshinori Kawai, Yusuke Hashii, Kiyoshi Umeda, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Hiroyuki Sakai, Naoki Sumi, Tohru Ikeda
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Patent number: 9852325Abstract: Images of a layout target for a template are acquired. The plurality of acquired images are edited using editing processing corresponding to a category corresponding to a layout. The edited images are arranged on the template corresponding to the category.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeru Sasaki, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Yusuke Hashii, Hiroyuki Sakai, Naoki Sumi, Kiyoshi Umeda
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Patent number: 9846681Abstract: An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image group including a plurality of images, a specifying unit configured to specify feature information of each of the images, a generation unit configured to generate a plurality of layout candidates by arranging images selected from the acquired image group, an evaluation unit configured to evaluate each of the layout candidates generated by the generation unit based on a plurality of evaluation standards including an image evaluation based on the feature information of each image arranged in the layout candidate and an overall evaluation of the layout candidate, and a determination unit configured to select and determine a layout to be output from the plurality of layout candidates based on a result of evaluation by the evaluation unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yusuke Hashii, Kiyoshi Umeda, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Hiroyuki Sakai, Naoki Sumi
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Publication number: 20170337721Abstract: An apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire main object information specifying a main object in generation of a layout image, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire object correlation information specifying an object having a correlation with the main object, an extraction unit configured to extract at least one image including the main object and at least one image including the object having the correlation with the main object from a plurality of images based on the acquired main object information and the acquired object correlation information acquired, and a generation unit configured to generate, using a layout template, a layout image in which the at least one image extracted by the extraction unit and including the main object and the at least one image extracted by the extraction unit and including the object having the correlation with the main object are laid out therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: Minako Kato, Kiyoshi Umeda, Hiroyuki Sakai, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Yusuke Hashii, Naoki Sumi
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Patent number: 9815274Abstract: A dividing unit generates, from input data, divided data corresponding to the first area and the second area to be printed by a recording head and partly overlapping each other. The dividing unit supplies the respective divided data to the first processing unit and the second processing unit which can concurrently perform processing. Each of the first and second processing units generates the recording image data from the divided data based on a characteristic of the recording head corresponding to a recording area assigned to one of the processing units and a partial area assigned to the other processing unit. Each of the first and second processing units then performs driving control on the recording head based on data, in generated recording image data, which corresponds to an area recorded by one of the processing units.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2016Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kouta Murasawa, Shinichi Miyazaki, Yusuke Hashii, Yugo Mochizuki, Mayuko Yamagata, Akitoshi Yamada, Masao Kato
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Publication number: 20170282586Abstract: A system comprises: an obtaining unit that obtains predetermined information relating to amount of printing materials for a tank attached to a printing apparatus; and a determining unit that determines an interchangeable tank to be provided from a plurality of types of interchangeable tanks based on the predetermined information, wherein the plurality of types of interchangeable tanks include a first tank and a second tank, the first tank contains printing materials of at least two colors, with a ratio of amounts of the printing materials of the at least two colors being a first constituent ratio, and the second tank contains printing materials of at least the same two colors as those in the first tank, with a ratio of amounts of the printing materials of at least the two colors being a second constituent ratio different from the first constituent ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Takeru Sasaki, Yusuke Hashii, Akitoshi Yamada, Kentaro Yano, Takayuki Aizawa
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Patent number: 9761031Abstract: An apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire main object information specifying a main object in generation of a layout image, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire object correlation information specifying an object having a correlation with the main object, an extraction unit configured to extract at least one image including the main object and at least one image including the object having the correlation with the main object from a plurality of images based on the acquired main object information and the acquired object correlation information acquired, and a generation unit configured to generate, using a layout template, a layout image in which the at least one image extracted by the extraction unit and including the main object and the at least one image extracted by the extraction unit and including the object having the correlation with the main object are laid out therein.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Minako Kato, Kiyoshi Umeda, Hiroyuki Sakai, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Yusuke Hashii, Naoki Sumi
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Patent number: 9672450Abstract: An image recording apparatus according to this invention analyzes image data to be printed, and generates sequence information for defining the moving range of each scanning motion of a recording head and the conveyance amount of a recording medium. The apparatus divides a recording area defined by the generated sequence information into areas so that the processing amounts of a plurality of processing units capable of parallelly executing processes are equal to each other, distributes data of the divided areas to the processing units, and causes each of the processing units to generate recording image data. The apparatus performs recording by controlling driving and a scanning motion of the recording head and conveyance of the recording medium based on the recording image data obtained by the processing units.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yusuke Hashii, Yugo Mochizuki, Kouta Murasawa, Shinichi Miyazaki, Mayuko Yamagata, Akitoshi Yamada, Masao Kato
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Publication number: 20170083756Abstract: An apparatus extracts feature information from an object of image data. The apparatus registers the extracted feature information in a dictionary. The apparatus refers to the dictionary and determines a similarity between feature information registered in the dictionary and the extracted feature information. The apparatus does not use, of feature information to be registered in the dictionary, feature information not satisfying a predetermined evaluation criterion in similarity determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: Takashi Nakamura, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Tetsuya Suwa, Takashi Fujita, Kiyoshi Umeda, Yusuke Hashii, Hiroyuki Sakai, Naoki Sumi
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Publication number: 20170066233Abstract: A dividing unit generates, from input data, divided data corresponding to the first area and the second area to be printed by a recording head and partly overlapping each other. The dividing unit supplies the respective divided data to the first processing unit and the second processing unit which can concurrently perform processing. Each of the first and second processing units generates the recording image data from the divided data based on a characteristic of the recording head corresponding to a recording area assigned to one of the processing units and a partial area assigned to the other processing unit. Each of the first and second processing units then performs driving control on the recording head based on data, in generated recording image data, which corresponds to an area recorded by one of the processing units.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2016Publication date: March 9, 2017Inventors: Kouta MURASAWA, Shinichi MIYAZAKI, Yusuke HASHII, Yugo MOCHIZUKI, Mayuko YAMAGATA, Akitoshi YAMADA, Masao KATO
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Patent number: 9563823Abstract: An apparatus includes a first management unit configured to classify and manage feature information of a plurality of objects extracted from image data in units of similar feature information, a second management unit configured to classify and manage the plurality of objects extracted from the image data object by object, an association unit configured to associate the objects in the first management unit with feature information in the second management unit, and an input unit configured to input a correction instruction about classifications of the objects by the second management unit. The second management unit is configured to, if the correction instruction is input, correct and manage a classification to which a target object of the correction instruction belongs and the first management unit is configured to change and manage a classification to which feature information associated with the target object of the correction instruction belongs.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kiyoshi Umeda, Yusuke Hashii, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Hiroyuki Sakai, Naoki Sumi