CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA patent applications on February 15th, 2024
Patent Applications by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA on February 15th, 2024
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA: 71 patent applications
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA has applied for patents in the areas of G06F3/12 (7), G06F3/0482 (6), G01S7/4865 (6), G01S17/10 (6), B41J2/14 (5)
With keywords such as: unit, apparatus, information, configured, control, based, image, member, processing, and light in patent application abstracts.
Patent Applications by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor(s): HIROSHI SAITO of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, MASARU SUGITA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, MASANORI SEKI of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): A61L2/28, C09K9/00, G01N21/80, A47L13/17, G06T7/90
Abstract: a disinfectant visualization sheet includes a base and a color developing portion disposed on the base, wherein the color developing portion contains a visualization agent of which color developing state changes with application of a disinfectant.
Inventor(s): HIROKI TAJIMA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): B41J2/14
Abstract: a liquid ejection head includes an ejection port configured to eject liquid, a liquid reservoir portion configured to supply the liquid to the ejection port, and a pressure adjustment chamber configured to communicate with the liquid reservoir portion. the pressure adjustment chamber includes an elastic deformation portion configured so that an inner volume thereof can be changed according to a gas pressure and a support portion configured to support the elastic deformation portion on the liquid reservoir portion. an area between the elastic deformation portion and the support portion has higher rigidity than the elastic deformation portion.
20240051295.LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND PRINTING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): AYAKO MARUYAMA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): B41J2/14
Abstract: provided is a liquid ejection head being suitable for liquid suction and wipe operations and enabling diaphragm plates to achieve proper amounts of displacement with low drive voltage. the liquid ejection head includes first and second substrates. ejection ports for ejecting liquid are provided at a flat first surface of the first substrate. drive elements are provided on a second surface of the first substrate. the second substrate is joined to the second surface of the first substrate, forming pressure chambers configured to be supplied with liquid. pressure-chamber forming portions of the first substrate form diaphragm plates. the liquid in the pressure chambers is ejected from the ejection ports upon displacement of the diaphragm plates. the second surface of the first substrate includes the drive elements and is uneven. in the diaphragm plate, second regions surrounding first regions provided with the ejection ports have lower rigidity than the first regions.
Inventor(s): ZENTARO TAMENAGA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): B41J2/14, B41J2/16
Abstract: a manufacturing method of a liquid ejection unit includes: arranging an electric wiring board on a print element board such that the electric wiring board abuts the print element board, the print element board including an ejection port configured to eject liquid, an energy generating element configured to generate energy for ejecting the liquid from the ejection port, and an electrode pad electrically connected to the energy generating element, the electric wiring board including a terminal for electrical connection to the electrode pad; connecting the electrode pad and the terminal to each other by using an electric connection member; and covering an electric connection portion with a sealing agent, the electric connection portion including at least the electric connection member, the electrode pad, and the terminal, in which in the connecting, the electric connection member is shaped to include at least one bending point.
Inventor(s): Koji Kitani of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): B41J2/16, B41J2/14
Abstract: a technique capable of ensuring a sealing property between channels even with downsizing is to be provided. a method for manufacturing a liquid ejection chip equipped with an ejection unit which is configured to be capable of ejecting a plurality of liquids, and a plurality of channels which are configured to separately store the plurality of liquids to be supplied to the ejection unit, includes: filling a molten resin into a mold into which a substrate in which the ejection unit is installed on one surface and a groove and a protrusion for forming the channels are formed on the other surface is loaded, and curing the molten resin, thereby forming a resin member on the protrusion with the molten resin, the resin member forming a partition separating a space within the channels adjacent to each other.
Inventor(s): TETSUSHI ISHIKAWA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): B41J2/16
Abstract: provided is a method for manufacturing a substrate bonded body in which a first substrate and a second substrate are bonded together, the first substrate forming a first portion of an element, and the second substrate forming a second portion of the element, including: a film-forming step of forming an inorganic film on a bonding face of the first substrate, the bonding face facing the second substrate, such that the bonding face has a convex shape toward the second substrate; a contact step of bringing the first substrate and the second substrate closer and into contact with each other; and a bonding step of bonding the first substrate and the second substrate by an adhesive.
Inventor(s): Shuichi Hasegawa of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Yukuo Yamaguchi of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Keisuke Iinuma of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Junichiro Iri of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): B41J2/16, B41J2/175
Abstract: a liquid discharge cartridge manufacturing method includes a first step of individually shaping a first shaped member and a second shaped member that form a housing of a liquid discharge cartridge, and a second step of joining the first shaped member and the second shaped member to be bonded to each other with molten resin. the first step includes shaping a wall section in the first shaped member, the wall section forming a recess for accommodating the molten resin, and shaping a projection in the second shaped member, the projection extending such that the projection is located at the outer side of the wall section and adjacent to the wall section, with a predetermined gap being formed between the projection and the wall section, when the first and second shaped members are joined.
20240051303.LIQUID SUPPLY DEVICE_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Seiichiro Karita of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): B41J2/175
Abstract: a liquid supply device attachable to and detachable from an image forming apparatus includes: a storage portion configured to store liquid; a supply portion configured to supply the liquid stored in the storage portion to the image forming apparatus; an atmosphere communication port opening to an outside of the liquid supply device; and a flow passage member including a connection flow passage formed therein. the liquid supply device is switchable, by movement of the flow passage member, between an open state in which the connection flow passage connects the storage portion to the atmosphere communication port, and a sealed state in which the connection flow passage does not connect the storage portion to the atmosphere communication port.
Inventor(s): RYOTA OGURA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): B41J29/38, B41J23/02
Abstract: a power supply apparatus comprises: a first power supply line; a second power supply line; a connection unit connecting the first and second power supply line and capable of operating in either a first operation mode in which power transmission between the first and second power supply lines is possible or a second operation mode in which power transmission is not possible; an electric discharge unit connected to the second power supply line and capable of operating in either a third operation mode in which a voltage of the second power supply line is dropped or a fourth operation mode in which the voltage is not dropped; a voltage monitoring unit to monitor the voltage of the second power supply line; and a control unit to control operation of the connection unit and the electric discharge unit.
Inventor(s): KEITA NAKAJIMA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KO KATAHIRA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): B65H5/06, B65H3/06, B65H3/44, B65H29/14, B65H31/02
Abstract: a sheet conveyance apparatus includes a roller pair having first and second rollers, a roller holder having first and second guided portions, and a guiding portion having first and second guides. the first and second rollers can take a first state where the first roller contacts the second roller with a predetermined force and take a second state where the predetermined force is reduced. a first direction in which the first guide guides the first guided portion is inclined relative to a second direction in which the second guide guides the second guided portion. when viewed in a rotational axis direction of the first roller with the first and second rollers in the first state, an angle formed by a straight line passing through rotational centers of the first and second rollers and the first direction is smaller than an angle formed by the straight line and the second direction.
20240052183.PHOTOCURABLE COMPOSITION_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Fei LI of Austin TX (US) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Fen Wan of Austin TX (US) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Timothy Brian STACHOWIAK of Austin TX (US) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Weijun LIU of Cedar Park TX (US) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): C09D11/101, C09D11/30, C09D11/107, B41M5/00
Abstract: a photocurable composition can comprise a polymerizable material and a photoinitiator, wherein the polymerizable material can comprise at least one multi-functional acrylate monomer in an amount of at least 75 wt % based on the total weight of the polymerizable material and at least one mono-functional monomer in an amount of at least 5 wt % based on the total weight of the polymerizable material. the at least one mono-functional monomer can have a ring parameter of at least 0.5, and a total carbon content of the photocurable composition after curing may be at least 69%. the photocurable composition may have a low thermal shrinkage after curing, a high etch resistance and be suitable for aip or nil processing.
Inventor(s): MUTSUKI KUSADA of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, MASAYUKI IKEGAMI of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KENICHI SHIIBA of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TOMOAKI ISHII of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): C09D11/322, C09D11/033, C09D11/037, C09D11/102
Abstract: provided is an aqueous ink for ink jet including: pigments; a urethane resin; and a silicone-based surfactant. the pigments include a first pigment and a second pigment, the first pigment is a naphthol as-based azo pigment and the second pigment is a quinacridone-based pigment. the urethane resin is a water-soluble urethane resin having a unit derived from a polyisocyanate, a unit derived from a polyol having no acid group and a unit derived from a polyol having an acid group. the silicone-based surfactant is at least one kind selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following respective general formulae (1) to (3), has a weight-average molecular weight of 800 or more to 10,000 or less and has an hlb value measured by griffin's method of 4 or more.
Inventor(s): MUTSUKI KUSADA of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, MASAYUKI IKEGAMI of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KENICHI SHIIBA of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TOMOAKI ISHII of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): C09D11/322, C09D11/033, C09D11/037, C09D11/102
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Inventor(s): TOMOAKI ISHII of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, MASAYUKI IKEGAMI of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KENICHI SHIIBA of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, MUTSUKI KUSADA of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): C09D11/38, C09D11/326, C09D11/322, C09D11/033, C09D11/107, C09D11/102
Abstract: provided is an aqueous ink that is suppressed from causing mist and is excellent in storage stability. the aqueous ink is an aqueous ink to be ejected from a recording head of an ink jet system through an action of thermal energy. the aqueous ink includes a first surfactant and a second surfactant. the first surfactant contains a compound represented by the following general formula (1) (in the general formula (1), “m” and “n” each independently represent an integer of 1 or more and satisfy a relationship of m+n≤10, and “a” represents an integer of 10 or more to 20 or less). the second surfactant contains an acetylene glycol compound.
Inventor(s): TOMOAKI ISHII of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, MASAYUKI IKEGAMI of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KENICHI SHIIBA of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, MUTSUKI KUSADA of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): C09D11/38, C09D11/326, C09D11/322, C09D11/033, C09D11/107, C09D11/102
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Inventor(s): Soya SAIJO of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G01J3/02, G01J3/28
Abstract: an image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor, and an optical system configured to divide light from an area extending in a first direction of an object into a plurality of lights in a section orthogonal to the first direction, and to condense the plurality of lights on an imaging surface of the image sensor. a predetermined condition is satisfied.
Inventor(s): YUKI NAKAJIMA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KENICHI NAKAO of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G01S5/02, G06K7/10, G06T5/50, G06T11/60
Abstract: a display control system includes: first wireless devices respectively attached to management targets in a real space and storing first identification information; second wireless devices installed at respective positions in the real space and storing second identification information; a reading apparatus that can read identification information from a wireless device; an estimation unit that estimates positional coordinates at which each management target is positioned based on results of reading of the first and second identification information by the reading apparatus; and a display control unit. the real space is regularly segmented into coordinate regions. the display control unit causes the display apparatus to display coordinate region information regarding coordinate regions to which positional coordinates estimated for the respective management targets belong.
20240053443.RANGE FINDING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Takashi HANASAKA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Koichi FUKUDA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Kohei OKAMOTO of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Shunichi WAKASHIMA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G01S7/481, G01S17/10, G01S7/4865
Abstract: disclosed in a range finding apparatus that can efficiently perform range finding that uses light of different wavelengths. the range finding apparatus comprises a light source device capable of concurrently emitting light of a first wavelength and light of a second wavelength that is longer than the first wavelength and computes distance information based on a time period from when range finding is started until when incident of light on a pixel of a light receiving part is detected. in a pixel array of the light receiving part, a first pixel configured to receive light of the first wavelength and a second pixel configured to receive light of the second wavelength are two-dimensionally arranged.
20240053450.RANGING DEVICE_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): YUUTA OOSHIMA of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G01S7/4865, G01S17/931, B60W30/09
Abstract: a ranging device including: a frequency distribution storage unit that stores a frequency distribution of the number of pulses detected in each predetermined bin period in time counting for each photoelectric conversion element; a region setting unit that sets a first region in which a part of the photoelectric conversion elements is arranged and a second region in which another part of the photoelectric conversion elements is arranged; and a storage condition setting unit that sets a storage condition of frequency distributions so that a class width of a first bin in a first frequency distribution corresponding to a photoelectric conversion element of the first region and a class width of a second bin in a second frequency distribution corresponding to a photoelectric conversion element of the second region are different and so that a storage capacity for the first and second frequency distributions does not exceed a predetermined value.
Inventor(s): Koichi FUKUDA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Kohei OKAMOTO of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Shunichi WAKASHIMA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Takashi HANASAKA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G01S7/487, G01S7/4863
Abstract: disclosed is a light-receiving device having a wide dynamic range. the light receiving device comprises a pixel array in which a first pixel provided with a first optical band pass filter and having a first sensitivity and a second pixel provided with a second optical band pass filter and having a second sensitivity that is lower than the first sensitivity are two-dimensionally arranged. a full width at half maximum of the second optical band pass filter is narrower than a full width at half maximum of the first optical band pass filter.
Inventor(s): Kohei OKAMOTO of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Koichi FUKUDA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Shunichi WAKASHIMA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Takashi HANASAKA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G01S17/10, G01S7/486, G01S7/481, G01C3/08
Abstract: disclosed is a light-projection device that is used for a range finding apparatus that computes a distance to an object that has reflected light, by measuring a time difference between a time when light is emitted and a time when reflected light is detected. the light-projection device comprises a light source array in which a plurality of light-emitting elements are two-dimensionally arranged and a light-projection lens that adjusts a light projection range of light emitted from the light source array. the light projection device further comprises a driving device that changes relative positions between the light source array and the light-projection lens and a light source control unit that switches on the light source array under conditions where the light source array is in different positions.
Inventor(s): Shunichi WAKASHIMA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Koichi FUKUDA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Kohei OKAMOTO of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Takashi HANASAKA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G01S17/894, G01S7/4865, G01S17/10, G01S7/486
Abstract: a range finding apparatus uses a light-receiving device in which a first pixel having a first sensitivity and a second pixel having a second sensitivity that is lower than the first sensitivity are two-dimensionally arranged. the range finding apparatus measures time periods from a predetermined time until times when light is incident on each of the first pixel and the second pixel, and computes distance information for the first pixel and the second pixel based on the measured time periods. the measurement resolution used to measure the time period for the second pixel is lower than a measurement resolution used to measure the time period for the first pixel.
Inventor(s): TAIJI TOMITA of Osaka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, MASATO OFUJI of Gunma (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G01T1/20
Abstract: a manufacturing method of a radiation imaging apparatus is provided. the radiation imaging apparatus includes a sensor substrate and a scintillator that are bonded by a bonding member. the manufacturing method includes: preparing a support substrate on which the scintillator has been formed; bonding the sensor substrate and the scintillator via the bonding member; and separating the support substrate after the bonding. the bonding is performed under reduced pressure.
Inventor(s): Naoto TAKAHASHI of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G01T1/24
Abstract: a radiation imaging apparatus comprises a radiation detector including a plurality of pixels configured to convert radiation into electrical signals, one or more of the plurality of pixels being configured to operate as a detecting pixel for detecting irradiation amounts of the radiation. the radiation imaging apparatus reduces a frequency component relating to grid stripes produced by a scattering ray removing grid included in detection values for the irradiation amounts of the radiation obtained from the plurality of detecting pixels forming a detecting pixel group.
Inventor(s): TAKASHI TAKASAKI of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, ATSUSHI IWASHITA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KOSUKE TERUI of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, RYUICHI FUJIMOTO of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TAKESHI NODA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G01T1/29
Abstract: a radiation imaging apparatus includes a pixel array having a plurality of pixels configured to detect radiation, and a controller configured to obtain a radiation generation condition related to a radiation generating apparatus during fluoroscopic imaging, and determine, during the fluoroscopic imaging, timings of a plurality of sampling and holding operations in each of the plurality of pixels in accordance with the radiation generation condition. the timing of at least one sampling and holding operation is a timing in an irradiation period of radiation, and each of the plurality of pixels includes a conversion element configured to convert radiation into an electrical signal, and a sample and hold circuit configured to sample and hold signals from the conversion element multiple times in accordance with the timings, determined by the controller, of the plurality of sampling and holding operations.
Inventor(s): Rumi ITO of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G02B7/04
Abstract: a control apparatus for an optical apparatus that includes a member and an actuator configured to drive the member includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to switch a control method for the actuator between a first control method and a second control method configured to make a driving sound generated by the actuator in the second control method smaller than a driving sound generated by the actuator in the first control method, according to a setting about sound in a case where the optical apparatus is used.
Inventor(s): Taiki HOMMA of Utsunomiya-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Satoshi MARUYAMA of Utsunomiya-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G02B7/09, G02B7/10, G02B7/14
Abstract: an optical apparatus includes a first driver configured to move a focus lens in an optical axis direction, a second driver configured to move a first driver in the optical axis direction, and a controller configured to control driving of the first driver according to a moving amount of the first driver by the second driver.
20240053591.ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Shunji IWAMOTO of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G02B15/14, G02B15/16
Abstract: a zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having negative refractive power, and a rear group including at least four lens units that move during zooming. distances between adjacent lens units change during zooming. the first lens unit is fixed relative to an image plane during zooming and during focusing. the first lens unit includes at least three lenses having positive refractive powers. a predetermined condition is satisfied.
20240053592.ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Yonghee LEE of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Tomoya YAMADA of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G02B15/14, G02B13/04, G02B13/18
Abstract: a zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power that does not move during zooming, an intermediate group that has at least two lens units moving during zooming, a lens unit having positive refractive power that moves during zooming, and a final lens unit having positive refractive power that does not move during zooming. each distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. the intermediate group includes at least one lens unit having negative refractive power and including at least three lenses. of the at least one lens unit having negative refractive power, a lens unit v disposed closest to an object includes at least one positive lens and at least one negative lens, and a lens disposed closest to the object in the lens unit v is a negative lens. a predetermined condition is satisfied.
Inventor(s): Kohei KIMURA of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G02B15/14, G02B15/20, G02B15/177
Abstract: a zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and three or more lens units. a distance between adjacent lens units varies during zooming. a predetermined condition is satisfied.
Inventor(s): MASAKI IMAI of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, MAMORU KANEISHI of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03F7/00
Abstract: an exposure apparatus for exposing a plurality of shot regions on a substrate, including a stage configured to hold and drive the substrate, and a control unit configured to control driving of the stage based on a driving profile that defines the driving of the stage, wherein the driving profile is formed by connecting a first acceleration profile that controls acceleration/deceleration of the stage in a non-exposure section that does not include an exposure section where the shot region is exposed and a second acceleration profile that controls the acceleration/deceleration of the stage in the exposure section, the second acceleration profile is formed by a curve, and the control unit determines the first acceleration profile and the second acceleration profile for each of the plurality of shot regions based on information about a size of the shot region.
20240053691.TONER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TONER_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): KENTA KAMIKURA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KOSUKE FUKUDOME of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, SHOHEI TSUDA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, SATOSHI ARIMURA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TORU ISHII of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, YUTA KOMIYA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G9/087, G03G9/083, G03G9/097, C08F212/08, C08G63/183
Abstract: a toner comprising a toner particle comprising a resin a and a resin b; wherein: the resin a is a vinyl resin having a sulfonic acid-type group, the resin b is a polyester resin; and when in analysis of the toner particle using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry, da (nm) is defined as a depth at which an abundance of the resin a in a depth of 10 nm from a toner particle surface is a maximum, ca(%) is defined as an abundance of the resin a at the depth da, cb(%) is defined as an abundance of the resin b at the depth da, ca(%) is defined as an abundance of the resin a at a depth of 75 nm and cb(%) is defined as an abundance of the resin b at a depth of 75 nm, ca, ca, cband cbsatisfy specific relationships.
20240053692.IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Tomohiro Suzuki of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Takeo Kawanami of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Akinori Mitsumata of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Tomoya Tateishi of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/08
Abstract: an image forming apparatus is configured to allow a replenishment container to be detachably attached thereto. the image forming apparatus includes a drum unit including a photosensitive drum, and a development unit. the development unit includes a development roller, a reception portion configured to receive the replenishment container. the development unit is movable relative to the drum unit. the image forming apparatus further includes a housing including an opening/closing member movable between a cover position, at which the opening/closing member covers the reception portion, and an exposing position, at which the reception portion is exposed, and a support member configured to be movable between a support position, at which the support member supports the development unit, and a retracted position, at which the support member is retracted from the support position, in conjunction with the movement of the opening/closing member.
20240053693.IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Yuki Kurosu of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/16, G03G21/16
Abstract: an image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a belt unit including a cleaning unit and an opposing roller, and a swinging mechanism. the swinging mechanism includes a swingable member which is provided in a position different from a rotation center of the opposing roller while holding the opposing roller and the cleaning unit without changing a relative positional relationship between the opposing roller and the cleaning unit and which is swingable about a swing axis.
20240053696.IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): KOHEI HAEMATSU of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TAKAHIRO UCHIYAMA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KEISUKE MOCHIZUKI of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, HIROHIKO AIBA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/20, G03G15/00
Abstract: an image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing unit including a fixing member, a heating member, and a temperature detection portion, and a control portion configured to execute warm-up processing. if a temperature of the heating member at a first timing in a period of time in which the heating member is being heated in the warm-up processing is a first temperature, a temperature of the heating member at a second timing that is in the period of time and that is later than the first timing is a second temperature, and a temperature of the heating member at a timing different from the first timing and the second timing is a third temperature, the control portion is configured to change a fixing condition used in the job, based on the first temperature, the second temperature, and the third temperature.
20240053698.IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Masashi TAKANO of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/00
Abstract: an image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit, a fixing unit, a conveyance unit, and a control unit. the control unit selectively performs a plurality of modes including a first mode and a second mode. the first mode is a mode in which, when a grammage of a sheet is a first grammage, if a leading edge of the sheet has reached the fixing unit, the control unit controls the first suction unit such that suction force of the first suction unit becomes first suction force. the second mode is a mode in which, when the grammage of the sheet is a second grammage smaller than the first grammage, if a leading edge of the sheet has reached the fixing unit, the control unit controls the first suction unit such that the suction force of the first suction unit becomes second suction force smaller than the first suction force.
Inventor(s): MASAHIRO WATANABE of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KANA SATO of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TETSUO HINO of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, RYO OGAWA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TAKAYUKI HIRATANI of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/00, G03G15/08
Abstract: an electrophotographic member comprising: a mandrel; and an elastic layer on an outer periphery of the mandrel, the elastic layer containing a polyurethane elastomer including a matrix and domains dispersed in the matrix, a parameter a and a parameter b satisfying a relationship of a<b, where the parameter a indicates a viscoelastic term of each of the plurality of domains and the parameter b indicates a viscoelastic term of the matrix, the elastic layer having a microrubber hardness at a temperature of 23� c. of 20 to 50, and in an indentation test of the elastic layer with a nanoindenter at 23� c., in which a vickers indenter is indented into the elastic layer at a load speed of 10 mn/30 sec and is maintained at a load of 10 mn for 60 seconds, followed by unloading, strain after 5 seconds from the unloading being 1 �m or less.
Inventor(s): KOUJI IKEDA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/0346
Abstract: an information processing apparatus performs control, in a first control mode, so that a first display item is displayed on a display region of a display unit, the first display item indicating a position based on inertial information of a controller. the information processing apparatus performs control, in a second control mode, so that a second display item is displayed on the display region, the second display item indicating a position according to a first operation performed on a specified operation member in a first area of the display region. the information processing apparatus performs, in a case where the position indicated by the first display item is included in a second area of the display region in the first control mode, switching from the first control mode to the second control mode in response to a specified operation.
Inventor(s): HAYATO SHIRAI of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/0482, G06F3/0483, G06F1/3231, G06F21/36
Abstract: a control apparatus includes a first display controller that displays selection areas on a display unit, a locking unit that controls the control apparatus in a locked state, a changing unit that changes the state of the control apparatus from the locked state to a released state based on input of a password in the state of the control apparatus controlled in the locked state, a second display controller that displays a second menu screen corresponding to a second selection area on the display unit based on selection of the second selection area, and a third display controller that displays the second menu screen without the input of the password in a case where the second menu screen is displayed after the change from the locked state to the released state and the first selection area is selected after the display of the second menu screen.
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Inventor(s): Hiroki Sato of Ibaraki (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/12, H04N1/00
Abstract: an information processing apparatus includes: a selection unit configured to select, based on a selection criterion, one or more first colorimetric regions in an image to be formed based on image data; an input/output control unit configured to receive a first user input for selecting one or more second colorimetric regions from the one or more first colorimetric regions selected by the selection unit; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a print job including information indicating the one or more second colorimetric regions and the image data, to an image forming apparatus.
Inventor(s): Kazunari Yamamoto of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/12
Abstract: an object is to provide a technique to make it difficult to restore data remaining in a memory by a simple method. the printing apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive a file transmitted from an external device; a volatile memory storing data included in the file in a case where the external device is a predetermined server; and an overwriting unit configured to rewrite the data with dummy data, which is stored in a sector to a limit of the capacity in the volatile memory, in a case where the sector of the volatile memory storing the data is invalid.
Inventor(s): RITSUTO SAKO of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/12
Abstract: a cloud print service specifies a job release method as a job attribute. in accordance with the job attribute, a printing apparatus controls whether a secure printing is applied or printing is to be performed without holding the print job.
Inventor(s): Satoru Nakajima of Ibaraki (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/12
Abstract: an image forming apparatus configured to include an execution function of performing authentication processing on a user and executing a stored job, which is stored in a storage device in association with the user, based on a success of the authentication processing without an instruction from the user includes one or more memories, and one or more processors that execute a set of instructions to receive a job execution request to execute a job different from the stored job from an information processing terminal, and in a case where the job execution request is received and the authentication processing using user information included in the job execution request is successful, control execution of the execution function of executing the stored job without the instruction from the user to prevent the execution function from being executed.
Inventor(s): YASUHISA MATSUMOTO of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, MASAKI KOBAYASHI of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KAORU TSUNODA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, YUKI SUGIYAMA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, DAISUKE MOMIYAMA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/12
Abstract: an image forming system includes one or more server computers, an image forming apparatus, and a client computer. the one or more server computers obtain state information indicating an operating state of the image forming apparatus, execute a first analysis on the state information, and determine countermeasure content to be applied to the image forming apparatus based on at least an analysis result of the first analysis, and determine the image forming apparatus or the client computer as a notification destination of the countermeasure content. the image forming apparatus or the client computer determined as the notification destination receives the countermeasure content; and applies the countermeasure content.
Inventor(s): Izumi Fujiwara of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/12
Abstract: sheet settings for a printing apparatus include first and second sheet settings associated with first and second sheet information on a first sheet determined without user's selection and a second sheet by user's selection, respectively. a first process is executed before printing based on a first error that sheet information set in a received print job is different from sheet information associated with a sheet setting applied to the printing apparatus when the print job is received, and sheet information in the print job is not the first sheet information, a second process is executed before the printing, based on a second error that the sheet information in the print job is different from the sheet information associated with the sheet setting applied to the printing apparatus when the print job is received, but the sheet information in the print job is the first sheet information.
Inventor(s): Naoki Miyata of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Kenta Kita of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/14, G06F16/9038, G06F16/901, G03F7/00, G03F9/00, G06F3/147
Abstract: an information processing apparatus includes a processor and a memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processor, wherein the instructions stored in the memory are executed by the processor to acquire information containing first process data indicating a result of a substrate process in a first recipe and second process data indicating a result of a substrate process in a second recipe different from the first recipe, and control a display on a display apparatus based on the acquired information, and wherein control is performed to display, on the display apparatus, a first screen displaying a first data group in which the first process data is arranged chronologically and a second data group in which the second process data is arranged chronologically, the first screen displaying the first data group in a region and the second data group in another region.
Inventor(s): HIROYOSHI IWAYAMA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F9/451, H04M1/72403, G06F3/0482, G06F3/04817, G06F3/04847
Abstract: an information processing apparatus that can eliminate strangeness given to a user due to mismatch of display languages of applications in changing an application screen during application cooperation. the information processing apparatus allows change of a language setting for each application after its installation. the information processing apparatus includes a request acceptor that accepts an activation request for a second application on a first application that has already installed in the information processing apparatus, a storing unit that stores a language setting of the first application into an information sharing area that is available during operations of both the first and second applications, and a change unit that obtains the language setting of the first application from the information sharing area and changes a language setting of the second application to the obtained language setting of the first application in activating the second application in response to the activation request.
Inventor(s): Yosui NAITO of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F21/10, G06F3/12
Abstract: an image forming apparatus which is capable of, even when an operation restriction or function restriction is enforced in the image forming apparatus, making a restricted operation or function available for license authentication. a display unit and an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus are controlled based on a license state. the display unit displays a first screen on which a first network setting for setting a network for receiving image data used for image formation is carried out. while the image forming apparatus is in a predetermined license state, the use of the image forming unit and the first network setting on the first screen are prohibited. in the predetermined state, the display unit displays a second screen on which a second network setting for setting a network for license authentication, in which the use of the image forming unit is permitted, is carried out.
Inventor(s): HIROYUKI UCHIDA of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F40/14
Abstract: in a case where a third web page corresponding to the second domain is displayed based on an operation in the second web page, control is performed based on a referrer in the third web page such that the inquiry area is not displayed, even without receipt of the first operation or a second operation indicating rejection of use of the cookie in the inquiry area displayed together with the second web page.
Inventor(s): YUKI NAKAJIMA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, JUNNA TAKASE of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, YASUHIRO TOMIOKA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, YASUHIRO SHIMURA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06K7/10, G06K19/077
Abstract: a process management system includes a management unit that manages section data that defines sections in a real space and process data that indicates an expected location, from among the sections, in which a management target is to be positioned at the time of completing a work process, a first wireless device that is attached to the management target and stores first identification information, at least one reading apparatus that is capable of reading identification information from a wireless device, and a determination unit that checks a location of the management target estimated based on a result of reading of the first identification information from the first wireless device against the expected location by variable granularity depending on type information associated with the management target to determine a status of the work process regarding the management target.
20240054327.INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): KOHTARO UMEZAWA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, RYUTA UEDA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, RITSUYA TOMITA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06N3/0464, G06N3/08
Abstract: an information processing system includes a second information processing apparatus configured to communicate with a first information processing apparatus via a network, an inference target data acquisition unit configured to acquire inference target data, and an inference unit configured to perform predetermined inference processing on the inference target data by using a first partial model and a second partial model. the first information processing apparatus includes the first partial model configured to include a first input layer, a first group of intermediate layers including at least one of the intermediate layers in the group of intermediate layers, and a first output layer, and the second information processing apparatus includes the second partial model configured to include a second group of intermediate layers including an intermediate layer different from the intermediate layers included in the first group of intermediate layers in the group of intermediate layers, and the second output layer.
Inventor(s): KOHTARO UMEZAWA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, RYUTA UEDA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, RITSUYA TOMITA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06N20/00, G06N5/04
Abstract: an information processing system includes first and second information processing apparatuses. the first information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit that acquires a first inference model based on a first neural network including an input layer, an intermediate layer group, and an output layer, a first training unit that trains the first inference model using teacher data, and a transmission unit that transmits output information based on forward propagation by the first training unit to the second information processing apparatus. the second information processing apparatus includes a second acquisition unit that acquires a second inference model based on a second neural network including an input layer, an intermediate layer group, and an output layer, wherein the second inference model is a common inference model and is similar to the first inference model, and a second training unit that trains the second inference model based on the output information.
Inventor(s): ATSUSHI FUJITA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, DAIYU UENO of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, MINORU SAKAIDA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, NAOHIKO TSUCHIDA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KEIICHIRO KUBO of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KEISUKE TANAKA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06Q30/018, G06Q50/00
Abstract: a content management system includes a memory device and at least one processor. the memory device stores a set of instructions. the at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to apply an edition process to a content in accordance with an instruction from an administrator of the content, generate a hash value of an edited content immediately after generating the edited content by the edition process, generate an identification number for identifying the edited content, register the hash value of the edited content and the identification number in a blockchain in association with each other, receive a content subjected to an authenticity determination and an identification number for identifying the content concerned, and determine the authenticity of the received content by comparing a hash value generated from the received content with the hash value registered in the blockchain and corresponding to the received identification number.
Inventor(s): TOMOKAZU SATO of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, YUICHI NAKADA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06T7/55, G06V40/16
Abstract: an object is to obtain three-dimensional shape data with high accuracy from three-dimensional shape data representing an approximate shape of an object. three-dimensional shape data of an object captured in a plurality of captured images whose viewpoints are different is obtained. further, surface three-dimensional information on the object is derived based on the plurality of captured images. then, the derived surface three-dimensional information is selected based on a distance from the shape surface of the object represented by the three-dimensional shape data.
Inventor(s): Shu Fujita of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06T19/00, G06T7/70, H04N13/279, G06T17/00, G06T15/04
Abstract: a virtual camera path data processing apparatus includes one or more memories storing instructions and one or more processors executing the instructions to acquire a parameter that represents a position of a virtual viewpoint and a line-of-sight direction from the virtual viewpoint, the parameter corresponding to a frame included in virtual viewpoint video generated based on a plurality of captured images of a subject, the plurality of captured images being obtained by a plurality of image capturing devices, specify a position and an orientation of the subject in the virtual viewpoint video, and output virtual viewpoint data in which the acquired parameter is associated with predetermined information based on the specified position and the specified orientation of the subject.
Inventor(s): YUICHI NAKADA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TOMOKAZU SATO of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06T19/20, G06T7/50, G06T7/70
Abstract: an object is to obtain three-dimensional shape data with high accuracy from three-dimensional shape data representing an approximate shape of an object. three-dimensional shape data of an object existing in an image capturing space is obtained. further, a plurality of distance images each representing a distance to the object and corresponding to a plurality of viewpoints is obtained. then, correction to evaluate the three-dimensional shape data based on the plurality of distance images and based on results of the evaluation, delete a unit element estimated not to represent a shape of the object among unit elements configuring the three-dimensional shape data is performed.
Inventor(s): Yoshiyuki AKIMOTO of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G08G1/00, B60W60/00
Abstract: a control apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire forward information ahead of a first vehicle in a first caravan, acquire road information based on location data and map data, determine, based on the forward information and the road information, whether or not electronic connection between the first caravan and a second caravan following the first caravan is possible, and transmit to a second vehicle in the second caravan first information indicating that the electronic connection is possible in a case where it is determined that the electronic connection is possible.
20240054958.DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): MAKOTO IKEDA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TAKASHI ICHIMIYA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G09G3/3258, G09G3/3233
Abstract: a display apparatus includes light emitting elements that are driven by current and a voltage control unit that controls a driving voltage for driving the light emitting elements based on a temperature of the display apparatus. the voltage control unit performs control such that an amount of change in the driving voltage per unit time does not exceed a predetermined limited range. the predetermined limited range is determined based on a relationship between the change in the driving voltage and a change in a light emission luminance of the light emitting elements.
Inventor(s): KOJI MITO of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G09G3/34, G09G3/36
Abstract: a display device includes a backlight consisting of a plurality of division areas and a display panel. emission luminance for each division area is calculated based on input image data, a correction value for correcting the input image data is calculated based on the emission luminance, the input image data is corrected based on the calculated correction value, the transmittance of the display panel is controlled based on the corrected image data, and light emission of each division area is controlled based on the calculated emission luminance. one frame period of the input image consists of a plurality of subframe periods, and a process of calculating the correction value for correcting the input image data based on the emission luminance is divided into a plurality of partial processes, which are sequentially performed by executing each partial process in each subframe period.
Inventor(s): TAICHI YOSHIOKA of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, NOBUYUKI KAWABATA of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KENJI IKEDA of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, MASATO ANZAI of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, JUN KITAGAWA of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TASUKU SUZUKI of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H01L21/67, H01L21/027, G05B19/29
Abstract: a substrate processing system includes a substrate processing apparatus, an input/output apparatus, a first control apparatus installed with first software, configured to control the substrate processing apparatus based on a first signal output from the input/output apparatus, and configured to acquire a second signal output from the substrate processing apparatus, a second control apparatus installed with second software, and configured to perform same calculation processing as that of the first control apparatus, and not configured to control the substrate processing apparatus, a first distributor configured to distribute the first signal to the second control apparatus, and a second distributor configured to distribute the second signal to the second control apparatus. the second control apparatus outputs a third signal based on the first signal and the second signal.
Inventor(s): Akira Shimada of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H02K33/02, H02N2/00, H02N2/10
Abstract: a vibration wave driving apparatus includes a vibration actuator; and a driven member configured to be driven by the vibration actuator. the vibration actuator includes a vibrator having an electric-mechanical energy conversion element and an elastic member to which the electric-mechanical energy conversion element is fixed; a pressurizing member configured to pressurize the vibrator; a contacting member configured to pressurizing-contact with the vibrator by pressurizing the vibrator by the pressurizing member and move relative to the vibrator; and an outputting member configured to output a driving force to the driven member, the driving force generated by the movement of the contacting member relative to the vibrator. the driven member includes an output transmission member configured to hold the outputting member in a direction of the relative movement with a predetermined spring force.
Inventor(s): Masaharu Naka of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Norihiro Suzuki of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Satoru Deguchi of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H02K41/03, H02K7/06, H02P6/00
Abstract: the disclosed linear motor includes a stator having a plurality of cores and coils that excite the plurality of cores, respectively, and a movable element having a permanent magnet and configured to move using electromagnetic force applied from the stator as driving force, each of the plurality of cores has an excitation unit wound with the coil and an acting unit configured to be magnetically coupled to the excitation unit and cause a magnetic flux applied from the excitation unit to work on the permanent magnet of the movable element, and the linear motor includes an airgap or a heat conduction reduction portion between the excitation unit and the acting unit, and the heat conduction reduction portion reduces heat conduction from the excitation unit to the acting unit more than in a case where the excitation unit and the acting unit are in direct contact with each other.
Inventor(s): HAYATO SHIRAI of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N1/00, G06F3/0482, G06F3/04845
Abstract: an image formation apparatus, a control method, and a storage medium that can suppress the decrease in the convenience are provided. to this end, each setting of an operation mode is activated with a user selecting a custom home screen from a default home screen in accordance with a usage scene.
20240056535.INPUT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Yoshiyuki Nakayama of Toride-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Ryoichi Kawasumi of Toride-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N1/00
Abstract: provided is an input device comprising: a touch panel which receives an operation from a user; an external member having an external surface substantially the same as a surface of the touch panel; and a near field communication unit which is provided near the surrounding of the touch panel and inside of the external member and performs communication with an object to be detected which is brought close to a detection range, wherein a position corresponding to the near field communication unit of the external member projects from the touch panel and is inclined such that the side close to the touch panel is higher than the side distant from the touch panel.
Inventor(s): NOBUYUKI TSUKADA of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N1/00
Abstract: provided is an information processing apparatus including a function selection screen on which a function option from which an arbitrary function can be selected is arranged, the information processing apparatus including a determination unit that determines a function to be executed based on arrangement of the function option related to a specific type function on the function selection screen in a case where an execution operation to execute any function of the information processing apparatus is received while no function option is selected on the function selection screen.
Inventor(s): SHIGEKI HACHIRO of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N1/00
Abstract: a printing system performs control to input sheet information regarding a single set of sheets consisting of a plurality of sheets including a sheet loaded in a sheet feeding unit of a printing apparatus. the printing system performs control to, based on the input sheet information, register the number of sheets corresponding to a single set in management information in which a stock of sheets is managed. the printing system also performs control to, based on consumption of a sheet by the printing apparatus, update information managed in the management information.
Inventor(s): MISAE YUZUTA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TOSHIKI MIYAZAKI of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N1/40
Abstract: an image processing apparatus acquires, with respect to a pixel of interest, a combination of a plurality of pixel values representing respective ink application amounts of a plurality of color inks including at least one basic color ink and a fluorescent ink containing a dispersion element having a fluorescent property, determines whether a total value of the plurality of pixel values is larger than a threshold value, and, in a case where it is determined that the total value is larger than the threshold value, reduces a pixel value for at least one ink of the at least one basic color ink in such a manner that an amount by which to reduce a pixel value for the fluorescent ink becomes smaller than an amount by which to reduce a pixel value corresponding to at least one ink of the at least one basic color ink.
Inventor(s): AKIRA ISHIKAWA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04W12/03, H04L9/40
Abstract: an information processing apparatus that performs wireless communication with an external apparatus includes one or more memories, and one or more processors in communication with the one or more memories, wherein the one or more memories and the one or more processors are configured to receive selection of one environment from a plurality of environments as a use environment of the information processing apparatus, and perform notification of a warning regarding a setting of wireless communication, in a case where the selected environment is one of predetermined environments and the setting with a relatively low security strength among settings for encryption processing for the wireless communication is set, and not to perform the notification of the warning in a case where the predetermined environment is not selected, wherein the predetermined environments include a work-at-home environment, a co-working space environment, a shared office environment, and a wi-fi hot spot environment.
Inventor(s): Pascal LAGRANGE of LA CHAPELLE DES FOUGERETZ (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Pierre VISA of RENNES (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Philippe LE BARS of THORIGNE-FOUILLARD (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04W40/22, H04W40/12, H04W40/24
Abstract: in an iab network, an iab-node detects a deficiency or failure of one bh link. a bh rlf indication message is sent to its child iab-nodes specifying the bap paths that are impacted, a quality of those paths and the deficient radio link by indicating the other iab-node sharing the link. same message are transmitted to this sharing iab-node, but also to the iab-donor in order to adapt the routing configuration of the iab-nodes to the topology. bap packets for the impacted bap paths are rerouted using alternative bap paths. iab-nodes receiving the bh rlf indication message also apply routing strategies for the impacted bap paths, taking into account the indicated quality. a similar message is transmitted when the bh radio link experiences recovery, so that the iab-nodes stop rerouting the bap packets and the iab-donor restore the original routing configuration.
Inventor(s): KYUNGMIN PARK of VIENNA VA (US) for canon kabushiki kaisha, ESMAEL HEJAZI DINAN of MCLEAN VA (US) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04W48/20, H04W36/08, H04W36/00
Abstract: a second base station transmits a message to a first base station. based on the second base station having a backhaul interface to a third base station, the message includes parameters of one or more cells of the third base station. the second base station transmits, to the first base station, a request to add the first base station as a secondary base station. the second base station receives, from the first base station and based on the message, a request of a change of the secondary base station from the first base station to the third base station.
Inventor(s): AKIHISA KINOSHITA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04W48/20
Abstract: a communication device, that functions as a node connected to user equipment in an iab (integrated access and backhaul) network, performs: determining whether a type of a network slice requested by the user equipment is supported by a first other node connected above the communication device; determining, when the communication device determines that the type of the network slice is not supported by the first other node, whether at least one other node that can connect above the communication device, supports the type of the network slice is present; and, when the communication device determines that at least one other node that supports the type of the network slice is present, connecting to a second other node among the at least one other node that supports the type of the network slice.
Inventor(s): KOJI ISHIZUYA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, NORIFUMI KAJIMOTO of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, YOJIRO MATSUDA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, HIROAKI SANO of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TAKAYUKI ITO of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TETSUO TAKAHASHI of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H10K59/80
Abstract: a light emitting apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an organic light emitting element () including a reflection surface (s), a first electrode (), an organic layer () including a light emitting layer (), a second electrode (), and a light extraction structure (). the light emitting layer () contains a first light emitting material. a wavelength included in a peak wavelength range of a pl spectrum of the first light emitting material is assumed as a first wavelength �. an optical distance (lb) between the light emitting layer () and the reflection surface (s) is a value with which rays of light with the first wavelength (�), traveling in a first direction (d) and a second direction (d) that intersect with a normal direction of a principal surface (s) of the substrate (), both are intensified. when the intensified rays of light respectively reach a first inclined portion () and a second inclined portion () of the light extraction structure (), the rays of light respectively are emitted in a third direction (d) and a fourth direction (d) that are directions substantially perpendicular to the principal surface (s) of the substrate ().
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA patent applications on February 15th, 2024
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