CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA patent applications on March 14th, 2024
Patent Applications by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA on March 14th, 2024
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA: 89 patent applications
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA has applied for patents in the areas of H04N19/126 (20), H04N19/18 (20), H04N19/176 (14), G03G15/00 (10), H04N19/186 (10)
With keywords such as: image, unit, apparatus, portion, information, configured, member, device, transform, and direction in patent application abstracts.
See the following report for CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA patent applications on March 14th, 2024: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA patent applications on March 14th, 2024
Patent Applications by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor(s): YUICHI NAITO of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Akira Tsukuda of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KAI SUZUKI of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): A61B6/08, A61B6/00
Abstract: a radiographic apparatus includes a radiation detector configured to perform radiographic imaging, an orientation measurement unit configured to perform measurement of orientation of the radiation detector, a signal output unit configured to output a trigger signal between reception of a stop signal indicating that a visiting cart carrying the radiation detector is at rest or stops and reception of a completion signal indicating completion of positioning of the radiation detector taken out of the visiting cart and a radiation generation apparatus for the radiographic imaging, the visiting cart being configured to carry the radiation generation apparatus and the radiation detector, and a control unit configured to control the orientation measurement unit to reduce a sampling period of the measurement based on reception of the trigger signal.
Inventor(s): Kazuhiro Asai of Kawasaki-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Koji Sasaki of Nagareyama-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Jun Yamamuro of Yokohama-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Shingo Nagata of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): B41J2/14, B41J2/16
Abstract: a liquid ejection head includes a base plate and at least two device chips in which ejection ports for ejecting a liquid are formed and which are disposed on the base plate. at least one first reference mark is provided on the base plate. a second reference mark is provided on each of the device chips. at least one space is formed between adjacent device chips. the second reference marks and the first reference mark present in the space are disposed on an array axis along which the device chips are arrayed.
Inventor(s): YUTAKA MITA of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): B41J2/175, B41J2/14, B41J2/19
Abstract: provided are a liquid ejection apparatus, an imprint apparatus, and an ejection method capable of obtaining a favorable ejection state. to this end, in the course of use of an ejection material, a water head difference (reference height) between an ejection port face and a liquid surface of a hydraulic fluid in a sub tank is changed.
20240083174.INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK TANK_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Yuta Araki of Ichikawa-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Kosuke Umehara of Kawasaki-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Koki Shimada of Kawasaki-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): B41J2/175, B41J2/21
Abstract: an inkjet printing apparatus includes an ink tank that contains an ink to be supplied to a printing head that ejects the ink, the ink being injected from an ink bottle. the inkjet printing apparatus further includes an injection assistance member including a first passage and a second passage. the first passage is defined by a first upper end portion opening toward the outside of the ink tank and a first lower end portion opening toward the inside of the ink tank. the second passage is defined by a second upper end portion opening toward the outside of the ink tank and projecting upward less than the first upper end portion and a second lower end portion opening toward the inside of the ink tank and larger than the first lower end portion in terms of a distance from the bottom surface of the ink tank.
20240083175.PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTHEAD_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): HIROMASA TSUTSUMI of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, HIDEAKI MATSUMURA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TSUYOSHI SAEKI of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, YURI MORI of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KOKI SHIMADA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, SHOTA ASADA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KEN TAKENAGA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, DAIJU TAKEDA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, MINEYOSHI TOMIE of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): B41J2/175
Abstract: a printing apparatus includes a support member configured to support a printhead that performs printing by discharging ink to a print medium, a connecting member including a connecting portion connected to an ink introduction portion of the printhead and through which the ink introduction portion communicates with an ink supply passage via the connecting portion, a rotation member configured to hold the connecting member such that a posture of the connecting member is changeable, and configured to be supported by the support member to be rotatable between a connecting position at which the ink introduction portion and the connecting portion are connected and a connection releasing position at which the ink introduction portion and the connecting portion are not connected, and a biasing portion configured to bias the connecting member to a first posture with respect to the rotation member.
Inventor(s): Kazuhiro Watanabe of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Keita Takatani of Yokohama-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Takeshi Nakata of Kawasaki-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): B41J3/46, B41J2/175, B41J29/02, B41J29/13
Abstract: a printing apparatus includes at least a tank configured to hold a first printing material at a first position and a tank configured to hold a second printing material at a second position different from the first position. a light emitting control unit controls light emitting states of a plurality of light emitters. if an amount of the printing material in the first tank is less than a predetermined amount, and an amount of the printing material in the second tank is greater than a predetermined amount, the light emitting control unit transits a state of a first light emitter from a state indicating that the amount of the printing material is greater than the predetermined amount to a state indicating that the amount of the printing material is less than the predetermined amount, and maintains a state of a second light emitter.
Inventor(s): YUSUKE NARATANI of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, ATSUSHI KOHNOTOH of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KEN TAKENAGA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TAKASHI ABE of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KOUSUKE TANAKA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): B41J25/00
Abstract: a recording apparatus includes: a carriage on which a liquid ejection head that ejects a liquid is mounted, the carriage being reciprocally movable in a scanning direction; a guide member that extends in the scanning direction and that guides movement of the carriage in the scanning direction; and a sliding member that is provided on the carriage and has a sliding surface that slides with a guide surface of the guide member via a lubricant, in a case where the carriage moves in the scanning direction. the carriage has a projecting portion that projects farther toward one side in the scanning direction than the sliding member. a gap formed between the projecting portion and the guide surface becomes smaller toward the sliding member in the scanning direction.
Inventor(s): TATSURO UCHIDA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TAKAHIRO YAJIMA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, SHINICHIRO WATANABE of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): C23C14/04, H05B33/10, H10K71/16
Abstract: a vapor deposition mask made of a semiconductor substrate, comprising a plurality of openings to pass vapor deposition particles, wherein an aperture portion of which opening width is smallest is disposed between an edge of the opening on a vapor deposition source side and an edge of the opening on a substrate side, the opening width on the substrate side is larger than that of the aperture portion, and at least a part of an inner wall of each of the plurality of openings has a uneven shape.
Inventor(s): Tomohiro SUGIMOTO of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G01M11/02
Abstract: an acquiring apparatus includes a first light source, a measurement optical system, an image sensor, an adjusting unit, an interferometer, and a calculating unit configured to calculate a distance between adjacent target surfaces among the plurality of target surfaces based on an interference signal. the index surface, a surface containing the first point, a surface containing the second point, and the light receiving surface have a conjugate relationship with each other with respect to the measurement optical system.
Inventor(s): TAKAHIRO MASUMURA of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, NORISHIGE KAKEGAWA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G01N21/64
Abstract: a measuring method includes a first sequence for acquiring a first result about the anisotropy by performing a dispensing step and a measuring step and for measuring concentration of the measurement object from the first result based on a relationship between the anisotropy and a dispensing amount of the fluorescent reagent dispensed in the dispensing step, and a second sequence for acquiring a second result about the anisotropy by performing the dispensing step and the measuring step one or more times after the first sequence and for measuring the concentration of the measurement object from the second result based on the relationship between the anisotropy measured in the measuring step and the dispensing amount of the fluorescent reagent dispensed in the dispensing step.
Inventor(s): TAKESHI UCHIDA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TAKAKO SUGA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G01S7/484, G01S7/481, G01S17/931, H01S5/02325, H01S5/183
Abstract: the light emitting device includes a semiconductor light emitting element including a first reflector, a resonator spacer including an active layer, and a second reflector stacked in this order over a semiconductor substrate. the semiconductor light emitting element includes a saturable absorption layer provided between the semiconductor substrate and the second reflector. the semiconductor light emitting element is configured to emit light having a profile that has a maximum peak value and converges to a stable value of a predetermined light intensity after the maximum peak value.
20240085659.LENS BARREL_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): NOBUYUKI NAGAOKA of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G02B7/04
Abstract: to provide a lens barrel suitable for miniaturization, in a lens barrel having a first lens barrel that holds a first lens and an optical unit, the first lens barrel and the optical unit are disposed adjacent to each other, an annular portion of the first lens barrel has first protruding portions in two or more phases, the first protruding portion regulates a position of the first lens in an optical axis direction, a second protruding portion of the optical unit is disposed in a phase other than the phase having the first protruding portion, and a part of the first protruding portion and a part of the second protruding portion are disposed in the same plane perpendicular to the optical axis.
Inventor(s): MINORU UCHIYAMA of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G02B7/10
Abstract: a lens apparatus includes an optical system including a focus lens unit and a magnification-varying lens unit, and a processor configured to control driving of the focus lens unit. the processor is configured to acquire a detected position of the magnification-varying lens unit from a zoom position detector, and determine a target position of the focus lens unit according to a predicted position of the magnification-varying lens unit based on locus information indicating a relationship between a position of the magnification-varying lens unit and a position of the focus lens unit that is in focus at the position of the magnification-varying lens unit, and the detected position of the magnification-varying lens unit.
20240085692.LIGHT SCANNING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): MASAYASU TERAMURA of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, SOYA SAIJO of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G02B26/12
Abstract: the apparatus invention includes a deflecting unit configured to deflect first and second light fluxes to scan first and second surfaces in a main scanning direction, and first and second optical systems configured to guide the first and second light fluxes deflected by the deflecting unit to the first and second surfaces. the first optical system includes a first optical element, and a second optical element arranged between the first optical element and the first surface on an optical path of the first optical system. the second optical system includes a third optical element.
Inventor(s): Hidemasa Oshige of Yokohama-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G02F1/1335, G02F1/1343, G02F1/1362
Abstract: a semiconductor apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, in a plan view with respect to the primary face of a semiconductor device, includes at least a part of an outer edge of a color filter layer being located between an effective pixel region and a joining member, and the distance from the effective pixel region to at least a part of the outer edge is greater than the distance from the color filter layer to a light transmission plate in the effective pixel region.
20240085764.ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND ACCESSORY_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Hiromichi Sakamoto of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Kei Tohyama of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Takayuki Shu of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Hiromi Hayasaki of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Kouji Ikeda of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Yuhei Hattori of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Kenji Ishii of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Yoshinobu Okano of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03B17/14, G03B15/05, G03B17/56
Abstract: an electronic apparatus includes a plurality of contacts electrically connectable to an accessory and arranged in a first direction orthogonal to a direction in which the accessory is attached. the contacts include an attachment detection contact to detect an attachment of the accessory to the electronic apparatus, and a communication request contact for a communication request from the accessory to the electronic apparatus. the attachment detection and communication request contacts are disposed between a contact closest one end and a contact closest to another end in the first direction. the attachment detection contact is disposed between the communication request contact and the contact closest to the one end. in the first direction, a distance between the attachment detection contact and the communication request contact is shorter than that between the communication request contact and the contact closest to the other end.
Inventor(s): YUICHI OZAWA of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03F7/00
Abstract: the stage apparatus according to the present invention includes a first stage configured to be movable in a first direction, a first driving unit configured to generate a thrust force to move the first stage in the first direction, and a reaction force reducing unit configured to generate a thrust force to reduce a reaction force generated by the generation of the thrust force of the first driving unit. the reaction force reducing unit can generate the thrust forces with different magnitudes from each other at a plurality of positions in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and can generate the thrust forces with different magnitudes from each other at a plurality of positions in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction.
Inventor(s): TAKAHIRO YAMAMOTO of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, MITSURU INOSE of Ibaraki (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03F7/00
Abstract: in order to provide a determining apparatus capable of determining whether there is a foreign substance on a substrate stage with suppressing a decrease in productivity of an apparatus, the determining apparatus according to the present invention is configured to determine a state of a surface of each of a first substrate stage and a second substrate stage based on a first detection result of a substrate surface of a substrate mounted on the first substrate stage and a second detection result of the substrate surface of the substrate mounted on the second substrate stage.
Inventor(s): TORU ISHII of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KAZUAKI NAGAOKA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/08, G03G15/02, G03G15/16
Abstract: a developing roller comprising an electroconductive substrate and an electroconductive elastic layer constituted by a single layer on an outer periphery of the substrate. the elastic layer contains a diene-based rubber, has a thickness of 0.30 mm or more, and the elastic layer has a crown shape in which an outer diameter of a center portion in a longitudinal direction along an axis of the substrate is larger than an outer diameter of each of both end portions in the longitudinal direction. elastic moduli e11, e12 and e13 in a first region of the elastic layer in cross-sections at positions p1, p2 and p3 of the elastic layer are each 500 mpa or more.
20240085822.IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Tetsushi Uneme of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Shinichi Nishida of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Tsuyoshi Ogawa of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Masahiro Suetsugu of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Kengo Sakai of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/08
Abstract: an image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, an image bearing member, and a process unit attached to the apparatus body, the process unit including a frame including a storage portion configured to store developer, a developer bearing member configured to supply developer to the image bearing member to develop an electrostatic latent image; and a circuit board attached to the frame, wherein the circuit board includes a light emitting portion configured to emit light, and a light receiving portion configured to receive the light emitted from the light emitting portion and having passed through an interior of the storage portion.
Inventor(s): Koji Wada of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Tsuyoshi Ogawa of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Hiroshi Takarada of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Masaaki Sato of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/08, G03G15/00, G03G21/18
Abstract: a cartridge is configured to be attachable to a main body of an image forming apparatus and configured to receive toner supplied from a supply container. the cartridge includes a supply port configured to receive the toner supplied from the supply container, a shutter member configured to cover the supply port, and a locking member. the locking member is moved from a lock position to an unlock position to allow movement of the shutter member by using electric power supplied from the main body.
20240085824.IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): CHIKARA IMAIZUMI of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, SATOSHI MURASAKI of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KIYOSHI FURUTA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, SHINYA NODA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KUNIHIRO NIWA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, YOJI MISAO of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TOMOOKU KOYAMA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TOMOKI KATAFUCHI of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TOMONARI INOUE of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KOICHI SEKIMIZU of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/08, G03G15/00, G03G15/01, G03G15/20, G03G21/00, G03G21/18
Abstract: an image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a drawer unit, and a transfer device a including a belt. when image formation on a recording material is performed, the drawer unit is at a first apparatus main body inner position and the transfer device is at a second apparatus main body inner position. in this drawer unit state, (a) a part of the transfer device is disposed downstream of the drawer unit in a moving direction in which the drawer unit moves from the first inner position to a first apparatus main body outer position, and (b) in a vertical direction, an area where the part of the transfer device is positioned overlaps, at least in part, with an area where the drawer unit is positioned. the transfer device includes a cleaning member to clean the belt and is accommodated in the part of the transfer device.
20240085825.IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): CHIKARA IMAIZUMI of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, SATOSHI MURASAKI of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KIYOSHI FURUTA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, SHINYA NODA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KUNIHIRO NIWA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, YOJI MISAO of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TOMOOKU KOYAMA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TOMOKI KATAFUCHI of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TOMONARI INOUE of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KOICHI SEKIMIZU of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/08, G03G15/00, G03G15/01, G03G15/20
Abstract: an image forming apparatus to form an image on a recording material includes an apparatus main body having a first end provided with an opening and having a second end, a fixing device to heat the recording material, an opening and closing member, a drawer unit having a first photosensitive drum, and a transfer device. when being moved from a first inner position inside the apparatus main body to a first outer position outside the apparatus main body through the main body opening, the drawer unit is to be moved in a moving direction intersecting with a rotation axis of the first photosensitive drum, and is to be moved away from the second end. when being moved from a second inner position inside the apparatus main body to a second outer position outside the apparatus main body, the transfer device is moved away from the second end.
20240085827.IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Hiroko KATAGIRI of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Shinji Katagiri of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Koji An of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/16, G03G15/00
Abstract: in an image forming apparatus including a transfer member that primarily transfers a developer image from an image bearing member onto an intermediate transfer belt by applying an electric current to an intermediate transfer belt in a circumferential direction, a control unit which executes a first mode in which to rotate the intermediate transfer belt and a second mode in which to rotate the intermediate transfer belt at a rotation speed higher than that in the first mode. the control unit performs control such that an absolute value of a second voltage to be applied to the transfer member in a case of performing primary transfer in the second mode is less than an absolute value of a first voltage to be applied to the transfer member in a case of performing the primary transfer in the first mode.
Inventor(s): ATSUSHI HORI of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, AKIHIRO TAYA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, MEGUMI UCHINO of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KOJI SATO of Ibaraki (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/16
Abstract: an intermediate transfer member including a base layer, wherein the base layer contains a thermoplastic resin and an electroconductive filler dispersed in the thermoplastic resin, and wherein the base layer has a volume resistivity of 1�10to 1�10��cm, and the base layer has an electroconductive path index of 0.20 or less.
Inventor(s): Yasuhiro Shimura of Yokohama-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Koji Nihonyanagi of Susono-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Ryota Ogura of Numazu-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/20, G03G15/00, H05B3/03
Abstract: the present invention relates to an image heating apparatus that includes a heater including a plurality of independently controllable heating blocks in a longitudinal direction thereof, each including a first conductor, a second conductor, and a heating element. at least one of electrodes corresponding to the respective heating blocks is disposed in an area where the heating element is located in the longitudinal direction on a second surface of the heater that is opposite to a first surface that comes into contact with an endless belt. an electrical contact is arranged so as to face the second surface of the heater. an overheating occurring in a no-media passage portion when an image formed on a recording material having a small size is heated is suppressed or reduced.
20240085832.FIXING DEVICE_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Hideki Ohta of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Terutaka Endo of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Seiji Obata of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Jiro Moriya of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Takayuki Mizuta of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/20
Abstract: the present invention provides a fixing device including a flexible cylindrical rotary member and an inner-surface opposing portion that opposes an inner surface of the rotary member at an end portion of the rotary member in a generatrix direction. the inner-surface opposing portion moves upstream in a recording material conveying direction in accordance with lateral shift of the rotary member in the generatrix direction. this restricts the lateral shift of the rotary member.
20240085834.IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): SHUICHI TAMURA of Ibaraki (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, NAOYUKI YAMAMOTO of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TOHRU NAKAEGAWA of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KENICHIRO KITAJIMA of Ibaraki (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KOTA MORI of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, YOSHIRO TSUKADA of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/20, G03G15/00
Abstract: an image forming system includes an image forming apparatus including an image forming unit and a fixing unit; a folding processing portion; a pressure-bonding portion; and an input portion capable of selecting a pressure-bonding mode in which a pressure-bonding print prepared by subjecting the recording material to pressure-bonding processing by the folding processing portion and the pressure-bonding portion and capable of selecting a layout of the toner image formed on the recording material. when the pressure-bonding mode is selected, the layout depending on the pressure-bonding mode is selected.
Inventor(s): SHINYA SUZUKI of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/00, G03G15/01, G03G15/32
Abstract: in the image forming method, a halftone image is generated by performing halftone processing for an input image, a scanned image of a printed material on which on which the halftone image is printed is obtained, and a failure component of an image forming apparatus is identified based on a difference between the scanned image and the input image. in the generation, the halftone image is generated by representing a dot pattern of a halftone portion in a case where the input image is a test image for the failure diagnosis by a dot pattern whose frequency is relatively higher than that of a dot pattern that is applied to the halftone portion in a case where the input image is an image other than the test image.
20240085843.IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): NAOYUKI YAMAMOTO of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KENICHIRO KITAJIMA of Ibaraki (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, YOSHIRO TSUKADA of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TOHRU NAKAEGAWA of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KOTA MORI of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, SHUICHI TAMURA of Ibaraki (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G15/00, G03G15/20
Abstract: an image forming system includes an image forming apparatus including a fixing unit, a folding processing portion, and a pressure-bonding portion. a first recording material having a first basis weight is fixed at a first temperature by the fixing unit and then is pressure-bonded by the pressure-bonding portion after a lapse of a first period. a second recording material having a second basis weight is fixed at a second temperature by the fixing unit and then is pressure-bonded by the pressure-bonding portion after a lapse of a second period. the second basis weight is larger than the first basis weight. the second temperature is higher than the first temperature. the second period is longer than the first period.
Inventor(s): Issei Imamura of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Ryohei Tsutsumi of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Yuichiro Hirata of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Takuya Oka of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G21/00, G03G21/16, G03G21/18
Abstract: a restricting member includes a blade portion and a supporting portion. a contact portion is provided at the blade portion, and, in a cross section orthogonal to a longitudinal direction, the contact portion includes a first portion extending in a first direction and a second portion extending toward a free end from an end of the first portion and extending in a second direction. when a region demarcated by connecting an intersection point, the end of the first portion, and an end of the second portion by a straight line is defined as a first region, the intersection point being where an imaginary line intersects an extension line of the first portion in the first direction, an area of the first region is smaller on a longitudinal end portion than on a longitudinal central portion of the blade portion.
20240085846.IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Takayuki Kanazawa of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Nobuo Oshima of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Takayoshi Kihara of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Kuniaki Tamagaki of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Shuhei Tokiwa of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Taichi Sato of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G21/00, G03G15/02, G03G15/16, G03G21/16
Abstract: an image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a developing member, a transfer member, and a brush contacting a surface of the image bearing member in a contact portion downstream of a transfer portion and upstream of a developing portion with respect to a rotational direction of the image bearing member. the toner which is not transferred onto a toner image receiving member is collected by the developing member. in a charging series, the toner is positioned on the same side as a normal charge polarity of the toner relative to the brush. in the contact portion, a maximum value of a contact pressure of 0.7 gf/mmor more and 3.5 gf/mmor less, a maximum contact area ratio is 18% or more and 74% or less, and a clark-evans index of the brush is 1 or more.
20240085849.IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): CHIKARA IMAIZUMI of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, SATOSHI MURASAKI of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KIYOSHI FURUTA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, SHINYA NODA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KUNIHIRO NIWA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, YOJI MISAO of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TOMOOKU KOYAMA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TOMOKI KATAFUCHI of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, TOMONARI INOUE of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, KOICHI SEKIMIZU of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G21/16
Abstract: an image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a drawer unit, and a transfer device including a belt. the drawer unit includes a first cartridge, a support member to which the first cartridge is detachably attached, and a first photosensitive drum disposed on the support member or the first cartridge. the drawer unit is moved to a first inner position inside the apparatus main body and to a first outer position outside the apparatus main body. the transfer device is moved to a second inner position inside the apparatus main body and to a second outer position outside the apparatus main body. the belt contacts the first photosensitive drum with the transfer device at the second inner position. the transfer device is moved from the second inner to the second outer position when the drawer unit is moved from the first inner to the first outer position.
20240085850.OPERATION UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): SHINGO HATTORI of Gunma (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G21/16, G03G15/00
Abstract: an operation unit for image forming apparatus is disclosed. the operation unit includes: a bearing portion configured to rotatably support a shaft portion; a restricting portion provided at a position different from that of the bearing portion in an axial direction of the shaft portion, a restricting portion being configured such that when a supporting portion is rotated in a first direction from a first angle toward a second angle, the restricting portion restricts a rotation of the supporting portion in the first direction by abutting a mounting portion at a position where the operation unit forms the second angle; and an abutting portion provided on an opposite side of the restricting portion via the bearing portion in the axial direction, the abutting portion being configured to abut on the shaft portion.
20240085851.IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Daisuke Abe of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Koji Wada of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G03G21/18, G03G21/16
Abstract: an image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including a main contact, and a main guide, and a cartridge including a memory contact, a moving unit moving into and out of the apparatus body in a first direction and including a frame to which the cartridge is attached, first and second protrusions protruding in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction from the end surface of the frame, an intermediate contact being in electrical contact with the memory contact, an unit contact being in electrical contact with the main contact, and a line conductor, the first protrusion being supported by the main guide of the apparatus body, the second protrusion being located above the first protrusion. at least part of the line conductor connecting the intermediate contact and the unit contact is located in a recess formed by the first protrusion, the second protrusion, and the end surface.
Inventor(s): YASUYUKI SUZUKI of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/01, H04N23/695
Abstract: in the case where a confirmation operation is performed by a user, a cpu performs control to store information related to the confirmation operation in association with a still image or a moving image displayed on a display element
Inventor(s): TAKAYUKI KANEKO of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/12, G06F3/0482
Abstract: an image forming apparatus manages whether or not job information is displayed for each stored print job, displays notification information for notifying a user that the print job is stored if there is a print job of which the job information has not been displayed, and does not display the notification information if there is no print job of which the job information has not been displayed.
Inventor(s): Tetsuya Shiohara of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/12
Abstract: a method of controlling an information processing apparatus configured to execute an extension application associated with printing data generation software operatable in the information processing apparatus to extend a function includes: adding information on an extended function to printing function information used in the printing data generation software; switching in accordance with a setting value stored in common information shared with the extension application whether to perform skip processing in which conversion processing of intermediate data performed by the printing data generation software is skipped; and editing the intermediate data in which the conversion processing is skipped in the printing data generation software in the switching and converting the edited intermediate data into printing data.
Inventor(s): HIROAKI HANAI of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/12
Abstract: an application to be stored in a nonvolatile storage medium according to an embodiment of the present invention is a print setting application to be installed in an information processing apparatus, the application when executed on the information processing apparatus causes the information processing apparatus to: acquire a printing method of a printer; acquire, in a case where the acquired printing method is a first method, printer information regarding a predetermined item; and display an object based on the acquired printer information on a display, wherein, in a case where the acquired printing method is a second method, the information processing apparatus does not acquire the printer information regarding the predetermined item.
Inventor(s): Tadahiro Nakamura of Yokohama-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/12, H04W4/80
Abstract: in a case where both an ipv4 address and an ipv6 address are available in a printing apparatus, a bluetooth low energy advertising packet including the available ipv4 address but not the available ipv6 address is generated and periodically transmitted.
Inventor(s): KENTARO TAKAHASHI of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/12
Abstract: an information processing apparatus includes: a specifying unit configured to specify, of messages received by a message exchange service between users, a message to which a job ticket for executing a job is attached; an acquisition unit configured to acquire information of the job ticket attached to the message specified by the specifying unit; and a display control unit configured to display, in the message exchange service, a list of information of the job ticket acquired by the acquisition unit.
Inventor(s): Go Inoue of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/12
Abstract: a server providing a cloud print service includes at least one processor that executes a set of instructions, when executed, causing the server to perform operations including acquiring attribute information indicating printing capabilities of a printing apparatus when the printing apparatus is registered as an output destination printer, registering output destination printer information by associating the acquired attribute information with information indicating an output destination, and transmitting, in a case where a request for acquiring capability information about the registered output destination printer is received, the attribute information about the registered output destination printer to a client terminal as a response to the request, wherein in the registering, even in a case where the acquired attribute information about the printing apparatus includes an attribute that is not supported by the cloud print service, the attribute information is registered as the output destination printer information without discarding the attribute information.
20240086132.IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): KEIGO TSUCHIYA of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F3/12, H04W72/044, H04W84/18
Abstract: in a case where an image forming apparatus operates as a master station that determines a communication channel to be used in wireless communication, the image forming apparatus transmits a second trigger frame, which is compliant with the institute of electrical and electronics engineers (ieee) 802.11 standard and includes information indicating that carrier sense is to be executed, to a slave station apparatus connected to the master station.
Inventor(s): Toru Suneya of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F16/438, G06T13/80
Abstract: there is provided with an information processing apparatus. a generation unit generates a playlist including a network address to be referenced in order to acquire first media data and second media data to be reproduced subsequently to the first media data and transition effect information indicating a first transition effect to be applied to a display or audio when switching reproduction of the first media data and the second media data. a transmission unit transmits the playlist to the reception apparatus.
Inventor(s): HIROAKI KOIKE of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F16/954, G06F16/955, G06F16/957
Abstract: a web browsing system includes a server configured to render a webpage, and a communication terminal configured to display the webpage based on a result of the rendering, the communication terminal including: a unit configured to transmit, to the server, address information of the webpage and specification information for specifying a display environment of the communication terminal, and a unit configured to receive, from the server, a render image of the webpage rendered based on a rendering condition specified based on the specification information, and the server including: a unit configured to receive the address information and the specification information from the communication terminal, and a unit configured to access the webpage based on the address information, generate the render image from the webpage based on the rendering condition specified based on the specification information, and transmit the render image to the communication terminal.
Inventor(s): TOMOYA UEHARA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06K7/10, G06K19/07
Abstract: there is provided a video management system for managing a video of a real space captured by a capturing apparatus, including: a first reading unit configured to emit an electromagnetic wave to a tag reading range and read information that is sent back from a radio frequency identification (rfid) tag utilizing energy of the electromagnetic wave; a first rfid tag that stores first tag identification information; and a data management unit configured to cause a database to store a reading result by the first reading unit in association with the video so that a portion in the video captured by the capturing apparatus corresponding to a time at which the first tag identification information has been read from the first rfid tag by the first reading unit is able to be extracted.
Inventor(s): Tsukasa Doi of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Hirokazu Tanaka of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Satoshi Seki of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Junichi Nakagawa of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Mayuko Yamagata of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06K15/10, B41J2/21
Abstract: an object is to print a high quality image with resistance to print misalignment. to this end, the image processing apparatus generates quantized data for printing a first dot pattern and a second dot pattern in an overlapping manner. the first dot pattern and the second dot pattern are lattice patterns varying in a combination of two basis vectors. in a combined dot pattern obtained by combining the first and second dot patterns, there is a neighboring dot in which a dot in the first dot pattern and a dot in the second dot pattern are arranged at an interval smaller than a lattice spacing. the neighboring dot includes multiple neighboring dots varying in an approach direction.
Inventor(s): FUMIAKI HIROSE of Saitama (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06K15/02, H04N1/00
Abstract: to make it possible to easily set an inspection level in accordance with the type of contents included in a printed material. first, based on pdl included in a print job, a raster image is generated and a contents attribute different from an object attribute predefined by the pdl is identified by analyzing the raster image. then, inspection level information in accordance with the identified contents attribute is assigned to the generated raster image and the raster image is provided to an inspection apparatus.
Inventor(s): NORIHITO HIASA of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, YOSHINORI KIMURA of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, YUICHI KUSUMI of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06T3/40, G06T5/00, G06T5/50, G06T7/00, H04N25/615
Abstract: an image processing method includes obtaining a captured image by image capturing using an optical apparatus, and obtaining resolution performance information about a resolution performance of the optical apparatus, and generating an output image by reducing a sampling pitch of the captured image based on the captured image and the resolution performance information, wherein the information indicating the resolution performance is a map, and each pixel of the map indicates the resolution performance of a corresponding pixel of the captured image.
Inventor(s): Tsuyoshi OYA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06T5/00, B60Q9/00, B60T7/12, G06V10/70, G06V20/58
Abstract: an image processing apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to generate, using a first image obtained by imaging a three-dimensional space including an object through an optical system of a first projection method, a second image obtained by a second projection method different from the first projection method, and perform object detection using the second image. a distortion ratio on the second image satisfies a predetermined condition.
Inventor(s): NAOKO OGATA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06T19/00, G06F3/01, G06F3/0346
Abstract: an information processing apparatus generates an image to be displayed on a display device that is mountable to a head of a user, decides an operation mode of an application, and accepts an input operation from a mobile terminal that the user is capable of holding and operating, and perform an application operation on the basis of the operation mode and the input operation. the information processing apparatus decides at least one of a first operation mode, in which the application operation is performed by the user operating the mobile terminal, and a second operation mode, in which a virtual user interface (ui) relating to an operation is displayed on the display device and the application operation is performed by the user operating the virtual ui, as the operation mode.
Inventor(s): SHUNTA TATE of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, YASUHIRO OKUNO of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, HIDEKI SORAKADO of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06V40/16, G06T7/00, G06T7/62, G06V10/44, G06V10/60
Abstract: an image processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a first feature amount from a first image based on a first trained model configured to extract a feature from an image, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a second feature amount from a second image based on a second trained model determined based on a state of the second image and configured to extract a feature from an image, and a verification unit configured to determine, based on the first feature amount and the second feature amount, whether an object in the first image and an object in the second image are the same. the second trained model is a model having learned the second feature amount in a same feature space as that for the first trained model.
Inventor(s): Tomoyori Iwao of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G09B19/00, G06T7/246, G06T7/73, G06T13/40, G09B5/02, G09G5/377
Abstract: an information processing apparatus acquires first physical makeup information representing a physical makeup of a first object. the first physical makeup information is information generated based on images obtained by imaging the first object with a plurality of imaging apparatuses in a plurality of directions. the information processing apparatus acquires second physical makeup information representing a physical makeup of a second object and motion information representing motion of a plurality of parts of the second object. the information processing apparatus generates motion information associated with the first physical makeup information based on the second physical makeup information and the motion information relating to the second object.
20240088174.SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE HAVING PHOTODIODE_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Tomoya Sasago of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Shintaro Maekawa of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Yu Maehashi of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Yasuharu Ota of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H01L27/146, H04N25/77
Abstract: a signal processing device includes a plurality of pixel signal processing units and a signal line group. the plurality of pixel signal processing units is arranged in a first direction and a second direction, each of the plurality of signal processing units acquiring a digital signal having a plurality of bits based on an output from a corresponding avalanche photodiode. the signal line group is arranged corresponding to the plurality of pixel signal processing units arranged in the first direction and including a signal line to which a plurality of signals corresponding to a plurality of bits of different digits of the digital signal held in each of the plurality of pixel signal processing units arranged in the first direction are commonly output.
Inventor(s): DAIKI SHIRAHIGE of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, YU MAEHASHI of Hokkaido (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H01L27/146
Abstract: a photoelectric conversion element includes in a semiconductor layer a first semiconductor region arranged, a second semiconductor region arranged on a second face side closer than the first semiconductor region and forming a p-n junction with the first semiconductor region to form an avalanche photodiode, a light guide structure including a first portion surrounding a first region and a second portion surrounding a second region inside the first region in a plan view, and an optical structure layer disposed on the second face side. the second portion is disposed over a depth of at least 0.8 �m from the second face, the first and second semiconductor regions are arranged closer to the first face than the second portion, and the second portion overlaps at least a portion of an avalanche multiplication region between the first and second semiconductor region in the plan view.
Inventor(s): TAKUYA HARA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H01L27/146
Abstract: a photoelectric conversion apparatus is provided. the apparatus includes a semiconductor layer that includes a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element are arranged. a plurality of wiring layers are arranged on a side of a main surface on the opposite side to a light receiving surface of the semiconductor layer, and a plurality of wiring patterns are arranged in a wiring layer closest to the main surface among the plurality of wiring layers. a pattern density of the wiring patterns arranged in a peripheral region between the pixel region and an outer edge of the semiconductor layer among the plurality of wiring patterns is 35% or more in an arbitrary 100 �mregion of the peripheral region.
Inventor(s): Nobuyuki Endo of Fujisawa-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Tetsuya Itano of Sagamihara-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Kazuo Yamazaki of Yokohama-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Kyouhei Watanabe of Yokohama-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Junji Iwata of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H01L27/146, H01L31/04
Abstract: a member for a solid-state image pickup device having a bonding plane with no gaps and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. the manufacturing method includes the steps of providing a first substrate provided with a photoelectric converter on its primary face and a first wiring structure, providing a second substrate provided with a part of a peripheral circuit on its primary face and a second wiring structure, and performing bonding so that the first substrate, the first wiring structure, the second wiring structure, and the second substrate are disposed in this order. in addition, at least one of an upper face of the first wiring structure and an upper face of the second wiring structure has a concave portion, and a conductive material forms a bottom face of the concave portion.
Inventor(s): MITSUNORI OSHIMA of Shizuoka (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H02M1/08, G03G15/00, H02M1/088, H02M5/293
Abstract: a power source device includes first fet of which a source is connected to live phase, second fet of which a source is connected to a drain of the first fet, third fet of which a source is connected to neutral phase, fourth fet of which a source is connected to a drain of the third fet, first capacitor connected between the source and the drain of the first fet, second capacitor serially connected between the drain of the second fet and the drain of the fourth fet, third capacitor connected between the source and the drain of the third fet, fourth capacitor connected between the live and neutral phases, a detector to detect potentials of the live and neutral phases, a controller controls the fets based on a detecting result by the detector, and an inductive load connected between the drains of the first and third fets.
Inventor(s): TOMOYUKI TAKADA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04L5/00, H04W72/0453
Abstract: a communication system including a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus, wherein the first communication apparatus receive from the second communication apparatus, information indicating a bandwidth to be used by the second communication apparatus to communicate with the first communication apparatus, transmitting, in transmitting a downlink multi-user physical layer protocol data unit (mu ppdu) to a plurality of communication apparatuses including the second communication apparatus with a predetermined bandwidth in a case where the bandwidth to be used by the second communication apparatus indicated by the received information is smaller than the predetermined bandwidth, an mu ppdu in which a subcarrier at the end of a frequency domain is not modulated with demodulation target data but a subcarrier different from the subcarrier at the end is modulated with demodulation target data, from among subcarriers that are to store data to be transmitted to the second communication apparatus.
Inventor(s): YASUHIRO WATANABE of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04L41/085, H04L67/12
Abstract: in a system, a plurality of controlled devices, including a first controlled device and a second controlled device, and a main control device configured to control the plurality of controlled devices are connected via a network. the main control device includes a communicator configured to transmit and receive a data frame including a plurality of data areas via the network in a predetermined cycle, and a setter configured to set a structure of the data frame. the setter has a function of setting the same data area in the data frame as a data area in which the first controlled device should write data and a data area from which the second controlled device should read data.
Inventor(s): MASAHIKO KONO of KANAGAWA (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): G06F9/455, G06F3/04883, G06F3/04886, G06T13/80
Abstract: an information processing apparatus that communicates with a virtual machine functioning as a cloud browser, the information processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the virtual machine, analysis information obtained by analyzing html data by the virtual machine; a determination unit configured to determine a user operation on a screen of the information processing apparatus using the analysis information; and a drawing unit configured to, when determined that the user operation is a predetermined user operation, execute a drawing process corresponding to an event corresponding to the user operation without acquiring information regarding the drawing process corresponding to the user operation from the virtual machine.
Inventor(s): Akira Okamoto of Kawasaki-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Takuho Taguchi of Kawasaki-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Ryohei Saito of Kawasaki-shi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N1/00, G06F3/12, G06F3/16
Abstract: in the case where a voice control device can communicate with a printing apparatus and a display apparatus, a user is provided with visual presentations of notifications on the display apparatus where print processing instructions are provided to the printing apparatus based on user instructions issued to the voice control device by voice.
Inventor(s): MAYUMI SHIBAO of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N1/00
Abstract: an image processing apparatus capable of communicating with an information processing apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive job information including a setting for displaying a preview from the information processing apparatus; and a control unit configured to transmit a preview image data based on the job information to the information processing apparatus in a case of receiving the job information.
20240089383.IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Katsuya Nakama of Chiba (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N1/00
Abstract: an image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on each of media; a plurality of sheet feeding cassettes each configured to store the media; a media sensor which is provided on a conveyance path through which the media are fed from any of the plurality of sheet feeding cassettes to the image forming unit, and is configured to detect a type of the conveyed media; a memory configured to store, for each sheet feeding cassette, the type of media stored in each of the plurality of sheet feeding cassettes; and a controller configured to output, to a display, a selection screen for selecting a sheet feeding cassette in which media to be used in calibration of adjusting a density of the image to be formed by the image forming unit are stored.
Inventor(s): TETSUHIDE TAKASAKI of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N1/60, G06F3/12
Abstract: an information processing apparatus obtains information of a color profile managed by a printer driver and registers, in an operating system (os), the obtained information of the color profile. the information processing apparatus changes a method of registration in the os based on the obtained information of the color profile.
Inventor(s): Nobutaka MIZUNO of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N13/398, H04N13/156, H04N13/344
Abstract: an electronic apparatus includes a processor, and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic apparatus to acquire a first image which is captured via a first optical system, and a second image which is captured via a second optical system, and which corresponds to the first image, and generate, by using the first image and the second image, a third image, and a fourth image which has parallax with respect to the third image and of which partial region included in the third image is magnified.
Inventor(s): Masato Shima of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N19/126, H04N19/18, H04N19/186
Abstract: an image coding device that suppresses degradation of subjective image quality while improving the coding efficiency of residual coefficients of two chroma components. the image coding device that codes image data constituted by one luma component and two chroma components, comprises quantizing unit that performs an orthogonal transform on each of components of a block obtained by dividing an image to be coded, and quantizes transform coefficients of each of the components obtained from the orthogonal transform; and coding unit that codes residual coefficients obtained by the quantizing unit, wherein when coding the transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform of the two chroma components in an integrated manner, the coding unit quantizes transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform obtained from the integration using a predetermined quantization matrix, and codes residual coefficients obtained from the quantizing.
Inventor(s): Masato Shima of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N19/126, H04N19/18, H04N19/186
Abstract: an image coding device that suppresses degradation of subjective image quality while improving the coding efficiency of residual coefficients of two chroma components. the image coding device that codes image data constituted by one luma component and two chroma components, comprises quantizing unit that performs an orthogonal transform on each of components of a block obtained by dividing an image to be coded, and quantizes transform coefficients of each of the components obtained from the orthogonal transform; and coding unit that codes residual coefficients obtained by the quantizing unit, wherein when coding the transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform of the two chroma components in an integrated manner, the coding unit quantizes transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform obtained from the integration using a predetermined quantization matrix, and codes residual coefficients obtained from the quantizing.
Inventor(s): Masato Shima of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N19/126, H04N19/18, H04N19/186
Abstract: an image coding device that suppresses degradation of subjective image quality while improving the coding efficiency of residual coefficients of two chroma components. the image coding device that codes image data constituted by one luma component and two chroma components, comprises quantizing unit that performs an orthogonal transform on each of components of a block obtained by dividing an image to be coded, and quantizes transform coefficients of each of the components obtained from the orthogonal transform; and coding unit that codes residual coefficients obtained by the quantizing unit, wherein when coding the transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform of the two chroma components in an integrated manner, the coding unit quantizes transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform obtained from the integration using a predetermined quantization matrix, and codes residual coefficients obtained from the quantizing.
Inventor(s): Masato Shima of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N19/126, H04N19/18, H04N19/186
Abstract: an image coding device that suppresses degradation of subjective image quality while improving the coding efficiency of residual coefficients of two chroma components. the image coding device that codes image data constituted by one luma component and two chroma components, comprises quantizing unit that performs an orthogonal transform on each of components of a block obtained by dividing an image to be coded, and quantizes transform coefficients of each of the components obtained from the orthogonal transform; and coding unit that codes residual coefficients obtained by the quantizing unit, wherein when coding the transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform of the two chroma components in an integrated manner, the coding unit quantizes transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform obtained from the integration using a predetermined quantization matrix, and codes residual coefficients obtained from the quantizing.
Inventor(s): Masato Shima of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N19/126, H04N19/18, H04N19/186
Abstract: an image coding device that suppresses degradation of subjective image quality while improving the coding efficiency of residual coefficients of two chroma components. the image coding device that codes image data constituted by one luma component and two chroma components, comprises quantizing unit that performs an orthogonal transform on each of components of a block obtained by dividing an image to be coded, and quantizes transform coefficients of each of the components obtained from the orthogonal transform; and coding unit that codes residual coefficients obtained by the quantizing unit, wherein when coding the transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform of the two chroma components in an integrated manner, the coding unit quantizes transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform obtained from the integration using a predetermined quantization matrix, and codes residual coefficients obtained from the quantizing.
Inventor(s): Masato Shima of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N19/126, H04N19/159, H04N19/176, H04N19/18, H04N19/91
Abstract: the present invention provides an image encoding apparatus for encoding a sequence of images, where the apparatus comprises a prediction unit which generates, for a target block to be encoded having a predetermined size in an image, a predicted image from both an intra-prediction image and an inter-prediction image, and obtains prediction errors that are differences between the target block and the predicted image; a transform unit which frequency-transforms the prediction errors, a quantization unit which quantize, using a quantization matrix, the transform coefficients, and an encoding unit which entropy-encodes quantized transform coefficients, wherein the quantization unit obtains the quantization matrix, using at least one of a predetermined quantization matrix for the intra-prediction and a predetermined quantization matrix for inter-prediction.
Inventor(s): Masato Shima of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N19/126, H04N19/159, H04N19/176, H04N19/18, H04N19/91
Abstract: the present invention provides an image encoding apparatus for encoding a sequence of images, where the apparatus comprises a prediction unit which generates, for a target block to be encoded having a predetermined size in an image, a predicted image from both an intra-prediction image and an inter-prediction image, and obtains prediction errors that are differences between the target block and the predicted image; a transform unit which frequency-transforms the prediction errors, a quantization unit which quantize, using a quantization matrix, the transform coefficients, and an encoding unit which entropy-encodes quantized transform coefficients, wherein the quantization unit obtains the quantization matrix, using at least one of a predetermined quantization matrix for the intra-prediction and a predetermined quantization matrix for inter-prediction.
Inventor(s): Masato Shima of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N19/126, H04N19/159, H04N19/176, H04N19/18, H04N19/91
Abstract: the present invention provides an image encoding apparatus for encoding a sequence of images, where the apparatus comprises a prediction unit which generates, for a target block to be encoded having a predetermined size in an image, a predicted image from both an intra-prediction image and an inter-prediction image, and obtains prediction errors that are differences between the target block and the predicted image; a transform unit which frequency-transforms the prediction errors, a quantization unit which quantize, using a quantization matrix, the transform coefficients, and an encoding unit which entropy-encodes quantized transform coefficients, wherein the quantization unit obtains the quantization matrix, using at least one of a predetermined quantization matrix for the intra-prediction and a predetermined quantization matrix for inter-prediction.
Inventor(s): Masato Shima of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N19/126, H04N19/159, H04N19/176, H04N19/18, H04N19/91
Abstract: the present invention provides an image encoding apparatus for encoding a sequence of images, where the apparatus comprises a prediction unit which generates, for a target block to be encoded having a predetermined size in an image, a predicted image from both an intra-prediction image and an inter-prediction image, and obtains prediction errors that are differences between the target block and the predicted image; a transform unit which frequency-transforms the prediction errors, a quantization unit which quantize, using a quantization matrix, the transform coefficients, and an encoding unit which entropy-encodes quantized transform coefficients, wherein the quantization unit obtains the quantization matrix, using at least one of a predetermined quantization matrix for the intra-prediction and a predetermined quantization matrix for inter-prediction.
Inventor(s): Masato Shima of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N19/126, H04N19/159, H04N19/176, H04N19/18, H04N19/91
Abstract: the present invention provides an image encoding apparatus for encoding a sequence of images, where the apparatus comprises a prediction unit which generates, for a target block to be encoded having a predetermined size in an image, a predicted image from both an intra-prediction image and an inter-prediction image, and obtains prediction errors that are differences between the target block and the predicted image; a transform unit which frequency-transforms the prediction errors, a quantization unit which quantize, using a quantization matrix, the transform coefficients, and an encoding unit which entropy-encodes quantized transform coefficients, wherein the quantization unit obtains the quantization matrix, using at least one of a predetermined quantization matrix for the intra-prediction and a predetermined quantization matrix for inter-prediction.
Inventor(s): Guillaume LAROCHE of SAINT AUBIN D'AUBIGNE (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Patrice ONNO of RENNES (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Jonathan TAQUET of TALENSAC (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Christophe GISQUET of ACIGNE (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N19/523, H04N19/56
Abstract: a method and a device for encoding or decoding video data. it concerns more particularly the encoding according to a particular encoding mode using a decoder side motion vector derivation mode referenced as frame-rate up conversion mode or fruc mode. in fruc merge mode, the derivation process comprises a refinement step to increase the accuracy of the obtained motion vector at the sub-pixel level. this process involves the evaluation of different sub-pixel position around the obtained motion vector according to different patterns. the present invention has been devised to improve the known refinement step. it aims at improving the coding efficiency by considering the characteristics of the matching type and/or the signal inside the templates.
Inventor(s): Guillaume LAROCHE of SAINT AUBIN D'AUBIGNE (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Patrice ONNO of RENNES (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Jonathan TAQUET of TALENSAC (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Christophe GISQUET of ACIGNE (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N19/523, H04N19/56
Abstract: a method and a device for encoding or decoding video data. it concerns more particularly the encoding according to a particular encoding mode using a decoder side motion vector derivation mode referenced as frame-rate up conversion mode or fruc mode. in fruc merge mode, the derivation process comprises a refinement step to increase the accuracy of the obtained motion vector at the sub-pixel level. this process involves the evaluation of different sub-pixel position around the obtained motion vector according to different patterns. the present invention has been devised to improve the known refinement step. it aims at improving the coding efficiency by considering the characteristics of the matching type and/or the signal inside the templates.
Inventor(s): Guillaume LAROCHE of SAINT AUBIN D'AUBIGNE (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Patrice ONNO of RENNES (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Jonathan TAQUET of TALENSAC (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Christophe GISQUET of ACIGNE (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N19/523, H04N19/56
Abstract: a method and a device for encoding or decoding video data. it concerns more particularly the encoding according to a particular encoding mode using a decoder side motion vector derivation mode referenced as frame-rate up conversion mode or fruc mode. in fruc merge mode, the derivation process comprises a refinement step to increase the accuracy of the obtained motion vector at the sub-pixel level. this process involves the evaluation of different sub-pixel position around the obtained motion vector according to different patterns. the present invention has been devised to improve the known refinement step. it aims at improving the coding efficiency by considering the characteristics of the matching type and/or the signal inside the templates.
Inventor(s): Guillaume LAROCHE of SAINT AUBIN D'AUBIGNE (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Patrice ONNO of RENNES (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Jonathan TAQUET of TALENSAC (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Christophe GISQUET of ACIGNE (FR) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N19/523, H04N19/56
Abstract: a method and a device for encoding or decoding video data. it concerns more particularly the encoding according to a particular encoding mode using a decoder side motion vector derivation mode referenced as frame-rate up conversion mode or fruc mode. in fruc merge mode, the derivation process comprises a refinement step to increase the accuracy of the obtained motion vector at the sub-pixel level. this process involves the evaluation of different sub-pixel position around the obtained motion vector according to different patterns. the present invention has been devised to improve the known refinement step. it aims at improving the coding efficiency by considering the characteristics of the matching type and/or the signal inside the templates.
Inventor(s): KEITA HIRAYAMA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N23/56, H04N23/52
Abstract: an illumination apparatus includes a first target portion including a light source, a second target portion different from the light source, and a processor configured to function as a light emission control unit, a calculation unit, and a control unit. the light emission control unit is configured to control a light emission operation of the light source. the calculation unit is configured to, based on heat generated by the light emission operation of the light source, calculate a first control temperature and a second control temperature. the control unit is configured to control the light emission operation. the calculation unit calculates the first control temperature based on a first influence degree of the heat generated by the light emission operation and calculates the second control temperature based on a second influence degree of the heat generated by the light emission operation different from the first influence degree.
Inventor(s): YOHEI HORIKAWA of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N23/61, H04N23/60, H04N23/67, H04N23/73
Abstract: an image pickup apparatus capable of processing subject detection in a multiple-exposure image with high accuracy and high speed is provided. the image pickup apparatus includes at least one processor, and a memory coupled to the processor storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to function as an acquisition unit to acquire images of a plurality of frames, a synthesis unit to synthesize the images of the plurality of frames to generate a multiple-exposure image, a first detection unit to detect at least one or more subjects with respect to at least one of the images of the plurality of frames, a determination unit to determine a subject type of a main subject of the multiple-exposure image based on a detection result obtained by the first detection unit, and a second detection unit to detect a subject of the determined subject type in the multiple-exposure image.
Inventor(s): KENTO INAI of Irvine CA (US) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N23/63, H04N23/62, H04N23/65
Abstract: an electronic apparatus that supplies and receives power to and from an external apparatus connected to the electronic apparatus. the electronic apparatus performs control such that a predetermined icon is displayed on a display. the electronic apparatus detects a predetermined touch operation on the predetermined icon displayed on the display. the electronic apparatus performs control such that a predetermined screen is displayed on the display together with the predetermined icon in accordance with the predetermined touch operation on the predetermined icon detected. the predetermined screen includes information on a direction of power flow between the electronic apparatus and the external apparatus connected to the electronic apparatus.
Inventor(s): SHOGO MATSUMOTO of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N23/67, H04N23/611
Abstract: an apparatus includes a sensor configured to capture a plurality of images different in in-focus position in an optical axis direction, and at least one processor configured to function as a control unit configured to control the sensor, a composition unit configured to generate, from the plurality of images, a composite image including an area more focused than each of the plurality of images, and a determination unit configured to determine whether a selfie is being taken. in a case where the selfie is being taken and a predetermined condition is satisfied, the control unit controls the sensor to capture the plurality of images, and the composition unit generates the composite image.
Inventor(s): Ryo TAKAHASHI of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N23/68, H04N23/63, H04N23/667
Abstract: an image capturing device is used which includes: an image capturing unit; and a control unit for performing control such that an image captured by the image capturing unit is displayed in a display unit, wherein the control unit is able to perform first angle-of-view display displaying the image with a first angle-of-view on the display unit and second angle-of-view display displaying the image with a second angle-of-view narrower than the first angle-of-view on the display unit by performing camera shake correction on the image and, in a case in which the image capturing device comes into a specific state when the second angle-of-view display is performed, the control unit displays an item for changing from the second angle-of-view display to the first angle-of-view on the display unit.
Inventor(s): DAISUKE HIRAI of Tochigi (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N23/68, G03B5/00
Abstract: a control apparatus for use in a camera system that includes a first correction member provided on one of an image pickup apparatus and a lens apparatus detachable from the image pickup apparatus, and a second correction member provided on the other of the image pickup apparatus and the lens apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to control image stabilization using first control configured to provide image stabilization based on a first correction ratio between image stabilization using the first correction member and image stabilization using the second correction member and to electronically correct a trapezoidal distortion in an image blur, or second control configured to provide image stabilization based on a second correction ratio between image stabilization using the first correction member and image stabilization using the second correction member without electronically correcting the trapezoidal distortion in an image blur.
20240089617.PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION APPARATUS_simplified_abstract_(canon kabushiki kaisha)
Inventor(s): Yoichi Wada of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha, Masahiro Kobayashi of Tokyo (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N25/11, H01L27/146
Abstract: a photoelectric conversion apparatus has a first filter arranged so as to correspond to a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second filter arranged so as to correspond to a second photoelectric conversion unit. the photoelectric conversion apparatus has a first processing unit configured to process an output signal from the first photoelectric conversion unit and having a first learned model, and a second processing unit configured to process an output signal from the second photoelectric conversion unit and having a second learned model different from the first learned model.
Inventor(s): JUMPEI ASHIDA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04N25/773, H04N25/79
Abstract: a photoelectric conversion device is provided. the device includes a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element, a plurality of calculators, and a processor. the plurality of pixels and the plurality of calculators are respectively arranged in a two-dimensional array. for the plurality of pixels, each pixel group of pixel groups composed of not less than two pixels of the plurality of pixels is connected to a corresponding calculator of the plurality of calculators, and each pixel group outputs a spiking signal generated by a pixel in a pixel group of the pixel groups to the corresponding calculator of the plurality of calculators. each of the plurality of calculators executes calculation for the spiking signal, and the processor processes a calculation result input from each of the plurality of calculators.
Inventor(s): YUKI YOSHIKAWA of Kanagawa (JP) for canon kabushiki kaisha
IPC Code(s): H04W76/15, H04L5/00, H04W72/0453
Abstract: a communication apparatus capable of multilink communication complying with ieee 802.11 standard series, comprises a determination unit configured to determine, from a plurality of wireless links established with another communication apparatus, a primary link complying with the ieee 802.11 standard series, which is a link capable of transmission of a predetermined type of a radio frame. the determination unit determines the primary link based on at least one of a first condition concerning a plurality of frequency channels corresponding to the plurality of wireless links, and a second condition concerning a radio wave status in each of the plurality of wireless links.
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