Canon Patents

Canon Inc. manufactures office appliances, including multifunction devices, copying machines, laser printers, and inkjet printers. It also develops imaging systems, such as digital cameras and digital video camcorders, as well as lenses and photographic accessories. Its third-largest product segment is semiconductor lithography equipment.

Canon Patents by Type
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  • Patent number: 11987046
    Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet to a printing unit configured to perform printing; a control unit configured to cause the conveyance unit to hold the sheet onto which printing was performed by the printing unit; and a receiving unit configured to receive an ejection instruction for instructing to eject the sheet. The control unit, in a case where the receiving unit receives the ejection instruction, controls the conveyance unit to eject the sheet to outside of the apparatus after a predetermined time has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryosuke Murata, Takuya Suto, Toshiro Sugiyama, Daigo Kuronuma, Kenji Shimamura, Ryo Harigae, Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Kouhei Tokuda
  • Patent number: 11987059
    Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes a tank in which ink is contained; a print head for ejecting ink supplied from the tank to perform print operation; a supply flow path for supplying ink from the tank to the print head; a collection flow path for collecting ink from the print head to the tank; and a pump provided in the supply flow path or the collection flow path. The pump is driven, during print operation, at a first speed to circulate ink within a circulation path including the tank, the supply flow path, the print head, and the collection flow path, and the pump is driven, from a start of the ink circulation until a lapse of predetermined time period, at a second speed which is faster than the first speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junya Kosuge, Yumi Mukoyama, Toshiaki Tokisawa, Tsuyoshi Saeki, Takashi Abe
  • Patent number: 11986984
    Abstract: An injection molding system including an injection molding apparatus and a conveying apparatus for conveying a mold with respect to the injection molding machine, the conveying apparatus including a support member for supporting a bottom of the mold, and a guide member located on a side of the mold for guiding the mold conveyed by the conveying apparatus, wherein the improvement to the conveying apparatus includes an adjustment member for adjusting a position of the guide member in a direction intersecting a direction of conveyance of the mold by the conveying apparatus independently from a position of the supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Virginia, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Yanahara, Koki Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11987043
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path, a printing unit configured to print an image by discharging ink to the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, a heating unit configured to, in a heating section on the conveyance path, heat the sheet on which the image has been printed by the printing unit, and a control unit configured to control the heating unit so that the heating section is changed in accordance with a print condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takuya Hamada
  • Patent number: 11987063
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: an apparatus body held by a user and provided with a printing unit configured to perform printing in a case of being moved in a first direction; a first guide unit configured to guide the movement in the first direction; a second guide unit rotatably held with respect to a structure fixed to the apparatus body and configured to guide movement in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; and a drive unit configured to be connected with the second guide unit and to rotate the second guide unit so that the structure moves to the second direction relative to the second guide unit by driving of the drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakai, Tetsuyo Ohashi, Akira Kida, Sho Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11987045
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit including a pair of rotation members that nip a roll sheet, and configured to convey the sheet by rotation of the pair of rotation members, a printing unit, and a control unit configured to, upon executing a new print job, cause the conveyance unit to perform a preparatory operation in which the sheet is conveyed in a forward direction and then conveyed in a reverse direction and stopped. If a predetermined condition is met after completion of a previous print job, the control unit causes the conveyance unit to perform the preparatory operation, and if the predetermined condition is not met after completion of a previous print job, the control unit does not cause the conveyance unit to perform the preparatory operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Suto, Toshiro Sugiyama, Ryosuke Murata, Daigo Kuronuma, Kenji Shimamura, Ryo Harigae, Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Kouhei Tokuda
  • Patent number: 11990485
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device in the present disclosure includes a first trench extending inside a semiconductor substrate from a first face of the semiconductor substrate between a first photoelectric conversion portion and a second photoelectric conversion portion arranged in a first pixel and a second trench extending from a second face of the semiconductor substrate between the first pixel and a second pixel, and the end on the second face side of the first isolation portion is located closer to the second face side than the end on the first face side of the second isolation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junya Tamaki, Keita Torii, Kazuya Igarashi
  • Patent number: 11989462
    Abstract: A printer driver communicates with a printer using a predetermined print protocol to obtain first attribute information related to printing from the printer. The print driver generates a print job conforming to the predetermined print protocol based on data received from an application and transmits the generated print job to the extension application (S606). The extension application obtains attribute information in a different form from the first attribute information (S611). The extension application displays a user interface (UI) for print settings based on at least the second attribute information (S613). The extension application generates a print job to be transmitted to the printer based on settings made via the UI and the print job received from the printer driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11989197
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires a plurality of lists including one or more rows from table data including a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows, based on a value of one column in the plurality of columns and extracts, based on a list including a predetermined search key among the acquired plurality of lists, a value corresponding to the search key. Thus, for example, even in a case where there is no character string on the right side of the search key, value information corresponding to the search key is extractable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akiko Nagahara
  • Patent number: 11988984
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording material, a controller configured to control the image forming unit, a sheet feeding tray configured to store a recording material to be supplied to the image forming unit, and a sheet feeding tray cover configured to cover an access point of the sheet feeding tray. The sheet feeding tray cover includes a user interface for inputting information into a controller unit or outputting information from the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Miho Kaiga
  • Patent number: 11989871
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to receive a first model and a second model; determine difference information that is representative of a difference between the first model and the second model and/or between the first task and the second task and/or between the first domain and the second domain; and generate a third model using the first model, the second model and the difference information, wherein the generating of the third model comprises training the third model to perform both of the first task and the second task and/or to operate on both the first domain and the second domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph Henry, Aneta Lisowska
  • Patent number: 11988846
    Abstract: An optical system includes an aperture stop, a first optical element disposed on one of an object side and an image side of the aperture stop, and a second optical element disposed on the other of the object side and the image side. Each of the first optical element and the second optical element includes an area in which a transmittance changes in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis. The following conditional expressions are satisfied: 0.60?|m1/a1|<|m2/a2|?1.40, 0.40?T1(h1)/T2(h2)<0.98, and 0.30?2×h1/?1?0.70.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiko Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 11989313
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a function including at least a print function includes a first authentication unit configured to perform authentication processing on local access to the image forming apparatus, a second authentication unit configured to perform authentication processing on remote access to the image forming apparatus, and a reception unit configured to receive separately a setting to activate multi-factor authentication processing including a plurality of authentication factors in the authentication of the local access and a setting to activate multi-factor authentication processing including a plurality of authentication factors in the authentication of the remote access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuki Narita
  • Patent number: 11989029
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for determining control values for controlling a position of a vehicle for conveying a cargo includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire first information for identifying a three-dimensional shape of the cargo based on a captured first image of the cargo, and second information for identifying, based on a captured second image of an environment where the vehicle moves, a distance between an object in the environment and the vehicle, and a determination unit configured to, based on the first information and the second information, determine the control values for preventing the cargo and the object from coming closer than a predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke Tateno, Makoto Tomioka
  • Patent number: 11988983
    Abstract: A fixing member having a base layer and a surface layer, wherein the surface layer includes a tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer, and having at least one pore communicating with an opening on an outer surface thereof. A composition containing perfluoropolyether and a fluoropolymer is contained in at least a part of the at least one pore. The fluoropolymer has a particular repeating unit composed of perfluoropolyether, and at least one structure selected from the group consisting of a T unit of siloxane and a Q unit of siloxane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei Miyauchi, Masatsugu Toyonori, Naoko Kasai, Yasuharu Notoya, Hiroki Muramatsu, Tomoyo Miyakai
  • Patent number: 11987056
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejection head including plural liquid chambers arranged in rows, each liquid chamber being provided with an orifice configured to eject liquid filling the liquid chamber and an ejection energy generating element, wherein the liquid ejection head includes: a liquid supply path that extends in a direction that the plural liquid chambers are arranged and individually communicates with the plural liquid chambers; a direction change flow path that communicates with the liquid supply path and extends in a direction transverse to the liquid supply path; and a common supply flow path that communicates with the direction change flow path and extends in a direction transverse to the direction change flow path, such that the direction change flow path includes a body portion and at least one grooved flow path, which is narrower than the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuhiko Osaki
  • Patent number: 11988973
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a normal image formation mode and a wide color gamut image formation mode in which an amount of a developer per unit area of a developer image of at least a color that differs from a prescribed color among a plurality of colors is increased as compared to the normal image formation mode. Image data is generated such that an image portion formed in the prescribed color in an image formed on a recording material is formed solely by a developer image of the prescribed color in the normal image formation mode, but formed by superimposing a developer image of a color that differs from the prescribed color on a developer image of the prescribed color or formed solely by a developer image of a different color in place of a developer image of the prescribed color in the wide color gamut image formation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kita, Kazuhiro Funatani
  • Patent number: 11987658
    Abstract: A curable resin composition that is capable of forming a cured product having impact resistance and a high elastic modulus, and has a low viscosity, thereby being suitable for three-dimensional shaping. The curable resin composition contains: (A) an ?-(unsaturated alkoxyalkyl)acrylic acid or an ester thereof; (B) a bifunctional radically polymerizable oligomer; optionally (C) a radically polymerizable compound other than the component (A) and the component (B); (D) rubber particles; and (E) a radical polymerization initiator, wherein the component (A) is represented by the following formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuho Saeki, Takayuki Hiratani, Ryo Ogawa, Kyohei Wada
  • Patent number: 11988975
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable photosensitive member, a charging member, a developing device, a blade, a detecting portion, and a controller. The controller causes the photosensitive member to rotate through one full circumference or more on the following conditions during a predetermined operation: (i) a voltage which is a discharge start voltage or more is applied to the charging member, and (ii) an operation condition of the developing device is a first condition on which an amount of fog toner deposited from the developer carrying member on the photosensitive member is less than an amount of the fog toner in a second condition which is an operation condition of the developing device during a sheet interval before the image formation during the continuous image formation is interrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Takeuchi, Yukari Shibuya, Tatsuya Inoue
  • Patent number: 11987691
    Abstract: A resin molded article including an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer resin and carbon black as primary components. After the resin molded article is heated from 25 degrees Celsius to 100 degrees Celsius and then cooled to 25 degrees Celsius, the shrinkage factor of the resin molded article at 25 degrees Celsius cooled after heated to 100 degrees Celsius relative to the resin molded article at 25 degrees Celsius before heated is less than or equal to 2.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Yane, Kento Tsuda, Daisuke Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11988976
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a first scan beam from a first light source; and a control unit. The control unit performs corrections in which a light emission period of scan beams per pixel is changed in accordance with which section is scanned by the scan beams, and performs corrections in which a light exposure amount by which the photosensitive member is exposed to light by the scan beams is changed in accordance with which section in the main scanning direction is scanned by the scan beams. Based on a detection timing at which the detection unit has detected the first scan beam, the control unit controls scan start timings at which the scan beams start scanning of the photosensitive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fukuhara, Takashi Kawana, Chihiro Shirakawa
  • Patent number: 11988956
    Abstract: The present invention provides a measurement method including while driving a measurement target region of a surface of a substrate in a first direction with respect to a measurement unit, obtaining first measurement information indicating a height of the measurement target region in each of a plurality of first measurement lines parallel to the first direction and different from each other by measuring each measurement line by the measurement unit, and while driving the measurement target region with respect to the measurement unit in a second direction crossing all of the plurality of first measurement lines, obtaining second measurement information indicating a height of the measurement target region in one second measurement line parallel to the second direction by measuring the second measurement line by the measurement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi Shudo, Masataka Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 11988979
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprising: an image bearing member, a developing member that forms a toner image with a toner including a metal soap having a polarity opposite to that of the toner, a supply member that supplies the toner to the developing member, and a control unit that executes a metal soap supply operation of supplying the metal soap from the developing member to the image bearing member when an operation other than the image forming operation is executed, wherein the metal soap supply operation includes a first mode and a second mode, and a potential difference between the supply member and the developing member, which causes an electrostatic force in the direction from the supply member to the developing member to act on the metal soap, is smaller in the metal soap supply operation in the second mode than in the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Taniguchi, Bunro Noguchi, Shinichi Agata, Kodai Hayashi, Keitaro Nakata
  • Patent number: 11988974
    Abstract: A movable member includes a frame, a mounting portion, a rotatable image bearing member, a charging member, and a cleaning member. The cleaning member includes a base portion including a first surface positioned on one side of the frame, a second surface positioned on the other side of the frame, and a third surface, and includes a projected portion. The projected portion includes a first side surface positioned on the aforementioned the other side and a second side surface positioned on the aforementioned one side. The first side surface is positioned between the first surface and the second surface. The first side surface constitutes an end surface of the projected portion on the aforementioned the other side with respect to the axial direction, and the second side surface constitutes an end surface of the projected portion on the aforementioned one side with respect to the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutaka Sueshige, Daisuke Abe
  • Patent number: 11988895
    Abstract: An observation optical system includes, in order from a display panel side to an observation side, a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, and a third lens having a positive refractive power, and an optical path brancher configured to branch an optical path, and disposed between a display panel and the first lens. An absolute value of a radius of curvature of a lens surface on the observation side of the first lens is smaller than that on the display panel side of the first lens. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuichi Mogi
  • Patent number: 11988982
    Abstract: A heater includes a substrate, a first heating element and a second heating element disposed on a first surface of the substrate, a temperature detection element, and a conductor. The temperature detection element is disposed on a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface of the substrate. The conductor is disposed on the second surface and connected to the temperature detection element. The first heating element has a first distance from the temperature detection element in a lateral direction of the substrate orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the substrate, and the second heating element has a second distance that is greater than the first distance from the temperature detection element in the lateral direction. As viewed in a thickness direction of the substrate orthogonal to the lateral direction and the longitudinal direction of the substrate, the conductor overlaps the first heating element and the second heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Nishida, Masahito Omata, Isamu Takeda, Takao Kume
  • Patent number: 11991453
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device unit including imaging regions for each of which exposure conditions are individually controllable, a calculation unit configured to calculate, for positions on the solid-state imaging device, a movement amount between a first position on the solid-state imaging device unit, corresponding to a portion in an image captured at a present imaging, and a second position on the solid-state imaging device unit, corresponding to the same portion in an image captured for a next imaging, and calculate a direction in which the first and second positions move based on control information directed to the image capturing apparatus, and a determination unit configured to determine the exposure conditions for each of the imaging regions to be used for the next imaging based on luminance distribution information about a captured image at the present imaging, the movement amount, and the calculated direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Aihiko Numata
  • Patent number: 11989470
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image distribution device and a printing device. The printing device forms a print image by combining a frame image data and a variable data, which are included in print image data managed by the image distribution device, the frame image data includes an image applied commonly to a plurality of print materials, and the variable data includes information changed for each print material. The printing device generates a list of pieces of attribute information about respective ones of a series of print images formed based on the print image data, and the pieces of attribute information are arranged in accordance with order in which the series of print images are printed and are presented as information that a user can identify. The printing device performs control so that respective ones of the series of print images and the list are printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Morita
  • Patent number: 11991327
    Abstract: An image reading device includes first glass, an adjacent portion adjacent to the first glass, a reading unit, and a position reference portion. The first glass enables an document to be placed on a front surface side of the document. The reading unit is capable of being in contact with at least one of the adjacent portion and the first glass and reads, from a back surface side of the first glass, the document placed on the first glass by using a sensor while moving from the adjacent portion side in a movement direction. The position reference portion is disposed on the front surface side of the first glass and serves as a reference of a position of the reading unit in the movement direction. When the position reference portion is read by the reading unit, the reading unit is in contact with the adjacent portion and the first glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigeru Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 11990495
    Abstract: An image capturing unit includes a plurality of input wiring lines for controlling the semiconductor chip, a plurality of first electrodes connecting to the input wiring lines, and an input connector connecting to the input wiring lines. The substrate includes a first area for mounting an electronic component in an opposite surface on which the semiconductor chip is mounted and a second area for use in mounting the semiconductor chip. The connector is disposed in the first area. At least one or more of the first electrodes are disposed in the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takafumi Kishi
  • Patent number: 11991324
    Abstract: A document reading apparatus includes a stacking portion on which a plurality of documents are stacked, a feeding unit configured to feed the plurality of documents in a feeding direction, a reading unit configured to read the documents, a drive source configured to drive the feeding unit, and a control unit configured to execute a mode in which the plurality of documents having different sizes are fed by the feeding unit and read by the reading unit. The control unit is configured to control the drive source in the mode such that the feeding unit feeds a first document at a first feeding speed, and the feeding unit feeds a second document following the first document at a second feeding speed higher than the first feeding speed in a case where the width of the first document is larger than a predetermined width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidenori Sunada
  • Patent number: 11989862
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a control unit that controls an image capturing device and an illumination device that includes multiple light sources, and obtains a first number of reference images corresponding to the first number of the light sources being less than the multiple light sources; and a generation unit that generates correction data for correcting illuminance unevenness of a target image based on the first number of the reference images, which is obtained by capturing an image of a measurement target object different from the reference object while turning on a light source of interest out of the multiple light sources. The generation unit generates the correction data corresponding to a light source not included in the first number of the light sources by carrying out interpolation processing while using at least two reference images out of the first number of the reference images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Shibasaki
  • Patent number: 11991325
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus having a reading device to read an image from a sheet includes one or more controllers to perform operations. One image is read from one sheet by using the reading device. Edge detection processing is executed on the one image. At least one pair of edges is determined from among a plurality of edges based on information of the plurality of edges detected in the edge detection processing and size information of the one sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirokazu Tamura, Satoshi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11990490
    Abstract: A technique advantageous for improving an optical property of a photoelectric conversion apparatus is provided. The photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a photoelectric conversion layer and a light-shielding film that covers the photoelectric conversion layer, wherein the light-shielding film includes one metallic layer and another metallic layer located between the one metallic layer and the photoelectric conversion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsutomu Tange, Toshiyuki Ogawa, Hideaki Ishino, Yusuke Onuki
  • Patent number: 11990775
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first authentication unit that performs an authentication process for determining whether an external apparatus is a predetermined external apparatus, a second authentication unit that performs an authentication process for determining whether a battery connected to the external apparatus is a predetermined battery, and a control unit that permits the battery to be discharged but restricts the battery from being charged regardless of whether the battery is the predetermined battery, in a case where the external apparatus is not authenticated as the predetermined external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kento Inai, Hiroshi Moritomo, Sho Ichikawa, Kenichirou Hayashi, Shigeo Aoyagi, Sayaka Kumon, Hirokazu Izuoka, Akira Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11990402
    Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus comprising a first substrate, a second substrate coupled with the first substrate via an insulating member, a third substrate coupled to the first substrate and disposed on the opposite side to the second substrate and a conductive layer including an electrode disposed between the first and second substrate is provided. A through via is disposed so as to pass through the second substrate and a part of the insulating member to reach the electrode. An opening is arranged overlapping the electrode in the first substrate and a part of the insulating member. First and second resin layers are disposed between the electrode and the third substrate, and the first resin layer is disposed within the opening, is disposed between the electrode and the second resin layer and has a different Young's modulus from the second resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuichi Kazue
  • Patent number: 11991353
    Abstract: A method of controlling an Adaptive Loop Filter comprises obtaining for a slice containing one or more coding tree blocks, data indicating a number of available alternative chroma filters, obtaining for a coding tree block in the slice, an alternative filter index identifying one of the available alternative chroma filters, and selecting the alternative chroma filter identified by the index to filter chroma image data in the coding tree block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jonathan Taquet, Christophe Gisquet, Guillaume Laroche, Patrice Onno
  • Patent number: 11991773
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a transition unit and a control unit. In a case where a wireless communication path to each of a first base station and a second base station is established, the transition unit transitions from an RRC_CONNECTED state to an RRC_INACTIVE state compliant with a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard. In a case where the transition unit transitions to the RRC_INACTIVE state, the control unit performs control to selectively execute operating in a first mode for waiting for a notification signal from each of the first and second base stations or operating in a second mode for waiting for a notification signal from either the first base station or the second base station, based on a state of the communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Hamada
  • Patent number: 11991336
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of preventing damage and loss of an audit log when an attack due to an unauthorized access is detected is provided. The information processing apparatus having one or multiple functions includes a controller configured or programmed to function as a recording unit that records an audit log for each type corresponding to the one or multiple functions, a judging unit that, when an access request to the audit log is received, judges whether or not the access request is an unauthorized access, and a control unit that, in a case that a judgement result of the judging unit indicates that the access request is the unauthorized access, performs a stopping control to stop a function related to the type of the audit log that has received the access request, among the one or multiple functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi Kanematsu
  • Patent number: 11990011
    Abstract: A camera cover is provided. The camera cover has a coating formed on a surface of the camera cover. The coating contains a urethane acrylate resin. The camera cover has a dome shape and is designed to protect an image capturing unit. A Berkovich hardness at an indenter penetration depth of 100 to 300 nm on a surface of the coating is at least 0.4 GPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kinya Kamiguchi
  • Patent number: 11991332
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a fax function and a communication function includes at least one memory storing instructions, and at least one processor executing the instructions causing the image forming apparatus to set a first setting for transfer of data in a case where the data is received using the fax function, perform a transfer process of transferring the data received using the fax function based on the first setting, and transmit, using the communication function, information pertaining to the transfer process to an external apparatus that provides a message sharing service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 11990155
    Abstract: An editing apparatus includes an editing unit configured to edit an additional information file related to a moving image file, and a control unit configured to perform control so as not to permit editing of the additional information file in a case where the additional information file is a file requiring repair processing or the moving image file related to the additional information file is a file requiring the repair processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hitoshi Mizutani
  • Patent number: 11991321
    Abstract: A mobile terminal improved in operability concerning fax transmission. A CPU of the mobile terminal sets information indicative of a fax transmission destination, sets reading and transmission information concerning fax transmission and original reading, and sends a request for fax transmission, to an image forming apparatus. When a response notifying capability of fax transmission is received from the apparatus, the CPU causes a message for prompting a user to set an original, to be displayed on a display section. When the original has been set and an instruction for fax transmission from the user is received, the CPU sends an instruction for reading the original and executing fax transmission, together with the transmission destination information, and the reading and transmission information, to the apparatus. The CPU causes a result of fax transmission by the apparatus to be displayed on the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Utsumi, Kazuhiro Oyoshi
  • Patent number: 11991454
    Abstract: An image capturing control apparatus to control image capturing of an image capturing apparatus includes a first instruction unit configured to instruct the image capturing apparatus to capture a first image by applying an exposure time to each region on an image capturing surface divided into a plurality of regions, a calculation unit configured to calculate an exposure time to be equally applied to the plurality of regions based on the exposure time applied to each region in the first image, and a second instruction unit configured to instruct the image capturing apparatus to capture a second image by equally applying the exposure time calculated by the calculation unit to the plurality of regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 11991331
    Abstract: A server presents a first setting screen for entering settings relating to target image data for transmission, transmits the target image data to a cloud service in accordance with the settings, stores the settings associated with a type of the target image data and information of a user, and presents a second setting screen for selecting whether or not to use settings identical to any stored settings for new target image data. When presenting the first setting screen, the server presents it in a state in which, from the stored settings which the user selected to use settings identical to, a type of image data is omitted and settings required for transmission have been reflected. The server stores a type of the new target image data added to and associated with the selected stored settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenta Inoue
  • Patent number: 11991334
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that cooperates with a management service and a blockchain service generates, in printing a document stored in the management service, one or more embedded images based on existence proof information and tampering detection information, registers the existence proof information and the tampering detection information with the blockchain service, performs printing of the document with the one or more embedded images embedded therein, and, when verifying a printed product obtained by the printing, performs two verifications indicating that information about the printed product exists in the blockchain service and that there is no tampering in the printed product, by decoding the one or more embedded images included in the printed product to acquire the existence proof information and the tampering detection information and making an inquiry about the existence proof information and the tampering detection information registered in blocks of the blockchain service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shiro Kunori
  • Patent number: 11991678
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication apparatus that is able to perform a first wireless communication and a second wireless communication, the second wireless communication having power consumption lower than that of the first wireless communication. The wireless communication apparatus receives, from another wireless communication apparatus through the second wireless communication, information indicating a channel which the another wireless communication apparatus is able to use in the first wireless communication, selects a communication parameter to be provided to the another wireless communication apparatus based on the received information, the communication parameter being required by the another wireless communication apparatus to connect to an apparatus that forms a network in which the first wireless communication occurs; and transmits the selected communication parameter to the another wireless communication apparatus through the first wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Umehara
  • Patent number: D1027989
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoki Wada, Akane Sakamoto
  • Patent number: D1027990
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoki Wada, Akane Sakamoto
  • Patent number: D1028075
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Masaaki Sato, Shinjiro Toba, Yuichi Fukui, Goshi Ozaki, Sohta Sugimoto, Mitsuhiro Sato