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1.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USE IN MANAGING CONDITIONAL HANDOVER IN A SIDELINK RELAY NETWORK

      
Application Number EP2023077362
Publication Number 2024/074514
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-10-03
Publication Date 2024-04-11
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON EUROPE LIMITED (United Kingdom)
Inventor
  • Lagrange, Pascal
  • Guignard, Romain

Abstract

Method and apparatus for use in managing conditional handover, CHO, of a relay user equipment, UE, from a source base station to a target base station, the relay UE serving one or more remote UEs via one or more sidelink connections, are disclosed. A method at the relay UE comprises sending, to the one or more remote UEs, a CHO notification indicating the relay UE has been configured to perform CHO. A method at one of the one or more remote UEs comprises receiving, from the relay UE, CHO notification indicating that the relay UE has been configured to perform CHO. The CHO notification may further indicate that the relay UE is to perform CHO. Alternatively, another CHO notification may be sent to the one or more remote UEs/received at one of the one or more remote UEs, with the another CHO notification indicating that the relay UE is to perform CHO.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 36/36 - Reselection control by user or terminal equipment
  • H04W 84/00 - Network topologies
  • H04W 84/22 - Self-organising networks, e.g. ad hoc networks or sensor networks with access to wired networks

2.

VIBRATION ACTUATOR DRIVE DEVICE AND DRIVE METHOD FOR SAME

      
Application Number JP2023033870
Publication Number 2024/075506
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-09-19
Publication Date 2024-04-11
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Kataoka Kenichi

Abstract

This vibration actuator drive device comprises: a first vibration detection means 241 and a second vibration detection means 242 that mutually independently detect the vibration of the vibrating body of a vibration actuator 100; a timing setting means 251 that sets the timing of detection by the second vibration detection means 242 on the basis of a first output signal of the first vibration detection means 241; a sampling means 252 that samples a second output signal of the second vibration detection means 242 at the timing set by the timing setting means 251 and obtains a signed vibration amount; and a calculation means 253 that calculates a vibration vector in the moving direction of a moving body of the vibration actuator 100 on the basis of the signed vibration amount obtained by the sampling means 252.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02N 2/14 - Drive circuits; Control arrangements
  • H02N 2/16 - Electric machines in general using piezoelectric effect, electrostriction or magnetostriction producing rotary motion, e.g. rotary motors using travelling waves

3.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

      
Application Number JP2023031898
Publication Number 2024/075448
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-31
Publication Date 2024-04-11
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tomioka Makoto
  • Kobayashi Kazuhiko

Abstract

The present invention has: an object characteristics information input means that, in order to improve a process associated with image recognition, inputs object characteristics information that includes at least two or more of object characteristic information composed of type information that represents the type name of an object and three-dimensional position information pertaining to the object in a space; an object arrangement characteristic database that holds the type information that represents the type name of the object in association with the three-dimensional position information pertaining to the object in the space; and a prediction means that predicts information associated with the information included in the object characteristics information, on the basis of the object characteristics information inputted by the object characteristics information input means and the object arrangement characteristic database.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06T 7/00 - Image analysis
  • G06V 10/82 - Arrangements for image or video recognition or understanding using pattern recognition or machine learning using neural networks

4.

GENE EXPRESSION METHOD, PLANT CULTIVATION METHOD, AND PLANT CULTIVATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023026483
Publication Number 2024/075368
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-19
Publication Date 2024-04-11
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Higashiyama Taku
  • Yamamoto Akira
  • Yamakubo Takeshi
  • Sekine Rui

Abstract

The present invention includes: a generation step for generating ultrafine bubbles in a liquid so as to generate an ultrafine bubble-containing liquid; and an expression step for applying, to a plant, the ultrafine bubble-containing liquid generated in the generation step, and expressing a disease response gene in said plant.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C12N 15/29 - Genes encoding plant proteins, e.g. thaumatin
  • A01H 5/04 - Stems
  • A01H 5/06 - Roots
  • A01H 5/10 - Seeds
  • A01H 5/12 - Leaves
  • A01H 6/14 - Asteraceae or Compositae, e.g. safflower, sunflower, artichoke or lettuce
  • A01H 6/20 - Brassicaceae, e.g. canola, broccoli or rucola
  • A01H 6/82 - Solanaceae, e.g. pepper, tobacco, potato, tomato or eggplant
  • B01F 23/2375 - Mixing gases with liquids by introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids characterised by the physical or chemical properties of gases or vapours introduced in the liquid media for obtaining fine bubbles, i.e. bubbles with a size below 100 µm for obtaining bubbles with a size below 1 µm
  • B01F 31/85 - Mixing by means of high-frequency vibrations above one kHz, e.g. ultrasonic vibrations with a vibrating element inside the receptacle
  • B01F 35/93 - Heating or cooling systems arranged inside the receptacle

5.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

      
Application Number JP2023031857
Publication Number 2024/075447
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-31
Publication Date 2024-04-11
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tomioka, Makoto
  • Kobayashi, Kazuhiko

Abstract

This information processing device comprises: an object characteristic group information input means for inputting object characteristic group information including at least two items of object characteristic information comprising type information indicating a type name of an object, and three-dimensional position information of the object in space; an object placement characteristic database for holding the type information indicating the type name of the object and the three-dimensional position information of the object in space, in association with one another; a predicting means for predicting information relating to the information included in the object characteristic group information on the basis of the object characteristic group information input using the object characteristic group information input means and the object placement characteristic database; and an object placement characteristic database updating means for updating the object placement characteristic database on the basis of the object characteristic group information input by the object characteristic group information input means and a prediction result obtained by the predicting means.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06T 7/00 - Image analysis
  • G06V 10/82 - Arrangements for image or video recognition or understanding using pattern recognition or machine learning using neural networks

6.

MEASURING DEVICE, MEASURING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023025088
Publication Number 2024/070120
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-06
Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Kobayashi Kana

Abstract

[Problem] To provide a measuring device capable of measuring a growth index of a plant with a high degree of accuracy. [Solution] A measuring device (1000) for measuring a growth index of a plant includes an optical detecting unit (300) including an imaging optical system (301) and an imaging element (303) in which a plurality of photoelectric conversion units (311) are arranged two-dimensionally, and an arithmetic processing unit (500) for calculating the growth index of the plant on the basis of information acquired by the optical detecting unit, wherein: the plurality of photoelectric conversion units each include an avalanche diode; the optical detecting unit acquires reflected light from the plant, serving as a first subject (101), and reference light from a second subject (102), spectrally diffracts the reflected light from the plant to acquire first light intensity distribution information having a first wavelength as a peak wavelength, and second light intensity distribution information having a second wavelength as a peak wavelength, and acquires light intensity distribution reference information from the reference light; and the arithmetic processing unit computes the growth index on the basis of the first light intensity distribution information, the second light intensity distribution information, and the light intensity distribution reference information.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01N 21/3563 - Investigating relative effect of material at wavelengths characteristic of specific elements or molecules, e.g. atomic absorption spectrometry using infrared light for analysing solids; Preparation of samples therefor
  • A01G 7/00 - Botany in general
  • G01N 21/27 - Colour; Spectral properties, i.e. comparison of effect of material on the light at two or more different wavelengths or wavelength bands using photo-electric detection
  • G01N 21/359 - Investigating relative effect of material at wavelengths characteristic of specific elements or molecules, e.g. atomic absorption spectrometry using infrared light using near infrared light

7.

IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

      
Application Number JP2023025231
Publication Number 2024/070124
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-07
Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Sakamoto Daisuke

Abstract

[Problem] To provide an imaging device with which it is possible for a user to easily adjust the focus when capturing virtual reality (VR) images. [Solution] The present invention has: imaging units (101, 102, 103) that acquire a captured image; a conversion processing unit (107) that performs prescribed conversion processing on at least one partial region of the captured image and generates a converted image; a peaking processing unit (105) that performs peaking processing for adjusting the focus of the captured image and/or the converted image and generates a peaking image; an image synthesis unit (106) that generates a synthesized image of the peaking image and at least one of the captured image or the converted image; and a display control unit (109) that performs control so that the synthesized image is displayed on a display unit (110). When settings are adopted such that the peaking processing is performed on the converted image and then the synthesized image is displayed, the display control unit causes the synthesized image of the peaking image and the converted image to be displayed on the display unit. The partial region includes the periphery of the captured image.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 23/60 - Control of cameras or camera modules
  • G02B 7/36 - Systems for automatic generation of focusing signals using image sharpness techniques
  • G03B 13/36 - Autofocus systems
  • G03B 15/00 - Special procedures for taking photographs; Apparatus therefor
  • G03B 17/18 - Signals indicating condition of a camera member or suitability of light
  • G03B 37/00 - Panoramic or wide-screen photography; Photographing extended surfaces, e.g. for surveying; Photographing internal surfaces, e.g. of pipe
  • H04N 13/218 - Image signal generators using stereoscopic image cameras using a single 2D image sensor using spatial multiplexing
  • H04N 23/63 - Control of cameras or camera modules by using electronic viewfinders

8.

RECORDING DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND SYSTEM

      
Application Number JP2023030287
Publication Number 2024/070347
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-23
Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yamamoto, Yuki
  • Minoshima, Toshio
  • Komiyama, Tomoaki

Abstract

This recording device, which comprises a communication unit and records moving-image data received from an imaging device via the communication unit, comprises: an image file recording unit that starts recording of the moving-image data from the imaging device in response to reception of a recording start command via the communication unit, and terminates the recording of the moving-image data in response to reception of a recording termination command via the communication unit, thereby recording a moving-image file; and a meta file recording unit that starts creation of a meta file related to the moving-image data on the basis of information received at the time of receiving the recording start command via the communication unit and relating to the creation of the meta file, and completes the meta file with meta data received at the time of receiving the recording termination command.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 5/92 - Transformation of the television signal for recording, e.g. modulation, frequency changing; Inverse transformation for playback
  • G06F 16/78 - Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
  • H04N 5/77 - Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus between a recording apparatus and a television camera
  • H04N 23/60 - Control of cameras or camera modules

9.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND APPLICATION INSTALLED ON INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023033873
Publication Number 2024/070804
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-09-19
Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Kitabatake Hironobu

Abstract

The application described in the present application is an application installed on an information processing device, the application comprising: an acquisition step for acquiring setting values set in the object displayed on the information processing device; and a providing step for providing status information that is acquired from a printing device and selected on the basis of the setting values acquired in the acquisition step to an operating system of the information processing device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism

10.

RECOVERY APPARATUS FOR BLADE RUBBER, RECOVERY METHOD FOR BLADE RUBBER, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR RECOVERY BLADE RUBBER

      
Application Number JP2023035107
Publication Number 2024/071181
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-09-27
Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kodama, Katsuya
  • Matsuda, Hidekazu
  • Aoyama, Takehiko
  • Mizunuma, Takayuki

Abstract

Provided is a recovery apparatus for a blade rubber, the recovery apparatus being capable of more precisely recovering the blade rubber having reduced wiping performance. This recovery apparatus for a blade rubber comprises a blade part for cutting, in the longitudinal direction of the blade rubber, the leading edge of a lip section of the blade rubber. The recovery apparatus cuts a portion of the leading edge of the lip section by moving the blade part relatively from an end portion A, which is one of the end portions of the blade rubber in the longitudinal direction, toward an end portion B, which is the other end portion. The recovery apparatus comprises a clamping member for the lip section and a pressing member for pressing the leading edge of the lip section, the clamping member clamping at least a portion of the lip section from both side portions of the lip section under a specific condition, and the pressing member pressing the leading edge of the lip section prior to said movement.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60S 1/38 - Wiper blades
  • B26D 1/04 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a linearly-movable cutting member
  • B26D 3/00 - Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor
  • B26D 7/02 - Means for holding or positioning work with clamping means
  • B26D 7/08 - Means for treating work or cutting member to facilitate cutting

11.

RANGING DEVICE, ONBOARD SYSTEM, AND MOBILE DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023025221
Publication Number 2024/070123
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-07
Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kadowaki Ryota
  • Kajiyama Kazuhiko

Abstract

[Problem] To provide a small highly-accurate ranging device. [Solution] A ranging device (1) comprises: an optical system (101) in which the focal distance in a peripheral region away from an optical axis is shorter than the focal distance at a center region including the optical axis; an imaging element (102) having a plurality of pixels that receive an image of an object formed by the optical system; and an acquisition unit (103) that acquires distance information of the object from a parallax image acquired by the imaging element on the basis of luminous fluxes from two different pupil positions of the optical system. The parallax direction of the parallax image includes a component of a direction orthogonal to an installation surface.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01C 3/06 - Use of electric means to obtain final indication
  • G02B 7/28 - Systems for automatic generation of focusing signals
  • G02B 7/34 - Systems for automatic generation of focusing signals using different areas in a pupil plane
  • G02B 13/00 - Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below
  • G02B 13/18 - Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below with lenses having one or more non-spherical faces, e.g. for reducing geometrical aberration
  • H04N 23/54 - Mounting of pick-up tubes, electronic image sensors, deviation or focusing coils
  • H04N 23/55 - Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof
  • H04N 23/67 - Focus control based on electronic image sensor signals

12.

IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING ELEMENT CONTROL METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

      
Application Number JP2023029418
Publication Number 2024/070285
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-14
Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Matsubara, Kosuke
  • Hirano, Hiroshi
  • Ueda, Toshiharu
  • Tozawa, Shohei
  • Jikei, Kazuto
  • Karahashi, Fumihito
  • Ito, Daisuke

Abstract

Provided is an imaging device comprising: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix; a plurality of output lines, a plurality of which are disposed in each row and to which signals from the plurality of pixels are output; a plurality of signal processing means which are provided one-to-one to the plurality of output lines and which are capable of switching between connection and disconnection with respect to the respective output lines; and a control means. Each of the plurality of pixels includes: a photoelectric conversion element; a floating diffusion (FD) unit for converting a charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion element to voltage; and an FD expansion means for expanding the capacity of the FD unit, said means being capable of switching between connection and disconnection. The control means controls connection and disconnection of the FD expansion means, and controls connection and disconnection between the plurality of output lines and the plurality of signal processing means.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 25/78 - Readout circuits for addressed sensors, e.g. output amplifiers or A/D converters
  • H04N 25/771 - Pixel circuitry, e.g. memories, A/D converters, pixel amplifiers, shared circuits or shared components comprising storage means other than floating diffusion
  • H04N 25/581 - Control of the dynamic range involving two or more exposures acquired simultaneously
  • H04N 25/42 - Extracting pixel data from image sensors by controlling scanning circuits, e.g. by modifying the number of pixels sampled or to be sampled by switching between different modes of operation using different resolutions or aspect ratios, e.g. switching between interlaced and non-interlaced mode

13.

IMAGING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR, AND SYSTEM

      
Application Number JP2023030286
Publication Number 2024/070346
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-23
Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Yamamoto, Yuki

Abstract

An imaging device that comprises a communication unit and that transmits moving image data obtained by imaging to an external device for recording the same via the communication unit, said imaging device comprising: a moving image transmission unit that receives an instruction to start recording and transmits moving image data obtained by imaging using an imaging unit to the external device via the communication unit, and receives an instruction to end recording and ends the transmission of the moving image data to the external device; a metadata generation unit that receives the instruction to start recording and generates metadata pertaining to the start of recording of the moving image data, and receives the instruction to end recording and generates metadata pertaining to the end of recording of the moving image data; and a metadata transmission unit that receives the instruction to end recording and transmits the metadata from the start of the recording to the end of the recording to the external device via the communication unit.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 5/92 - Transformation of the television signal for recording, e.g. modulation, frequency changing; Inverse transformation for playback
  • H04N 5/77 - Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus between a recording apparatus and a television camera
  • H04N 21/433 - Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request or caching operations
  • H04N 21/435 - Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data or reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
  • H04N 21/436 - Interfacing a local distribution network, e.g. communicating with another STB or inside the home
  • H04N 23/60 - Control of cameras or camera modules

14.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023033874
Publication Number 2024/070805
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-09-19
Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Maeda Yoichi

Abstract

This communication device functions as a base station which carries out cellular transmission with respect to User Equipment (UE). Further, if the number of pieces of UE connected to the base station provided by the communication device reaches the connected number-of-pieces upper-limit, the communication device performs notification, to the outside, with respect to information indicating that the connected number-of-pieces upper-limit has been reached.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 48/08 - Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery
  • H04W 16/26 - Cell enhancers, e.g. for tunnels or building shadow
  • H04W 48/06 - Access restriction performed under specific conditions based on traffic conditions
  • H04W 48/10 - Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery using broadcasted information
  • H04W 48/14 - Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery using user query
  • H04W 48/16 - Discovering; Processing access restriction or access information

15.

RADIOGRAPHY DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023035049
Publication Number 2024/071154
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-09-27
Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Suzuki Masataka
  • Koyanagi Takahiro
  • Fukushima Takashi
  • Otsubo Yoshitaka
  • Yamamoto Takahiro
  • Kyogoku Satomi
  • Yoshimura Yuri
  • Uehata Kaito

Abstract

A radiography device according to the present invention is characterized by having: a radiation detection panel that has an effective imaging area that detects radiation that passes through a subject and is incident at an incidence surface; and a housing that contains the radiation detection panel. The radiography device is also characterized in that the housing has: a thick part that is thick in the normal direction of the incidence surface and is provided at one end of the housing; and a thin part that is thinner than the thick part and at least partially overlaps the effective imaging area as seen from the normal direction of the incidence surface. The radiography device is also characterized in that a recessed grasping part is provided in the thick part.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01T 1/20 - Measuring radiation intensity with scintillation detectors
  • G01T 7/00 - MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION - Details of radiation-measuring instruments
  • G03B 42/04 - Holders for X-ray films
  • A61B 6/42 - Arrangements for detecting radiation specially adapted for radiation diagnosis

16.

BLADE RUBBER REGENERATION DEVICE, BLADE RUBBER REGENERATION METHOD, AND REGENERATED BLADE RUBBER MANUFACTURING METHOD

      
Application Number JP2023035079
Publication Number 2024/071174
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-09-27
Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kodama, Katsuya
  • Matsuda, Hidekazu
  • Aoyama, Takehiko

Abstract

Provided is a blade rubber regeneration device capable of more accurately regenerating a blade rubber of which the wiping performance has decreased. The blade rubber regeneration device comprises a blade unit for cutting the tip-end of a lip portion of the blade rubber in the longitudinal direction of the blade rubber. The regeneration device causes the blade unit to relatively move from an end portion A that is one end portion in the longitudinal direction of the blade rubber toward an end portion B that is the other end portion, to cut a part of the tip-end of the lip portion. The regeneration device comprises a lip-portion pinching member, a biasing member that abuts on and biases the end portion B of the lip portion, and a pressing member that presses the tip-end of the lip portion. The pinching member pinches at least a part of the lip portion from either side of the lip portion under a specific condition. The pressing member presses the tip-end of the lip portion before the movement.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60S 1/38 - Wiper blades
  • B26D 1/04 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a linearly-movable cutting member
  • B26D 3/00 - Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor
  • B26D 7/01 - Means for holding or positioning work
  • B26D 7/02 - Means for holding or positioning work with clamping means
  • B26D 7/08 - Means for treating work or cutting member to facilitate cutting

17.

BLADE RUBBER REGENERATION DEVICE, BLADE RUBBER REGENERATION METHOD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING REGENERATED BLADE RUBBER

      
Application Number JP2023035161
Publication Number 2024/071206
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-09-27
Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kodama, Katsuya
  • Matsuda, Hidekazu
  • Aoyama, Takehiko
  • Mizunuma, Takayuki

Abstract

Provided is a blade rubber regeneration device that can more precisely regenerate blade rubber that has reduced wiping performance. Provided is a blade rubber regeneration device, the regeneration device comprising a cutting part for cutting the distal end of a lip part of a blade rubber in the longitudinal direction of the blade rubber, the regeneration device cutting a portion of the distal end of the lip part by causing the cutting part to move in a relative manner from an end part A, which is one end part in the longitudinal direction of the blade rubber, to an end part B which is the other end part, and the regeneration device being provided with a lip part pinching member.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60S 1/38 - Wiper blades
  • B26D 1/04 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a linearly-movable cutting member
  • B26D 3/00 - Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor
  • B26D 7/02 - Means for holding or positioning work with clamping means
  • B26D 7/08 - Means for treating work or cutting member to facilitate cutting

18.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USE IN MANAGING HANDOVER OF A RELAY USER EQUIPMENT

      
Application Number EP2023076729
Publication Number 2024/068745
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-09-27
Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON EUROPE LIMITED (United Kingdom)
Inventor
  • Lagrange, Pascal
  • Guignard, Romain

Abstract

A method for use in managing handover of a relay user equipment, UE, from a source base station to a target base station, the relay UE serving one or more remote UEs via one or more sidelink connections, is disclosed. The method at the source base station comprises sending, to the target base station, a handover request for the relay UE and sending, to the target base station, remote UE information associated with all or some of the one or more remote UEs served by the relay UE. The remote UE information may be sent as part of managing handover of the relay UE. In an example, the remote UE information is associated with the remote UEs which would remain connected to the relay UE after handover for the relay UE is completed. Methods at the target base station and relay UE and apparatus are also disclosed.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 36/00 - Handoff or reselecting arrangements

19.

APPARATUS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF HEADS AND A METHOD OF USING THE SAME

      
Application Number US2023028136
Publication Number 2024/072525
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-19
Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON NANOTECHNOLOGIES, INC. (USA)
Inventor
  • Choi, Byung-Jin
  • Cherala, Anshuman

Abstract

An apparatus can include a support structure and a docking station, wherein the apparatus is configured to move the docking station relative to the support structure. The apparatus can further include a head among a plurality of heads. The apparatus can also include a first coupler configured to couple the head to the support structure and to decouple the head from the support structure and a second coupler configured to couple the head to the docking station and to decouple the head from the docking station. A method of using the apparatus can include coupling the head to the docking station and decoupling the first head from the support structure. The method can further include moving the docking station along the support structure. The method can also include coupling the head to the support structure and decoupling the head from the docking station.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H01L 21/58 - Mounting semiconductor devices on supports
  • H01L 21/687 - Apparatus specially adapted for handling semiconductor or electric solid state devices during manufacture or treatment thereof; Apparatus specially adapted for handling wafers during manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or electric solid state devices or components for supporting or gripping using mechanical means, e.g. chucks, clamps or pinches
  • H01L 23/12 - Mountings, e.g. non-detachable insulating substrates
  • H05K 13/04 - Mounting of components

20.

ELECTRICAL DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023025226
Publication Number 2024/062736
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-07
Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ogushi Takuhiro
  • Ueki Hideyuki
  • Ezumi Yosuke
  • Nishikawa Yukinori
  • Aida Takahiro

Abstract

An electrical device provided with a control means that controls the electrical device, a power supply means that supplies power to the control means, and a power control means that controls the power supply means to supply and cut off the power to the control means, wherein the control means and the power control means can communicate in a command format, and the power control means instructs the power supply means to cut off the power supplied to the control means, on the basis of a stop command received from the control means.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 1/30 - Means for acting in the event of power-supply failure or interruption, e.g. power-supply fluctuations
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
  • G06F 1/26 - Power supply means, e.g. regulation thereof
  • H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof

21.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023033879
Publication Number 2024/063046
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-09-19
Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Tachibana Hideaki

Abstract

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method that allows a device equipped with a plurality of communication interfaces to appropriately execute a communication parameter setting process. A communication device capable of communicating through a plurality of communication interfaces that perform wireless local area network (LAN) communication is characterized by comprising: an execution means for executing a communication parameter configuration process; and a determination means for determining a communication interface to be used in the configuration process from among the plurality of communication interfaces, wherein the execution means executes the configuration process by using the communication interface determined by the determination means.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 76/15 - Setup of multiple wireless link connections
  • H04W 4/00 - Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
  • H04W 12/47 - Security arrangements using identity modules using near field communication [NFC] or radio frequency identification [RFID] modules
  • H04W 12/77 - Graphical identity
  • H04W 84/10 - Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks
  • H04W 84/12 - WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

22.

MICROCHANNEL DEVICE, SEPARATION DEVICE, AND SEPARATION METHOD

      
Application Number JP2023031957
Publication Number 2024/062903
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-31
Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Miki, Tsutomu
  • Kojima, Makoto
  • Hoshihira, Takamitsu
  • Higuchi, Yuhi
  • Nagoya, Toshimitsu
  • Uchida, Kouichi
  • Sakai, Tetsuya

Abstract

Provided is a microchannel device comprising a flow path that circulates along a curve, wherein a cross section of the flow path obtained by cutting the flow path along a direction orthogonal to the direction in which a liquid with particles dispersed therein flows is asymmetrically shaped. According to the microchannel device, in the asymmetrically-shaped cross section of the flow path, a flow path cross-sectional area S1 that is further toward the inner circumferential side than a line segment LS connecting, by the shortest distance, a lower side (12) and a point PP at which the distance between an upper side (11) and the lower side is at maximum is larger than a flow path cross-sectional area S2 that is further toward the outer circumferential side than the line segment LS.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B03B 5/62 - Washing granular, powdered or lumpy materials; Wet separating by hydraulic classifiers, e.g. of launder, tank, spiral or helical chute concentrator type
  • B01J 19/00 - Chemical, physical or physico-chemical processes in general; Their relevant apparatus
  • C12M 1/00 - Apparatus for enzymology or microbiology
  • G01N 1/10 - Devices for withdrawing samples in the liquid or fluent state
  • G01N 15/00 - Investigating characteristics of particles; Investigating permeability, pore-volume or surface-area of porous materials
  • G01N 35/08 - Automatic analysis not limited to methods or materials provided for in any single one of groups ; Handling materials therefor using a stream of discrete samples flowing along a tube system, e.g. flow injection analysis
  • G01N 37/00 - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES - Details not covered by any other group of this subclass

23.

POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

      
Application Number JP2023027832
Publication Number 2024/062770
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-28
Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Shimura, Hajime

Abstract

A power transmission device 100 that wirelessly transmits power to a power reception device 200 detects an object by transmitting an analog ping. The power transmission device 100 transmits a digital ping, activates the power reception device 200, and performs communication. The power transmission device 100 determines the strength of electromagnetic coupling between a power transmission antenna and a power reception antenna using a plurality of the analog pings or digital pings with different conditions. When it is recognized that the electromagnetic coupling between both antennas is weak, the power transmission device 100 performs control to reduce noise leaking from the antennas to the surrounding areas, or control to prevent communication between the power transmission device 100 and the power reception device 200 from becoming unstable, or control to reduce a deterioration in detection accuracy of foreign objects existing between the power transmission device 100 and the power reception device 200.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02J 50/10 - Circuit arrangements or systems for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling
  • H02J 50/80 - Circuit arrangements or systems for wireless supply or distribution of electric power involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices

24.

SERVER DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME, PROGRAM, AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

      
Application Number JP2023029417
Publication Number 2024/062800
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-14
Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Hirajima, Marehiko

Abstract

According to the present invention, a management server (server device) manages, as a contract pertaining to a use of an image formation device, a contract specifying the number of printable pages in a prescribed period in the image formation device. The management server receives a change request for increasing the number of printable pages in a first managed contract. The management server decreases, by the number of pages requested in the received change request, the number of printable pages in a second contract that is different from the first contract, and changes the number of printable pages in the first contract by change processing for increasing, by the number of pages requested by the change request, the number of printable pages in the first contract.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
  • G06Q 50/10 - Services

25.

MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023031810
Publication Number 2024/062894
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-31
Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ueno, Makiko
  • Noda, Takeshi
  • Nakayama, Akiya

Abstract

This medical image processing device acquires first data obtained using a first X-ray detection method and second data obtained using a second X-ray detection method different from the first X-ray detection method (S101, S102), processes the first data or a signal for obtaining the first data to generate third data made to resemble the second data (S103), and aligns data based on the first data with data based on the second data on the basis of the result of aligning the data based on the second data with data based on the third data (S104).

IPC Classes  ?

26.

ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT

      
Application Number JP2023034198
Publication Number 2024/063116
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-09-21
Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nishide Yosuke
  • Miyabe Masahito
  • Miyashita Hirokazu
  • Yamada Naoki

Abstract

Provided is an organic light-emitting element that has high efficiency and exceptional drive durability characteristics. The present disclosure provides an organic light-emitting element having a substrate, a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode, the organic light-emitting element being characterized in that: the light-emitting layer contains a first organic compound, a second organic compound, and a third organic compound; in the first to third organic compounds, a freely rotatable single bond is composed of a carbon-carbon bond; at least one of the carbon atoms in a freely rotatable carbon-carbon bond of the second organic compound is an sp2 carbon atom; and the following relationships [I] and [II] are satisfied, where HOMO1 is the HOMO energy level of the first organic compound, LUMO2 is the LUMO energy level of the second organic compound, and HOMO3 and LUMO3 respectively are the HOMO and LUMO energy levels of the third organic compound. [Relationship I]: |LUMO2|>|LUMO3|; [Relationship II]: |HOMO3|>|HOMO1|

IPC Classes  ?

  • H10K 50/12 - OLEDs or polymer light-emitting diodes [PLED] characterised by the electroluminescent [EL] layers comprising dopants
  • H10K 50/15 - Hole transporting layers
  • H10K 50/16 - Electron transporting layers
  • H10K 50/18 - Carrier blocking layers
  • H10K 50/854 - Arrangements for extracting light from the devices comprising scattering means
  • H10K 59/12 - Active-matrix OLED [AMOLED] displays
  • H10K 85/30 - Coordination compounds
  • H10K 85/60 - Organic compounds having low molecular weight
  • H10K 101/30 - Highest occupied molecular orbital [HOMO], lowest unoccupied molecular orbital [LUMO] or Fermi energy values
  • H10K 101/40 - Interrelation of parameters between multiple constituent active layers or sublayers, e.g. HOMO values in adjacent layers

27.

ELECTRONIC DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023022636
Publication Number 2024/057650
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-19
Publication Date 2024-03-21
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Ogawa, Seiji

Abstract

The electronic device according to the present invention is characterized by including: an acquisition means that acquires information unique to a virtual space; and a control means that executes control such that the information unique to the virtual space is recorded when control is executed such that an image of the virtual space is recorded.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06T 19/00 - Manipulating 3D models or images for computer graphics
  • G06F 3/01 - Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer
  • G06F 3/0482 - Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

28.

OPTICAL DEVICE, IN-VEHICLE SYSTEM, AND MOBILE DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023024309
Publication Number 2024/057675
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-30
Publication Date 2024-03-21
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Wakashima Shunichi
  • Fukuda Koichi
  • Okamoto Kohei
  • Hanasaka Takashi

Abstract

[Problem] To provide an optical device that is small and is capable of reducing the effects of reflection light. [Solution] An optical device (1) comprises: a light emitting unit (111) having a plurality of light emitting elements (201); a light receiving unit (121) having a plurality of light receiving elements (301); an imaging optical system (130); an optical division unit (155) having a reflecting mirror (151); and acquisition units (122, 123) that acquire object distance information on the basis of the time from the emission of light by the light emitting unit until the reception of light reflected from the object by the light receiving unit. The light from the light emitting unit is reflected by the reflecting mirror, passes through the imaging optical system, and is reflected by the object. The light reflected by the object passes through the imaging optical system, traverses the reflecting mirror, and is received by the light receiving unit. A first light emitting element among the plurality of light emitting elements and a first light receiving element among the plurality of light receiving elements have a conjugated relationship with the reflecting mirror therebetween. The optical division unit suppresses the entry of light from the first light emitting element into the first light receiving element.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01S 7/481 - Constructional features, e.g. arrangements of optical elements
  • G01C 3/06 - Use of electric means to obtain final indication
  • G01S 7/483 - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES - Details of systems according to groups , , of systems according to group - Details of pulse systems
  • G01S 17/894 - 3D imaging with simultaneous measurement of time-of-flight at a 2D array of receiver pixels, e.g. time-of-flight cameras or flash lidar
  • G01S 17/931 - Lidar systems, specially adapted for specific applications for anti-collision purposes of land vehicles
  • G08G 1/16 - Anti-collision systems

29.

ELECTRIC DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023025227
Publication Number 2024/057686
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-07
Publication Date 2024-03-21
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ueki, Hideyuki
  • Ezumi, Yosuke
  • Ogushi, Takuhiro
  • Nishikawa, Yukinori
  • Aida, Takahiro

Abstract

An electric device comprising: a control means that controls the electric device; a power supply means that supplies power to the control means; and a power control means that controls the supply and shutoff of power to the control means by the power supply means, wherein when power has been supplied from the power supply means according to the control of the power control means, the control means performs processing that differs on the basis of whether the supply of said power is the initial supply after powering on the power supply means.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
  • G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge

30.

ELECTRIC DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023025228
Publication Number 2024/057687
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-07
Publication Date 2024-03-21
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ueki, Hideyuki
  • Ezumi, Yosuke
  • Ogushi, Takuhiro
  • Nishikawa, Yukinori
  • Aida, Takahiro

Abstract

The present invention is provided with an electric device including a sensing means for sensing a state of the electric device, a control means for acquiring sensing results of the sensing means, and executing control on the basis of the sensing results, and a storing means for storing the sensing results of the sensing means as sensing information. An electric power state of the control means includes a first state, and a second state in which electric power consumption is greater than the first state. The control means acquires the sensing results in the second state but does not acquire the sensing results in the first state, and further, in a case of the electric power state transitioning from the first state to the second state, acquires the sensing information stored in the storing means in the first state.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 1/3287 - Power saving characterised by the action undertaken by switching off individual functional units in the computer system
  • B41J 29/13 - Cases or covers
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
  • G06F 1/3215 - Monitoring of peripheral devices
  • G06F 1/3231 - Monitoring the presence, absence or movement of users
  • H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof

31.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023031667
Publication Number 2024/057937
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-31
Publication Date 2024-03-21
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Katsuragi Tetsuya

Abstract

This communication device (200) having a Sidelink communication function comprises: a determination means (201) that determines whether communication between another communication device (20C) and a relay device having a Sidelink Relay function is possible or not; and a communication means (204) that transfers a message transmitted/received between the other communication device (20C) and the relay device (10) when the determination means (201) determines that the communication between the other communication device (20C) and the relay device (10) is not possible.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 76/14 - Direct-mode setup
  • H04W 4/44 - Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P] for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
  • H04W 4/46 - Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P] for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]
  • H04W 16/26 - Cell enhancers, e.g. for tunnels or building shadow
  • H04W 88/04 - Terminal devices adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user
  • H04W 92/18 - Interfaces between hierarchically similar devices between terminal devices

32.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

      
Application Number JP2023021542
Publication Number 2024/057642
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-09
Publication Date 2024-03-21
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Takagi, Toshiyuki

Abstract

This information processing device comprises: a determination means that determines an arrangement, in a non-real space, of a plurality of avatars corresponding respectively to a plurality of participants of a service which enables communication in the non-real space; and an acquisition means that, when it has been detected that in the non-real space, a second participant of the service is present around a first participant who has newly joined the service, acquires information related to a positional relationship between the first participant and the second participant in the non-real space. The information processing device is characterized in that the determination means determines the arrangement of the plurality of avatars on the basis of the information.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06T 19/00 - Manipulating 3D models or images for computer graphics
  • G06F 3/01 - Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer
  • G06F 3/04815 - Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
  • H04N 21/266 - Channel or content management, e.g. generation and management of keys and entitlement messages in a conditional access system or merging a VOD unicast channel into a multicast channel

33.

OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RECEPTION DEVICE, OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023024332
Publication Number 2024/057676
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-30
Publication Date 2024-03-21
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Ohhori Mayu

Abstract

[Problem] To provide a high-speed optical wireless communication system. [Solution] This optical wireless communication system (1000) comprises a transmission device (100) and a reception device (200). The transmission device comprises: a signal conversion unit (101) that converts communication data to an optical signal; and a light source (102) that emits near infrared light corresponding to the optical signal. The reception device comprises an optical detection unit (300) that receives the near infrared light. The optical detection unit comprises: an imaging optical system (301); an imaging element (303) including a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged opto-electric conversion units (311); and a filter (302) that limits the wavelength range of light incident upon the imaging element. The plurality of opto-electric conversion units each are an avalanche diode.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04B 10/11 - Arrangements specific to free-space transmission, i.e. transmission through air or vacuum
  • H04B 10/67 - Optical arrangements in the receiver

34.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023031665
Publication Number 2024/057936
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-31
Publication Date 2024-03-21
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Katsuragi Tetsuya

Abstract

This communication device (200) having a Sidelink communication function transmits a message that does not include any Layer-2 ID for determining a relay device having a function of relaying Sidelink communications and that is addressed to a Layer-2 ID different from the Layer-2 ID of said relay device, said message including, before the payload, information indicating a request for relaying the message.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 76/14 - Direct-mode setup
  • H04W 4/46 - Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P] for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]
  • H04W 8/00 - Network data management
  • H04W 16/26 - Cell enhancers, e.g. for tunnels or building shadow
  • H04W 92/18 - Interfaces between hierarchically similar devices between terminal devices

35.

VIBRATIONAL ACTUATOR CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME, DRIVING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

      
Application Number JP2023031669
Publication Number 2024/053531
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-31
Publication Date 2024-03-14
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Morita Hiromitsu
  • Atsuta Akio
  • Nagata Taiga

Abstract

Provided is a vibrational actuator control device, wherein, when a value (a first value) of a velocity difference, which is obtained by subtracting the current value from a command value at a relative velocity between a vibrator and a contact body of the vibrational actuator, is positive, a control unit performs a control (S208) which decreases the driving frequency of an AC signal or a control (S204) which increases the pulse width of the AC signal, and, when the value (the first value) of a velocity difference is not positive, performs a control (S212) of the driving frequency of the AC signal or a control (S211) of the pulse width of the AC signal, the control having been performed at a time before any of the times.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02N 2/14 - Drive circuits; Control arrangements

36.

RADIATION PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE, RADIATION PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE CHARGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023031670
Publication Number 2024/053532
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-31
Publication Date 2024-03-14
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yamazaki Takashi
  • Makishima Shigeru

Abstract

A radiation photographing device according to the present invention has: a battery mounting section on which an arbitrary type of battery selected from a plurality of types of batteries can be mounted and to which the battery can be detachably attached; an identification unit that identifies the type of battery mounted on the battery mounting section; and a charging unit that charges the battery mounted on the battery mounting section by means of a charging method according to the type of battery identified by the identification unit. Electric power is supplied to the radiation photographing device from the battery mounted on the battery mounting section.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61B 6/00 - Apparatus for radiation diagnosis, e.g. combined with radiation therapy equipment
  • G01T 7/00 - MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION - Details of radiation-measuring instruments
  • H01M 10/44 - Methods for charging or discharging
  • H01M 10/48 - Accumulators combined with arrangements for measuring, testing or indicating the condition of cells, e.g. the level or density of the electrolyte
  • H02J 7/02 - Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries for charging batteries from ac mains by converters

37.

RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME

      
Application Number JP2023028244
Publication Number 2024/053295
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-02
Publication Date 2024-03-14
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nishikawa, Yukinori
  • Ezumi, Yosuke
  • Ogushi, Takuhiro
  • Ueki, Hideyuki
  • Aida, Takahiro

Abstract

This recording device comprises: a control means; an output means that oscillates using delivered power supply and outputs at least one clock signal; at least one counting means that receives the at least one clock signal and counts time; and a power supply means that stops delivery of power supply to the control means and continues delivery of power supply to the output means and the at least one counting means in a standby state. The control means performs prescribed processing if, upon transition from the standby state to an operating state, a count value of the at least one counting means exceeds a prescribed value, and resets the count value of the at least one counting means when transitioning to the standby state.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
  • B41J 2/01 - Ink jet

38.

PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023030359
Publication Number 2024/053400
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-23
Publication Date 2024-03-14
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsuboi Toshiki
  • Morimoto Kazuhiro

Abstract

A photoelectric conversion device according to the present invention has a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, an acquisition unit that acquires microframes formed from a 1-bit signal on the basis of incident light at each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, and a synthesis unit that synthesizes a plurality of the microframes and thereby generates a subframe formed from a multi-bit signal. The plurality of photoconversion elements include a first photoconversion element and a second photoconversion element. During the acquisition period for one microframe, a first exposure period during which the 1-bit signal is generated on the basis of the incident light at the first photoelectric conversion element and a second exposure period during which the 1-bit signal is generated on the basis of the incident light at the second photoelectric conversion element are different.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 25/70 - SSIS architectures; Circuits associated therewith
  • H04N 25/10 - Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof for transforming different wavelengths into image signals
  • H04N 25/705 - Pixels for depth measurement, e.g. RGBZ
  • H04N 25/773 - Pixel circuitry, e.g. memories, A/D converters, pixel amplifiers, shared circuits or shared components comprising A/D, V/T, V/F, I/T or I/F converters comprising photon counting circuits, e.g. single photon detection [SPD] or single photon avalanche diodes [SPAD]

39.

IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

      
Application Number JP2023031637
Publication Number 2024/053522
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-30
Publication Date 2024-03-14
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Eguchi, Yosuke

Abstract

Disclosed is an image processing device that can appropriately reduce the data amount of a three-dimensional video by use of the corrections between frames. The image processing device comprises: an acquisition means for acquiring three-dimensional video data having three-dimensional data and texture information for each frame; and an encoding means for encoding the three-dimensional video data by use of interframe prediction. The encoding means individually interframe-prediction encodes the three-dimensional data and the texture information, and individually selects, on the basis of metadata of each frame, a key frame for interframe-prediction encoding the three-dimensional data and a key frame for encoding the texture information.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 19/597 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals using predictive coding specially adapted for multi-view video sequence encoding
  • H04N 19/114 - Adapting the group of pictures [GOP] structure, e.g. number of B-frames between two anchor frames
  • H04N 19/136 - Incoming video signal characteristics or properties
  • H04N 19/172 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals using adaptive coding characterised by the coding unit, i.e. the structural portion or semantic portion of the video signal being the object or the subject of the adaptive coding the unit being an image region, e.g. an object the region being a picture, frame or field

40.

SIDELINK COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SIDELINK COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

      
Application Number JP2023031663
Publication Number 2024/053528
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-31
Publication Date 2024-03-14
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Nishiyama Kosuke

Abstract

This sidelink communication device comprises: a receiving means (105) that receives detection signals that are transmitted from a plurality of communication devices (10A, 10B, 10C) and that allow those communication devices to be detected as sidelink devices; and a selecting means (101) that selects, from among the plurality of communication devices (10A, 10B, 10C) detected by receiving the detection signals, a target device that is to be connected as a relay device. The receiving means (105) receives, before the establishment of connection to the target device, the values of relay time parameters transmitted from the plurality of communication devices. The relay time parameters are related to the times for which respective ones of the plurality of communication devices can function as relay devices. The selecting means (101) selects the target device on the basis of the values of the relay time parameters related to the respective ones of the plurality of communication devices.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 8/00 - Network data management
  • H04W 92/18 - Interfaces between hierarchically similar devices between terminal devices
  • H04W 76/14 - Direct-mode setup
  • H04W 48/16 - Discovering; Processing access restriction or access information
  • H04W 88/04 - Terminal devices adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

41.

COMMUNICATION NODE DEVICE, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

      
Application Number JP2023031664
Publication Number 2024/053529
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-31
Publication Date 2024-03-14
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Aoyagi Mizuho

Abstract

The present invention discloses a communication node device that provides public network communication services, wherein the communication node device comprises a transmission means that, when a subordinate communication device is to be handed over to another communication node device, transmits linking information for linking the communication device to a host node to the communication device or the other communication node device, and the linking information is used when determining the next handover destination for the communication device that has been handed over to the other communication node device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 36/08 - Reselecting an access point
  • H04W 8/26 - Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
  • H04W 16/26 - Cell enhancers, e.g. for tunnels or building shadow

42.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD

      
Application Number JP2023031666
Publication Number 2024/053530
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-31
Publication Date 2024-03-14
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Onda Taiga

Abstract

A communication device (100) functions as a mobile IAB node of a mobile communication system, and comprises: an acquisition unit (101) that acquires environmental information related to the position of the device (100); a determination unit (101) that determines the necessity for transmission of notification information of the device (100) on the basis of the environmental information acquired by the acquisition unit (101); and a transmission unit (103) that transmits the notification information in accordance with the determination result by the determination unit (101).

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 48/10 - Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery using broadcasted information
  • H04W 4/48 - Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P] for in-vehicle communication
  • H04W 16/26 - Cell enhancers, e.g. for tunnels or building shadow
  • H04W 84/00 - Network topologies

43.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023020973
Publication Number 2024/047990
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-06
Publication Date 2024-03-07
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Tanaka, Shu

Abstract

An information processing device according to the present invention is characterized by comprising a first acquisition means that acquires line-of-sight information relating to a user, a detection means that detects an object that the user is looking at on the basis of the line-of-sight information, a second acquisition means that acquires, from a storage unit, reference information that is prescribed information corresponding to the object and is used for determining the degree of interest in the object by the user, and a determination means that determines the degree of interest on the basis of the line-of-sight information and the reference information.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/01 - Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer
  • G06T 7/00 - Image analysis

44.

OSCILLATION WAVE MOTOR AND DRIVE DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023029202
Publication Number 2024/048237
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-10
Publication Date 2024-03-07
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Shimada Akira

Abstract

Provided is an oscillation wave motor comprising a first elastic body 111, a second elastic body 112, a piezoelectric element (electro-mechanical energy conversion element) 113 sandwiched between the first elastic body 111 and the second elastic body 112, and a contact body that comes into pressing contact with the first elastic body 111, wherein the piezoelectric element 113 is configured such that the contour shape of a cross-section (XY plane) perpendicular to the pressing direction (Z direction) in the pressing contact between the first elastic body 111 and the contact body is rectangular, and such that the first elastic body 111 and vertices 1131-1134 of the rectangle in the piezoelectric element 113 do not come into contact with one another.

IPC Classes  ?

45.

IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, PHOTOGRAPHING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023030194
Publication Number 2024/048374
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-22
Publication Date 2024-03-07
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tomita Ritsuya
  • Sagano Osamu

Abstract

This image processing device comprises: an acquisition unit that acquires a radiation intensity image obtained by photographing a subject using radioactive rays, and a discriminated substance image which is obtained by photographing the subject by counting the number of photons in the radioactive rays and which shows a substance having been discriminated; and a display control unit that causes a display unit to display the radiation intensity image and the discriminated substance image in a manner so as to be side by side, to be switched one from the other, or to be superimposed on one another.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A61B 6/03 - Computerised tomographs
  • A61B 6/00 - Apparatus for radiation diagnosis, e.g. combined with radiation therapy equipment

46.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

      
Application Number JP2023019252
Publication Number 2024/047972
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-05-24
Publication Date 2024-03-07
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sugiyama, Kenji
  • Nogami, Atsushi

Abstract

This information processing device has: an acquisition means for acquiring detection information attached to an image; a determination means for determining a display method for the detection information acquired by the acquisition means; and a display means for displaying the detection information in a superimposed manner on the image, on the basis of the display method determined by the determination means.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06T 1/00 - General purpose image data processing
  • G06Q 50/08 - Construction
  • G01N 21/88 - Investigating the presence of flaws, defects or contamination

47.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023021017
Publication Number 2024/047993
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-06
Publication Date 2024-03-07
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Yamamoto, Jun

Abstract

An information processing device according to the present invention can be used together with an optical see-through type head-mounted display device, and is characterized by comprising: a first instruction means for instructing a user to perform a first instruction to move an operation body located at the position of user's hands forward; a first acquisition means for acquiring first information pertaining to a depth position of the operation body in a state in which the user has moved the operation body forward in response to the first instruction; and a determination means for determining, in accordance with the first information, a depth position of a GUI that is displayed on the head-mounted display device and that is operated by the operation body.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/01 - Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer
  • G06F 3/04815 - Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
  • G09G 5/00 - Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators
  • G09G 5/36 - Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the display of individual graphic patterns using a bit-mapped memory
  • G09G 5/38 - Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the display of individual graphic patterns using a bit-mapped memory with means for controlling the display position

48.

ELECTRIC POWER RECEPTION DEVICE, ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, WIRELESS ELECTRIC POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, WIRELESS ELECTRIC POWER TRANSFER METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023028744
Publication Number 2024/043057
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-07
Publication Date 2024-02-29
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Ikeda Nobuhiro

Abstract

In the present invention, an electric power reception device 200 in a wireless electric power transfer system, when setting a target electric power, transmits a request for a change in electric power transmission output to an electric power transmission device 100 (S1403). The request for a change in electric power transmission output includes differential information that indicates the current operating point and a target operating point of the electric power reception device 200. The electric power reception device 200 determines whether or not a request for change that includes differential information that exceeds a predetermined threshold value has been transmitted to the electric power transmission device 100 a predetermined number of times or more, or continuously for a predetermined time or longer (S1407, S1408). The electric power reception device 200 transmits a request for a change in electric power transmission control (control such as stopping or limiting electric power transmission) to the electric power transmission device 100 in accordance with the determined result.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02J 50/80 - Circuit arrangements or systems for wireless supply or distribution of electric power involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
  • H02J 7/00 - Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
  • H02J 50/12 - Circuit arrangements or systems for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling of the resonant type
  • H02J 50/60 - Circuit arrangements or systems for wireless supply or distribution of electric power responsive to the presence of foreign objects, e.g. detection of living beings

49.

IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023029203
Publication Number 2024/043109
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-10
Publication Date 2024-02-29
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Ono Yukino

Abstract

This image processing method includes: a step for acquiring a first latent variable on the basis of a first image; a step for acquiring a second latent variable different from the first latent variable on the basis of the first latent variable; a step for generating a second image by inputting the second latent variable into a first machine learning model; a step for acquiring a third latent variable different from the second latent variable on the basis of the second image; a step for acquiring a fourth latent variable different from the third latent variable on the basis of the third latent variable; and a step for generating a third image by inputting the fourth latent variable into the first machine learning model.

IPC Classes  ?

50.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRIVACY MANAGEMENT IN A WIRELESS NETWORK

      
Application Number EP2023072622
Publication Number 2024/041956
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-16
Publication Date 2024-02-29
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON EUROPE LIMITED (United Kingdom)
Inventor
  • Nezou, Patrice
  • Baron, Stéphane
  • Sevin, Julien

Abstract

The present invention concerns a method for managing a privacy level in a wireless network comprising an access point, AP, station and at least one non-AP station, the method comprising by a first station, either a non-AP station or the AP station: - sending to a second station a message comprising an information indicating a set of privacy enhancement, PE, parameters to be obfuscated, the set of PE parameters corresponding to a privacy level requested by the first station, the second station being the AP if the first station is a non-AP station, the second station being a non-AP station if the first station is the AP; and receiving from the second station a response indicating whether the second station accepts the requested privacy level.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 12/02 - Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]

51.

DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023025051
Publication Number 2024/042882
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-29
Publication Date 2024-02-29
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kojima Katsuhiro
  • Sasaki Hiraku
  • Kawata Kentaro
  • Matsuda Kohei

Abstract

For a developing device having no supply member for supplying a developing agent to a developing member, further simplification of the configuration is desired. A regulating blade 44 has a free end 44a and a fixed end 44b. The free end 44a abuts against a developing roller 42 in a state of being oriented to the downstream side of the rotation direction of the developing roller 42, whereby the thickness of a layer of a developing agent supported on the developing roller 42 is regulated to a prescribed thickness. In a coordinate system where an axis that passes through the rotation center of the developing roller 42 and that is oriented reverse to the gravity direction is defined as a Y axis, an axis that passes through the rotation center and that results from rotation of the Y axis by 90° clockwise is defined as an X axis, and the rotation direction of the developing roller 42 is counterclockwise, the free end 44a and the fixed end 44b are disposed in the second quadrant of the coordinate system.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 15/08 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer

52.

ELECTRONIC DEVICE, MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, AND ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023027057
Publication Number 2024/042960
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-24
Publication Date 2024-02-29
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Niwamae, Yuki
  • Takano, Seishiro
  • Yamamoto, Takahiro
  • Oshimoto, Nobuo
  • Tanimoto, Sakiko
  • Shinata, Satoshi
  • Sekine, Tetsuya
  • Kawashima, Shosaku
  • Matsuda, Megumi

Abstract

An electronic device according to the present disclosure comprises: a substrate; a detection unit that detects an operation by an operator with respect to the substrate; an acquisition unit that acquires positional information related to the operation on the substrate, on the basis of the output from the detection unit in response to the detection of the operation; and a control unit that controls the action of the electronic device on the basis of the positional information acquired by the acquisition unit, wherein the substrate is provided with an area where the control unit does not accept operations by the operator.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/0488 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
  • G06F 3/0354 - Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user; Accessories therefor with detection of 2D relative movements between the device, or an operating part thereof, and a plane or surface, e.g. 2D mice, trackballs, pens or pucks
  • G06F 3/041 - Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means

53.

ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT, AND DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, LIGHTING DEVICE, AND MOVING OBJECT HAVING SAID ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT

      
Application Number JP2023030005
Publication Number 2024/043210
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-21
Publication Date 2024-02-29
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Miyashita Hirokazu
  • Nagashima Hitoshi
  • Nishide Yosuke
  • Yamada Naoki
  • Otomo Yasunao

Abstract

The present disclosure provides an organic light-emitting element comprising a positive electrode, a first light-emitting layer, a second light-emitting layer, and a negative electrode in the stated order, the first light-emitting layer and the second light-emitting layer being in contact with each other, the first light-emitting layer including a first organic compound and a first metal complex, the second light-emitting layer including a second organic compound, a third organic compound, and a second metal complex, the third organic compound not being a metal complex, and the following relationships (a) to (c) holding true. (a) HOMO(D1)>HOMO(H1) (b) LUMO(H2)>LUMO(H3) (c) HOMO(D1)−HOMO(H1)>LUMO(H2)−LUMO(H3)

IPC Classes  ?

  • H10K 50/13 - OLEDs or polymer light-emitting diodes [PLED] characterised by the electroluminescent [EL] layers specially adapted for multicolour light emission, e.g. for emitting white light comprising stacked EL layers within one EL unit
  • C09K 11/06 - Luminescent, e.g. electroluminescent, chemiluminescent, materials containing organic luminescent materials
  • H10K 50/12 - OLEDs or polymer light-emitting diodes [PLED] characterised by the electroluminescent [EL] layers comprising dopants
  • H10K 59/10 - OLED displays
  • H10K 59/12 - Active-matrix OLED [AMOLED] displays
  • H10K 59/95 - Assemblies of multiple devices comprising at least one organic light-emitting element comprising only organic light-emitting elements
  • H10K 85/30 - Coordination compounds
  • H10K 85/60 - Organic compounds having low molecular weight
  • H10K 101/10 - Triplet emission
  • H10K 101/30 - Highest occupied molecular orbital [HOMO], lowest unoccupied molecular orbital [LUMO] or Fermi energy values
  • H10K 101/40 - Interrelation of parameters between multiple constituent active layers or sublayers, e.g. HOMO values in adjacent layers

54.

ANALYSIS METHOD

      
Application Number JP2023026495
Publication Number 2024/034344
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-20
Publication Date 2024-02-15
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kawaguchi Makoto
  • Yonetani Yuki
  • Ichihara Shigeru

Abstract

This analysis method includes: a step for acquiring first information pertaining to the optical density of a functional group on the basis of a first fluorescence spectrum measured by irradiating a prescribed region of a specimen with first light; a step for acquiring second information pertaining to the optical density of a functional group on the basis of a second fluorescence spectrum measured by irradiating at least a part of the prescribed region with second light, after the irradiation by the first light; and a step for acquiring third information pertaining to degradation of the specimen on the basis of the first information and the second information.

IPC Classes  ?

55.

MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING DEVICE FOR LIQUID CONTAINING FINE BUBBLES

      
Application Number JP2023027042
Publication Number 2024/034377
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-24
Publication Date 2024-02-15
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Aotani Takaharu
  • Nakazawa Ikuo

Abstract

One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a manufacturing method for a liquid containing fine bubbles, the method being characterized by comprising: a generating step for generating liquid drops containing fine bubbles by exposing a liquid to ultrasonic waves and atomizing the liquid; and a recovery step for recovering the liquid drops in a recovery vessel using a recovery mechanism that houses the recovery vessel.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B01F 23/2373 - Mixing gases with liquids by introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids characterised by the physical or chemical properties of gases or vapours introduced in the liquid media for obtaining fine bubbles, i.e. bubbles with a size below 100 µm
  • B01F 31/85 - Mixing by means of high-frequency vibrations above one kHz, e.g. ultrasonic vibrations with a vibrating element inside the receptacle
  • B01F 31/87 - Mixing by means of high-frequency vibrations above one kHz, e.g. ultrasonic vibrations transmitting the vibratory energy by means of a fluid, e.g. by means of air shock waves
  • B01F 35/214 - Measuring characterised by the means for measuring
  • B01F 35/221 - Control or regulation of operational parameters, e.g. level of material in the mixer, temperature or pressure
  • B01F 35/51 - Mixing receptacles characterised by their material
  • B01F 35/75 - Discharge mechanisms

56.

CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, LENS DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023023903
Publication Number 2024/034281
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-28
Publication Date 2024-02-15
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Matsumoto Toru
  • Kato Yuichiro
  • Mizushima Masayasu
  • Nagano Toshimune
  • Moriyoshi Akino

Abstract

[Problem] To provide a control device that can improve convenience in tilt imaging. [Solution] A control device (9, 15) is for use in a camera system (1) having: an imaging device (3) provided with an imaging element (1106); and a lens device (2) provided with an optical system including at least one optical member for tilting a focal plane (501) with respect to an imaging plane of the imaging element. The control device has: an acquisition unit that acquires first position information (1501) and second position information (1502) on the basis of an instruction of a user; and a determination unit that determines third position information (1503) not instructed by the user and constructs the focal plane from the first position information, the second position information, and the third position information.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03B 5/06 - Swinging lens about normal to the optical axis
  • G03B 15/00 - Special procedures for taking photographs; Apparatus therefor
  • G02B 7/04 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification
  • H04N 23/66 - Remote control of cameras or camera parts, e.g. by remote control devices
  • H04N 23/67 - Focus control based on electronic image sensor signals

57.

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT

      
Application Number JP2023026493
Publication Number 2024/034343
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-20
Publication Date 2024-02-15
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Miyashita Hirokazu
  • Nagashima Hitoshi
  • Nishide Yosuke
  • Yamada Naoki

Abstract

The present invention provides an organic light emitting element wherein: good carrier movement and good triplet energy transfer between light emitting layers stacked upon each other are achieved; and driving durability is improved. With respect to this organic light emitting element, a light emitting layer comprises a first light emitting layer 4a and a second light emitting layer 4b, which are in contact with each other; the first light emitting layer 4a contains a first organic compound, a first metal complex and a second metal complex; the second light emitting layer 4b contains a second organic compound and a third metal complex but does not contain the first metal complex; and if T1D1, T1D2 and T1D3 are respectively the triplet energy of the first metal complex, the triplet energy of the second metal complex and the triplet energy of the third metal complex, the relational expressions (a) to (c) are satisfied. (a): T1D2 > T1D1 (b): T1D3 ≥ T1D2 (c): T1D2 - T1D1 > T1D3 - T1D2

IPC Classes  ?

  • H10K 50/13 - OLEDs or polymer light-emitting diodes [PLED] characterised by the electroluminescent [EL] layers specially adapted for multicolour light emission, e.g. for emitting white light comprising stacked EL layers within one EL unit
  • C09K 11/06 - Luminescent, e.g. electroluminescent, chemiluminescent, materials containing organic luminescent materials
  • F21S 2/00 - Systems of lighting devices, not provided for in main groups  or , e.g. of modular construction
  • F21S 43/145 - Surface emitters, e.g. organic light emitting diodes [OLED]
  • G09F 9/30 - Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements
  • H10K 50/12 - OLEDs or polymer light-emitting diodes [PLED] characterised by the electroluminescent [EL] layers comprising dopants
  • H10K 59/12 - Active-matrix OLED [AMOLED] displays
  • H10K 59/30 - Devices specially adapted for multicolour light emission
  • H10K 59/95 - Assemblies of multiple devices comprising at least one organic light-emitting element comprising only organic light-emitting elements
  • H10K 85/30 - Coordination compounds
  • F21W 103/00 - Exterior vehicle lighting devices for signalling purposes
  • F21Y 115/15 - Organic light-emitting diodes [OLED]
  • H10K 101/10 - Triplet emission
  • H10K 101/30 - Highest occupied molecular orbital [HOMO], lowest unoccupied molecular orbital [LUMO] or Fermi energy values
  • H10K 101/40 - Interrelation of parameters between multiple constituent active layers or sublayers, e.g. HOMO values in adjacent layers

58.

IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM

      
Application Number JP2023023284
Publication Number 2024/029224
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-23
Publication Date 2024-02-08
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Hiasa Norihito

Abstract

[Problem] To suppress task accuracy degradation due to luminance saturation in a recognition or regression task that uses machine learning on captured images in which a blur has occurred. [Solution] This image processing method comprises: a step (S202) for acquiring a first map generated by inputting a captured image into a first machine learning model; and a step (S203) for generating a second map by modifying the first map on the basis of information relating to the position of a luminance-saturated area of the captured image. The first map is information that indicates the region of the luminance-saturated area where a subject image has expanded due to a blur occurring in the image capture, and the signal value in that region.

IPC Classes  ?

59.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023026487
Publication Number 2024/029339
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-20
Publication Date 2024-02-08
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Soma Tomoyasu

Abstract

When a UHR MU PPDU of which the bandwidth is greater than 320 Mhz is transmitted, this communication device transmits, following a U-SIG, the UHR MU PPDU including an RU Allocation-1 subfield, an RU Allocation-2 subfield, and an RU Allocation-3 subfield. In addition, when an UHR MU PPDU of which the bandwidth is 320 Mhz is transmitted, the communication device transmits, following a U-SIG, a UHR MU PPDU including the RU Allocation-1 subfield and RU Allocation-2 subfield, but not including the RU Allocation-3.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 28/06 - Optimising, e.g. header compression, information sizing
  • H04W 72/51 - Allocation or scheduling criteria for wireless resources based on terminal or device properties
  • H04W 84/12 - WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

60.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023026489
Publication Number 2024/029340
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-20
Publication Date 2024-02-08
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Takada Tomoyuki

Abstract

The present invention has a transmission means that transmits a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) in the millimeter wave band, the PPDU including: a training field containing a signal for synchronizing reception timing in the millimeter wave band; a channel estimation field containing a signal for channel estimation in the millimeter wave band; a channel bandwidth field containing channel bandwidth information; and a channel bandwidth data field indicated by the channel bandwidth information included in the channel bandwidth field, and the channel bandwidth field indicating a channel bandwidth of less than 2.16 GHz as the channel bandwidth information.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 72/0453 - Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
  • H04W 28/06 - Optimising, e.g. header compression, information sizing
  • H04W 84/12 - WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

61.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023026490
Publication Number 2024/029341
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-20
Publication Date 2024-02-08
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Yoshikawa Yuki

Abstract

In the present invention, if a communication device establishes a link by way of a millimeter waveband frequency channel, the communication device: executes processing for selecting an antenna for communicating with an other communication device; and includes the information acquired through the executed processing in a request frame and transmits the same to the other communication device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 76/15 - Setup of multiple wireless link connections
  • H04L 27/26 - Systems using multi-frequency codes
  • H04W 16/28 - Cell structures using beam steering
  • H04W 84/12 - WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

62.

MULTI-LINK P2P COMMUNICATION METHOD WITH TID-TO-LINK MAPPING DEDICATED TO P2P LINKS

      
Application Number EP2023071338
Publication Number 2024/028353
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-01
Publication Date 2024-02-08
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON EUROPE LIMITED (United Kingdom)
Inventor
  • Nezou, Patrice
  • Baron, Stéphane

Abstract

To optimize latency and throughputs in 802.11 network implementing multi-link P2P communication sessions on multiple P2P links, a P2P TID-To-Link mapping specific to the multiple P2P links and defining a mapping of TIDs to the multiple P2P links is negotiated between the two peer non-AP MLDs of the session. The P2P TID-To-Link map is carried in a TID-to-Link Mapping information element, IE, according to the IEEE 802.11be/D2.0 standard that is included in exchanged TDLS Action frames, e.g. when establishing multiple single-link TDLS direct links. The MLDs check whether a proposed P2P TID-To-Link mapping received from the peer MLD matches its own TID-To-Link mapping with an AP MLD. Once the P2P TID-To-Link mapping is agreed on, the peer MLDs directly communicate through the multiple P2P links based on the negotiated TID-to-Link mapping.

IPC Classes  ?

63.

MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023022867
Publication Number 2024/029222
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-21
Publication Date 2024-02-08
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Horio, Daisuke

Abstract

In the present invention, an IAB node, prior to handing over a connection destination for communication with a core network to another IAB donor or node, executes, for each UE to which the IAB node is connected, a determination process for determining, on the basis of whether or not a condition is satisfied, whether the UE is to be switched to the connection destination together with the IAB node. The IAB node also performs communication control for the purpose of a handover for switching the connection destination from the IAB node to another wireless base station, for a UE for which it was determined by the determination process that the UE is not to be switched to the connection destination together with the IAB.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 36/24 - Reselection being triggered by specific parameters
  • H04W 4/42 - Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P] for mass transport vehicles, e.g. buses, trains or aircraft
  • H04W 36/16 - Performing reselection for specific purposes
  • H04W 84/00 - Network topologies

64.

CONFIGURING A UE FOR MULTICAST RECEPTION

      
Application Number EP2023068979
Publication Number 2024/028043
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-10
Publication Date 2024-02-08
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON EUROPE LIMITED (United Kingdom)
Inventor
  • El Kolli, Yacine
  • Visa, Pierre
  • Sahyoun, Walaa

Abstract

A method at a base station controlling a cell comprises receiving MBS session information for a User Equipment, UE, as part of cell reselection from a serving cell to the cell, with the UE operating in a non-connected RRC state. The MBS session information identifies one or more multicast sessions the UE has joined. The method further comprises in response to receiving notification that one of the one or more multicast sessions has been activated, sending, to the UE, a MBS configuration message including configuration information for configuring the UE for reception of multicast data corresponding to the one activated multicast session. The method may be used to configure a UE for multicast reception.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 4/06 - Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
  • H04W 76/27 - Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states
  • H04W 76/40 - Connection management for selective distribution or broadcast

65.

CARTRIDGE

      
Application Number JP2023025050
Publication Number 2024/024439
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-29
Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hiramatsu Takashi
  • Baba Daisuke
  • Tanaka Masatake

Abstract

The present invention provides progress to conventional process cartridges. The present invention has: a rotatable development roller; a development frame that rotatably supports the development roller; a toner that has toner particles and an external additive; a toner container that contains the toner; a supply roller that is brought into contact with the surface of the development roller to supply the toner to the surface of the development roller; a regulation blade that is brought into contact with the surface of the development roller to regulate the thickness of a layer of the toner carried by the surface of the development roller; and electrical connection points that are electrically connected to the supply roller and the regulation blade, and can receive external power. The toner has hydrotalcite particles as the external additive. In line analysis in STEM-EDS mapping analysis of the toner, fluorine is present inside the hydrotalcite particles.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 9/097 - Plasticisers; Charge controlling agents
  • G03G 15/08 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer
  • G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements

66.

CONTAINER, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CONTAINER, AND TONER CONTAINER

      
Application Number JP2023026486
Publication Number 2024/024600
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-20
Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ishikawa Hideki
  • Suzuki Akira
  • Kuboyama Shunsuke

Abstract

This container comprises a mouth part, a barrel part continuous with the mouth part, and a bottom part provided on the side opposite to the mouth part with the barrel part therebetween, at least the inner surface of the barrel part having a protruding/recessed structure exhibiting the Lotus effect, the container being characterized in that: when the direction passing through the mouth part and the bottom part is defined as the height direction, the width in a direction intersecting the height direction of a protrusion of the protruding/recessed structure at a given position in the height direction is greater than the width in the direction intersecting the height direction of a protrusion of the protruding/recessed structure positioned closer to the bottom part side than the given position in the height direction; or the width in the direction intersecting the height direction of a recess of the protruding/recessed structure at a given position in the height direction is less than the width in the direction intersecting the height direction of a recess of the protruding/recessed structure positioned closer to the bottom part side than the given position in the height direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B29B 11/08 - Injection moulding
  • B29C 45/17 - Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
  • B29C 45/37 - Mould cavity walls
  • B29C 49/06 - Injection blow-moulding
  • B29C 49/30 - Blow-moulding apparatus having movable moulds or mould parts
  • B65D 1/02 - Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents

67.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023026492
Publication Number 2024/024601
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-20
Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Takada Tomoyuki

Abstract

According to the present invention, when transmitting a PPDU with a bandwidth of 480 MHz, the PPDU in which the 5880 data subcarriers and the 96 pilot subcarriers are configured in a certain order is transmitted.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04L 27/26 - Systems using multi-frequency codes

68.

MBS MULTICAST CONFIGURATION

      
Application Number EP2023069960
Publication Number 2024/022904
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-18
Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON EUROPE LIMITED (United Kingdom)
Inventor
  • Sahyoun, Walaa
  • El Kolli, Yacine
  • Visa, Pierre

Abstract

Methods and apparatus relating to providing MBS multicast data reception configuration parameters to a UE (User Equipment). A User Equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system, receives, for a multicast (MBS) session for which the UE has requested to join, multicast pre-configuration information for the multicast session, wherein the multicast pre-configuration information may be received prior to activation of the multicast session and/or after activation of the multicast session. The UE is configured according to the multicast (pre-)configuration information to receive multicast data via the multicast session. At a base station controlling a cell serving User Equipment (UE) establishment of a multicast session requested by a UE is performed.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 4/06 - Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
  • H04W 72/30 - Resource management for broadcast services
  • H04W 76/27 - Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states

69.

OFF-CHANNEL TDLS COMMUNICATION FOR MULTI-LINK DEVICES

      
Application Number EP2023069985
Publication Number 2024/022908
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-19
Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON EUROPE LIMITED (United Kingdom)
Inventor
  • Guignard, Romain
  • Viger, Pascal

Abstract

A non-AP MLD (120) obtains a link ID, which defines an off-link corresponding to at least one off-channel (172b) that does not overlap the channel(s) used by the AP device. The non-AP MLD (120) establishes, through the channel(s) used by the AP device, a TDLS direct link, between a first TDLS STA, (122) affiliated with the non-AP MLD (120) and a second TDLS STA (132) of a second non-AP MLD (130), using the link ID as an indication of the off-link for the TDLS direct link. The non-AP MLD (120) operates a peer-to-peer communication between the first and second TDLS STAs, over the off-link.

IPC Classes  ?

70.

P2P COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM WITH MULTI-LINK TDLS DIRECT LINK

      
Application Number EP2023070496
Publication Number 2024/023041
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-25
Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON EUROPE LIMITED (United Kingdom)
Inventor
  • Viger, Pascal
  • Guignard, Romain

Abstract

Single link TDLS direct link according to IEEE 802.11be/D2.0 does not benefit from the multiple link features to improve aggregation, common block acknowledgement and retransmission through plural links. The invention provides multi-link TDLS direct link by augmenting TDLS Action frames exchanged during TDLS direct link establishment. The augmented frames signal plural TDLS links from amongst multiple setup communication links of the emitting non-AP MLD. Those links are intended links on which to establish the TDLS direct link. The other peer non-AP MLD can, through the frame exchange, negotiate another set of links. In embodiments, an augmented TDLS Multi-Link IE embeds Per-TDLS STA Profiles, each of which signals a specific TDLS link. A Profile conveys a Link ID and a MAC address of the corresponding affiliated STA of the transmitting non-AP MLD. The non-AP MLDs therefore share their affiliated STAs' MAC addresses, hence simplifying the signaling in the P2P data frames.

IPC Classes  ?

71.

LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND MOBILE BODY

      
Application Number JP2023019664
Publication Number 2024/018756
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-05-26
Publication Date 2024-01-25
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Takahashi, Tetsuo
  • Ishizuya, Koji
  • Ito, Takayuki
  • Matsuda, Yojiro
  • Gommori, Eisuke
  • Hinata, Shoma
  • Okita, Akira

Abstract

This light-emitting device comprises: an insulating layer disposed on a main surface of a substrate; a plurality of lower electrodes disposed on the insulating layer; an organic layer disposed so as to cover the plurality of lower electrodes; an upper electrode disposed so as to cover the organic layer; and a supply electrode that supplies an electrical potential to the upper electrode. The organic layer includes a plurality of functional layers each including a light-emitting layer, and a charge generating layer disposed between the plurality of functional layers. The upper electrode includes a contact part contacting the supply electrode. In an orthogonal projection on the main surface, the insulating layer comprises a groove between each of the plurality of lower electrodes and the contact part. The thickness of the charge generating layer in the groove is less than the thickness of the charge generating layer on the plurality of lower electrodes.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H10K 50/19 - Tandem OLEDs
  • G09F 9/30 - Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements
  • H10K 50/814 - Anodes combined with auxiliary electrodes, e.g. ITO layer combined with metal lines
  • H10K 50/822 - Cathodes characterised by their shape
  • H10K 50/824 - Cathodes combined with auxiliary electrodes
  • H10K 50/84 - Passivation; Containers; Encapsulations
  • H10K 59/121 - Active-matrix OLED [AMOLED] displays characterised by the geometry or disposition of pixel elements
  • H10K 59/122 - Pixel-defining structures or layers, e.g. banks
  • H10K 59/131 - Interconnections, e.g. wiring lines or terminals
  • H10K 59/95 - Assemblies of multiple devices comprising at least one organic light-emitting element comprising only organic light-emitting elements

72.

PCI COLLISION AVOIDANCE IN 5G MOBILE IAB

      
Application Number EP2023067743
Publication Number 2024/017590
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-28
Publication Date 2024-01-25
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON EUROPE LIMITED (United Kingdom)
Inventor
  • Visa, Pierre
  • Lagrange, Pascal

Abstract

A Physical Cell Identity, PCI, conflict avoidance method in a wireless network comprising a first base station controlling a first cell having a first PCI, the method comprising: determining a conflict between the first PCI and a PCI of another cell in the vicinity of the first cell; and activating a second cell having a second PCI, wherein the second PCI is different to the first PCI.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04B 42/02 -
  • H04W 36/12 - Reselecting a serving backbone network switching or routing node
  • H04W 84/04 - Large scale networks; Deep hierarchical networks

73.

MANAGING MIGRATION INVOLVING A MOBILE INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL NODE

      
Application Number EP2023069959
Publication Number 2024/017909
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-18
Publication Date 2024-01-25
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON EUROPE LIMITED (United Kingdom)
Inventor
  • Visa, Pierre
  • Lagrange, Pascal

Abstract

There is provided a method for use in a process for requesting resources by a source Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) topology from a target IAB topology of a communication system, each of the source IAB topology and the target IAB topology comprising a set of IAB nodes and a donor Central Unit (CU), the method at the source donor-CU of the source IAB topology comprising: transmitting a message to the target donor-CU relating to the request of the resources associated with an IAB-node of the source IAB topology; wherein the message comprises an indication identifying the IAB-node of the source IAB topology as a mobile IAB-node. A corresponding method at the target donor, and devices are also disclosed.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 36/00 - Handoff or reselecting arrangements
  • H04W 84/00 - Network topologies
  • H04W 24/02 - Arrangements for optimising operational condition
  • H04W 88/08 - Access point devices
  • H04W 92/20 - Interfaces between hierarchically similar devices between access points

74.

DICING METHOD AND RECORDING ELEMENT MANUFACTURING METHOD

      
Application Number JP2023021053
Publication Number 2024/018769
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-06
Publication Date 2024-01-25
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yasukawa, Tetsuro
  • Shibata, Takeshi

Abstract

This dicing method of a bonded wafer in which a first board and a second board are bonded together, a space being formed between the first board and the second board, and a terminal for electrically connecting to an exterior being formed in the space, comprises: a pasting step in which a tape is pasted onto the first board; an irradiation step in which a laser is irradiated onto a portion of the first board which coincides with the space when viewed in the direction orthogonal to the first board; an irradiation step in which a laser is irradiated onto a portion of the second board which coincides with the space when viewed in the direction orthogonal to the first board; and a division step in which the wafer is divided into a plurality of pieces with the laser-irradiated positions in the irradiation steps as starting points by expanding the tape.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H01L 21/301 - Treatment of semiconductor bodies using processes or apparatus not provided for in groups to subdivide a semiconductor body into separate parts, e.g. making partitions
  • B41J 2/16 - Production of nozzles

75.

IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023025213
Publication Number 2024/018919
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-07
Publication Date 2024-01-25
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Kanamoto Yoshiji

Abstract

The present invention has: a reception means that receives a first trigger frame while a first mode is enabled, the first trigger frame including information relating to an IEEE802.11-standard-compliant OFDMA from an external access point that is external to an image formation device; a communication means that executes a communication process in the first mode by using the IEEE802.11-standard-compliant OFDMA, on the basis of information relating to the first trigger frame; and a control means that controls the image formation device, on the basis of a second mode having been enabled, so that the IEEE802.11-standard-compliant OFDMA is not executed in wireless communication in the second mode even when the IEEE802.11-standard-compliant OFDMA remains enabled in the first mode.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 76/14 - Direct-mode setup
  • H04W 84/12 - WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
  • H04W 92/18 - Interfaces between hierarchically similar devices between terminal devices

76.

VIBRATION MOTOR, DRIVE DEVICE, LENS DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, AND FRICTION MEMBER MANUFACTURING METHOD

      
Application Number JP2023018936
Publication Number 2024/014133
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-05-22
Publication Date 2024-01-18
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Ishikawa Tomonori

Abstract

[Problem] To provide a vibration motor that can be reduced in variation of a natural vibration frequency due to processing. [Solution] A vibration motor (110) has a vibrating body (103) and a friction member (102) with which the vibrating body is made friction contact. The vibrating body and the friction member can relatively move in a linear manner. The friction member has a first surface facing the vibrating body and a second surface on the opposite side to the vibrating body. The first surface has a contact surface that makes contact with the vibrating body and a non-contact surface that does not make contact with the vibrating body. The second surface is formed with an uneven shape. When a direction in which the vibrating body and the friction member relatively move is defined as a first direction, a direction in which the vibrating body and the friction member touch each other as a second direction, and a direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction as a third direction, the friction member is configured so that the contact surface is higher in the second direction than the non-contact surface and the width of the contact surface is shorter in the third direction than the maximum width of the friction member.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02N 2/04 - Constructional details
  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses

77.

METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR OPTIMIZING DYNAMIC ENCAPSULATION AND PARSING OF CONTENT DATA

      
Application Number EP2023068231
Publication Number 2024/012915
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-03
Publication Date 2024-01-18
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON EUROPE LIMITED (United Kingdom)
Inventor
  • Denoual, Franck
  • Ouedraogo, Naël
  • Maze, Frédéric
  • Le Feuvre, Jean

Abstract

At least one embodiment of a method for encapsulating media data of several presentations in a media file. After having obtained a portion of media data of a first presentation, the first portion, the first presentation consisting of a first set of tracks, first metadata describing tracks of the first set of tracks are encapsulated and the first portion is encapsulated into one or more first media fragments. After obtaining a portion of media data of a second presentation, the second portion, the second presentation consisting of a second set of tracks, second metadata describing tracks of the second set of tracks are encapsulated into one or more second media fragments following the first media fragments and the second portion is encapsulated into the one or more second media fragments. The second metadata include an indication to signal that the second set of tracks does not comprise at least one track as described in the encapsulated first metadata.

IPC Classes  ?

78.

POSITION CONTROL DEVICE, AERIAL VEHICLE, AND POSITION CONTROL METHOD

      
Application Number JP2023018962
Publication Number 2024/014135
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-05-22
Publication Date 2024-01-18
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Shindo Hirotaka

Abstract

[Problem] To rapidly return an aerial vehicle to normal after a sudden change in position thereof due to a disturbance. [Solution] This position control device is provided to an aerial vehicle 30 that produces thrust corresponding to a control quantity. The position control device has: a movable unit 330 that can move relative to a body 300 of the aerial vehicle; a drive means 130 that causes the movable unit to move; and control means 110, 150, 160 that, when the position of the body has changed, output a control quantity for returning the position to normal, and control the drive means so as to cause the movable unit 330 to move in the direction of returning the position to normal.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G05D 1/08 - Control of attitude, i.e. control of roll, pitch, or yaw
  • B64D 27/24 - Aircraft characterised by the type or position of power plant using steam, electricity, or spring force
  • B64U 10/10 - Rotorcrafts

79.

OPTICAL DEVICE, IN-VEHICLE SYSTEM, AND MOVING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023019296
Publication Number 2024/014138
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-05-24
Publication Date 2024-01-18
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hanasaka Takashi
  • Fukuda Koichi
  • Wakashima Shunichi
  • Okamoto Kohei

Abstract

[Problem] To provide an optical device having a small size and high resolution. [Solution] An optical device (1) comprises: a light-emitting unit (111) including at least one light-emitting element (211); a light-receiving unit (121) including a plurality of light-receiving elements (125); an optical element (112) including a plurality of micro lenses (231); an optical system including a first telecentric lens (131); and acquisition units (122, 123) that acquire distance information to an object on the basis of the time required from when the light-emitting unit emits light until when the light-receiving unit receives the light reflected by the object. The number of the plurality of micro lenses is greater than the number of the light-emitting elements, and an afocal system is constituted by the plurality of micro lenses and the first telecentric lens.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01S 7/481 - Constructional features, e.g. arrangements of optical elements
  • G01C 3/06 - Use of electric means to obtain final indication
  • G01S 17/10 - Systems determining position data of a target for measuring distance only using transmission of interrupted, pulse-modulated waves
  • G01S 17/931 - Lidar systems, specially adapted for specific applications for anti-collision purposes of land vehicles

80.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023023253
Publication Number 2024/014256
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-23
Publication Date 2024-01-18
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ina Eigoro
  • Hirayama Arisa

Abstract

This communication device communicates a physical (PHY) frame having a preamble and a data field, the PHY frame being compliant with the IEEE 802.11 HR (high reliability) standard. The preamble includes a L-STF, a L-LTF, a L-SIG, a RL-SIG, a U-SIG, a HR-SIG, a HR-STF, and a HR-LTF, the U-SIG including four or more subfields indicating that the communication device communicates in a frequency band exceeding 320 MHz.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 28/06 - Optimising, e.g. header compression, information sizing
  • H04W 84/12 - WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

81.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023023255
Publication Number 2024/014257
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-23
Publication Date 2024-01-18
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Yamamoto Tetsuya

Abstract

This communication device is capable of sidelink communication, and comprises: a detection means for detecting at least one other communication device that can be a synchronization source and is capable of sidelink communication; an acquisition means for acquiring predetermined information from each of the at least one other communication device detected by the detection means; and a first setting means for, when a predetermined operation setting is made as a priority order for synchronization, and when on the basis of the predetermined information acquired by the acquisition means, it is determined that among the at least one other communication device, there is some other communication device that has been able to acquire information indicating that this communication device is a predetermined type of communication device to take a role as the synchronization source, setting, as a time synchronization source, the other communication device that has been able to acquire the information.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 56/00 - Synchronisation arrangements
  • H04W 76/14 - Direct-mode setup
  • H04W 92/18 - Interfaces between hierarchically similar devices between terminal devices

82.

VIBRATION ACTUATOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023023256
Publication Number 2024/014258
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-23
Publication Date 2024-01-18
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Takahashi Yu
  • Kimura Atsushi
  • Udagawa Masaaki
  • Nishino Makoto

Abstract

This vibration actuator that solves a problem comprises a vibrator having an electro-mechanical energy conversion element and an elastic body and a contact body that makes contact with the elastic body, wherein the contact body and the vibrator relatively move in a first direction by the vibration of the vibrator. The elastic body has: a rectangular plate portion along the first direction; a projection portion that projects in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; and an extension portion that extends in a direction along the first direction from the plate portion. The elastic body further comprises a support member that touches at least either the extension portion or the plate portion and supports the vibrator along the second direction in a movable manner. The vibration actuator is characterized in that a part of the elastic body is further provided with a touch surface that touches the support member along the second direction and a tilt surface that is adjacent to the touch surface and tilts with respect to the touch surface in a direction away from the support member.

IPC Classes  ?

83.

SYSTEM FOR SUPPLYING CARBON DIOXIDE TO PLANTS

      
Application Number JP2023025212
Publication Number 2024/014403
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-07
Publication Date 2024-01-18
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Suzuki Norihiro
  • Sakakibara Teigo
  • Aotani Takaharu

Abstract

The present invention provides a system for supplying carbon dioxide to plants, with which carbon dioxide is supplied to plants while taking environmental load into consideration. The system for supplying carbon dioxide to plants according to the present invention is characterized by having a storage section that is constituted of a partition wall separating outside air and an internal space, that stores a solution in which carbon dioxide is dissolved in the internal space, and that retains gas in a first space that is not filled with the solution; a supply path that allows communication between the first space and a second space in which plants are arranged; and a heating unit that heats the solution in the storage section using energy based on sunlight, carbon dioxide released from the solution into the first space by the heating being supplied from the supply path to the second space.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A01G 9/18 - Greenhouses for treating plants with carbon dioxide or the like

84.

METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR EXTRAPOLATION REGIONS IN REGION TRACKS

      
Application Number EP2023068943
Publication Number 2024/013036
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-07
Publication Date 2024-01-18
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON EUROPE LIMITED (United Kingdom)
Inventor
  • Ruellan, Hervé
  • Denoual, Franck
  • Maze, Frédéric
  • Ouedraogo, Naël

Abstract

The invention proposes a method of encapsulating video data in a media file, the video data comprising video samples, at least one region being identified on several samples, the method comprising: generating a video track comprising successive video samples; generating a region track comprising region track samples for describing regions identified in video samples; wherein for describing a region, the method comprises: providing in a region track sample, synchronized with a video sample where the region is present, a geometry of the region in the video sample where the region is present; providing in a region track sample information on the movement of the region, and an indication indicating that the region is extrapolated, or an ending geometry and an indication that the region is interpolated.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/858 - Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object or by creating a hotspot
  • H04N 21/4725 - End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification or for manipulating displayed content for requesting additional data associated with the content using interactive regions of the image, e.g. hot spots
  • H04N 21/854 - Content authoring

85.

CONFIGURING A UE FOR MULTICAST RECEPTION

      
Application Number EP2023068978
Publication Number 2024/013055
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-10
Publication Date 2024-01-18
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON EUROPE LIMITED (United Kingdom)
Inventor
  • El Kolli, Yacine
  • Visa, Pierre
  • Sahyoun, Walaa

Abstract

A method for configuring a User Equipment, UE, of a wireless communication system for multicast reception, where the UE has previously joined a multicast session, is disclosed. The method at the UE operating in a non-connected Radio Resource Control, RRC, state (such as a RRC_INACTIVE state) comprises: receiving a notification indicating the multicast session has been activated; sending a MBS configuration request message for requesting configuration information for the reception of multicast data; receiving a MBS configuration message including configuration information for configuring the UE for reception of multicast data. A method at the base station is also disclosed.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 4/06 - Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
  • H04W 76/27 - Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states
  • H04W 76/40 - Connection management for selective distribution or broadcast

86.

MANAGING NETWORK CONNECTIVITY IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

      
Application Number EP2023069004
Publication Number 2024/013071
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-10
Publication Date 2024-01-18
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON EUROPE LIMITED (United Kingdom)
Inventor
  • Lagrange, Pascal
  • Visa, Pierre

Abstract

A method for use in managing network connectivity in a wireless communication system including at least one mobile Integrated Access and Backhaul, (mIAB), node is disclosed. The method at a mIAB node comprises providing, to a wireless communication device, a mobility message, wherein the mobility message includes at least one of: mobility profile information indicating the mobility capability of the mIAB node; guaranteed static time information indicating a minimum time period for which the mIAB node remains at a certain location. The mobility profile information may include at least one of: speed information indicating a speed capability of the mIAB node, range information indicating a mobility area of the mIAB node, static information indicating a duration of one or more static periods the mIAB node may experience, itinerary information indicating a sequence of mobility and static periods for an itinerary the mIAB node may follow.

IPC Classes  ?

87.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023023245
Publication Number 2024/009797
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-23
Publication Date 2024-01-11
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Tsujimaru Yuki

Abstract

The present invention provides a communication device that acquires, as training data for generating a trained model, some or all of the following information: channel matrix information, throughput information, CQI information, information about latency at the time of communication, information about the packet loss rate at the time of communication, information about the locations of other communication devices, the number of the other communication devices that establish a connection with the communication device, the radio wave strength received from the other communication devices that establish a connection with the communication device, the radio wave conditions of a nearby AP indicated by the other communication devices to which the communication device connects, surrounding communication conditions indicated by the other communication devices to which the communication device connects, frequency bands and channels supported by the other communication devices to which the communication device connects, capability information about a nearby AP, the bandwidth at the time of communication, the MCS representing the modulation scheme, and any of the above information after a unit of time; uses the training data to calculate information related to user selection in MU-MIMO communication; and executes MU-MIMO communication with the other communication devices on the basis of the information related to user selection.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 16/28 - Cell structures using beam steering
  • H04W 28/18 - Negotiating wireless communication parameters
  • H04W 84/12 - WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

88.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023023247
Publication Number 2024/009798
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-23
Publication Date 2024-01-11
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Ouchi Masatomo

Abstract

The present invention: acquires, as input data for inference, all or a portion of the information for time series data for information per unit time for any of application attribute, number of STA to which an AP connects, channel usage rate, retransmission count/collision count, throughput, access delay, jitter, fairness, QoS, and TSPEC (Traffic Specification); calculates a channel access parameter; and notifies another communication device of the calculation results.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 48/08 - Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery
  • H04W 48/16 - Discovering; Processing access restriction or access information
  • H04W 84/12 - WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

89.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023023250
Publication Number 2024/009800
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-23
Publication Date 2024-01-11
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Nakagawa Toshiyuki

Abstract

The present invention provides a communication device that acquires, as input data for estimation, some or all of the following information: information on radio channel quality, information indicating the load status of a plurality of access points, traffic characteristics information, and time series data for any of the above information in a unit of time; and calculates information indicating whether to perform traffic steering or not, and if so, how steering is to be performed. If, as a result of the calculation, it is determined that traffic steering is necessary for a STA to which the communication device itself connects, the communication device issues a notification of information pertaining to the switching of communication to one or more STAs to which the communication device itself connects or one or more access points with which the communication device itself cooperates.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 28/08 - Load balancing or load distribution
  • H04W 36/22 - Performing reselection for specific purposes for handling the traffic
  • H04W 36/26 - Reselection being triggered by specific parameters by agreed or negotiated communication parameters
  • H04W 84/12 - WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

90.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF SAME, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023024200
Publication Number 2024/009888
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-29
Publication Date 2024-01-11
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tenkawa, Tomoyuki
  • Aoba, Masato

Abstract

This information processing device, which assists in the determination of correctness pertaining to information that indicates the position and size of a verification portion of a subject in an image, comprises: an acquisition unit which acquires a plurality of images, and, in each of the plurality of images, reference frame information that represents the position and size of a reference frame including a subject and verification frame information that indicates the position and size of a verification frame including the verification portion of the subject; a normalization unit which normalizes the size of the reference frame represented by the acquired reference frame information, and normalizes the size and position of the corresponding verification frame according to the normalization; and a display control unit which displays, for each image of the plurality of images, the normalized reference frame at a preset position, and overlappingly displays the normalized verification frame at a relative position with respect to the normalized reference frame according to the normalized position and size.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06T 7/00 - Image analysis
  • G06V 10/72 - Data preparation, e.g. statistical preprocessing of image or video features

91.

OBFUSCATION OF IES IN MANAGEMENT FRAMES USING CONTAINER IES WITH ENCRYPTED INFORMATION SECTION

      
Application Number EP2023068654
Publication Number 2024/008841
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-06
Publication Date 2024-01-11
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON EUROPE LIMITED (United Kingdom)
Inventor
  • Baron, Stéphane
  • Nezou, Patrice
  • Sevin, Julien

Abstract

The invention improves user privacy in wireless networks by making fingerprinting of management frames more difficult. It is achieved by obfuscating the IEs that populate a management frame. Some IEs to be included in the management frame are grouped into sets; each set of one or more IEs is encrypted into an encrypted portion; each encrypted portion is embedded within the information part of a new IE, acting as a container. One or more of such Container IEs are then embedded in the frame body of the management frame under construction. The management frame can then be transmitted. By changing obfuscating parameters used to build the Container IEs, when the station changes its own MAC address based on a RCM procedure, the same frame, such as a beacon frame, can have a very different fingerprint after the MAC address change. Fingerprint-based correlation between frames is therefore made more difficult.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 12/02 - Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
  • H04W 12/03 - Protecting confidentiality, e.g. by encryption
  • H04W 12/106 - Packet or message integrity
  • H04W 84/12 - WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

92.

METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR ENCODING AND DECODING A TENSOR

      
Application Number AU2023050522
Publication Number 2024/007049
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-13
Publication Date 2024-01-11
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON AUSTRALIA PTY LTD (Australia)
Inventor
  • Rosewarne, Christopher James
  • Nguyen, Thi Hong Nhung

Abstract

An apparatus and method for decoding at least a plurality of tensors forming a hierarchical representation of feature maps for a single frame from a bitstream. The method comprises: decoding a first unit of information from the bitstream; decoding a second unit of information from the bitstream; and determining a first plurality of tensors from the first unit of information, feature maps of at least one tensor of the first plurality of tensors having a different spatial resolution from feature maps of other tensor(s) of the first plurality of tensors. The method also comprises determining a second plurality of tensors from the second unit of information, feature maps of at least one tensor of the second plurality of tensors having a different spatial resolution from feature maps of other tensor(s) of the second plurality of tensors. Feature maps of each tensor of the first plurality of tensors have different spatial resolution from feature maps of each tensor of the second plurality of tensors, and the tensors of the first plurality of tensors and the second plurality of tensors correspond to the hierarchical representation of feature maps for the single frame

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 19/103 - Selection of coding mode or of prediction mode
  • G06N 3/0464 - Convolutional networks [CNN, ConvNet]
  • H04N 19/169 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals using adaptive coding characterised by the coding unit, i.e. the structural portion or semantic portion of the video signal being the object or the subject of the adaptive coding
  • H04N 19/172 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals using adaptive coding characterised by the coding unit, i.e. the structural portion or semantic portion of the video signal being the object or the subject of the adaptive coding the unit being an image region, e.g. an object the region being a picture, frame or field
  • H04N 19/96 - Tree coding, e.g. quad-tree coding

93.

INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM

      
Application Number JP2023015064
Publication Number 2024/009581
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-04-13
Publication Date 2024-01-11
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Okano, Yu
  • Nakamura, Naohito

Abstract

An information processing system that has an information processing device and a terminal device, and that estimates the position and orientation of the terminal device, the information processing system being characterized in that the information processing device has a first imaging means, a first acquisition means for using an image captured by the first imaging means to acquire information about the position and orientation of the information processing device, a generation means for generating map information on the basis of the position and orientation information about the information processing device, and a key frame image, which is an image captured at the relevant position and orientation, an extraction means for extracting a portion of the map information, and a communication means for transmitting the extracted map information extracted by the extraction means to the terminal device, and the terminal device has a second imaging means, and a second acquisition means for using an image captured by the second imaging means and the extracted map information transmitted from the information processing device to acquire information about the position and orientation of the terminal device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06T 7/70 - Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras

94.

PRINTING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023019663
Publication Number 2024/009642
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-05-26
Publication Date 2024-01-11
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Sako, Ritsuto

Abstract

In the present invention, a server receives notification of the state of a printing device, and returns a response to the notification of the state of the printing device, the response indicating that the state of the printing device has exceeded a predetermined frequency upper limit. The printing device, which executes printing on the basis of printing data acquired from the server, transmits a notification of the state of the printing device corresponding to the progress of printing, and receives a response to the transmitted notification of the state from the server. The printing device, when in a standby state upon completion of a print job, determines whether there is a print job to be successively processed and, if there is such a print job, the printing device controls transmission so that a notification of the state of the printing device is not transmitted.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
  • B41J 29/42 - Scales and indicators, e.g. for determining side margins
  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof

95.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023023249
Publication Number 2024/009799
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-23
Publication Date 2024-01-11
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Inohiza Hirohiko

Abstract

In the present invention, in order to estimate an MCS, some or all of an SNR, a measurement PER, a target PER, and the movement speed of a communication device are input, as input data, to a learned model, and notification is carried out, with respect to another communication device, of information of the MCS calculated by the learned model.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 28/18 - Negotiating wireless communication parameters
  • H04W 24/10 - Scheduling measurement reports
  • H04W 84/12 - WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

96.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023023251
Publication Number 2024/009801
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-23
Publication Date 2024-01-11
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Yoshikawa Yuki

Abstract

The present invention provides a communication device that acquires, as input data for inference, some or all of the following information and calculates information indicating whether to roam or not, and if so, to which AP: STA location information, a threshold value for radio wave strength when moving BSS, the number of STAs to which an AP connects, the radio wave strength received from the STAs to which the communication device itself connects, the radio wave conditions of a nearby AP indicated by the STAs to which the AP connects, information indicating surrounding communication conditions indicated by the STAs to which the AP connects, frequency bands and channels supported by the STAs to which the AP connects, capability information about a nearby AP, and time series data for any of the above information in a unit of time. If the calculation result calculated by the calculating means requires roaming of a STA to which the communication device itself connects, the communication device issues a notification thereof to one or more STAs to which the communication device itself connects.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 48/20 - Selecting an access point
  • H04W 28/16 - Central resource management; Negotiation of resources or communication parameters, e.g. negotiating bandwidth or QoS [Quality of Service]
  • H04W 84/12 - WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

97.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSION AND ENCODING OF 3D DYNAMIC POINT CLOUD

      
Application Number EP2023068942
Publication Number 2024/008968
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-07
Publication Date 2024-01-11
Owner
  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • CANON EUROPE LIMITED (United Kingdom)
Inventor
  • Le Floch, Hervé
  • Ouedraogo, Naël
  • Tannhauser, Falk

Abstract

The present invention concerns a method of encoding a 3D dynamic point cloud, comprising a sequence of 3D point clouds, each 3D point cloud comprising a set of 3D points, in a bitstream, wherein the method comprises for encoding a current 3D point: determining a set of predictors based for example on a set of prediction functions; selecting a predictor for the current 3D point among the set of predictors based on a cost evaluated for each predictor; and encoding in the bitstream information for reconstructing the set of predictors, an index of the predictor selected in the set of predictors and a residual.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06T 9/00 - Image coding
  • H04N 19/107 - Selection of coding mode or of prediction mode between spatial and temporal predictive coding, e.g. picture refresh
  • H04N 19/597 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals using predictive coding specially adapted for multi-view video sequence encoding
  • H04N 19/70 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals characterised by syntax aspects related to video coding, e.g. related to compression standards

98.

CONTROL DEVICE, SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023013780
Publication Number 2024/004306
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-04-03
Publication Date 2024-01-04
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Uchihara, Masato

Abstract

A control device according to the present invention is for controlling a display device worn by a first user in a first real space, and has a control means for controlling the display device so as to display a virtual object as though said object was placed at a position in the first real space corresponding to the position of a second user in a second real space, and a range display object indicating the range in which the virtual object can move in the first real space.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06T 19/00 - Manipulating 3D models or images for computer graphics
  • G06F 3/0346 - Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user; Accessories therefor with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
  • G06F 3/04815 - Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object

99.

IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023014599
Publication Number 2024/004321
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-04-10
Publication Date 2024-01-04
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sato, Shogo
  • Hayashi, Masayuki

Abstract

An image processing device according to the present invention can be used together with a head-mounted display device having a first imaging unit for obtaining distance information, a second imaging unit that is different from the first imaging unit, and a display unit, and is characterized by having: a first acquisition means that acquires a first image in which the first imaging device has imaged a subject; a second acquisition means that acquires a second image in which the second imaging unit has imaged the subject; and a generation means that, on the basis of the second image and distance information corresponding to the first image, generates a display image to be displayed on the display unit.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06T 19/00 - Manipulating 3D models or images for computer graphics
  • H04N 13/239 - Image signal generators using stereoscopic image cameras using two 2D image sensors having a relative position equal to or related to the interocular distance
  • H04N 13/254 - Image signal generators using stereoscopic image cameras in combination with electromagnetic radiation sources for illuminating objects
  • H04N 13/257 - Colour aspects
  • H04N 13/279 - Image signal generators from 3D object models, e.g. computer-generated stereoscopic image signals the virtual viewpoint locations being selected by the viewers or determined by tracking
  • H04N 13/344 - Displays for viewing with the aid of special glasses or head-mounted displays [HMD] with head-mounted left-right displays
  • H04N 13/361 - Reproducing mixed stereoscopic images; Reproducing mixed monoscopic and stereoscopic images, e.g. a stereoscopic image overlay window on a monoscopic image background
  • H04N 13/366 - Image reproducers using viewer tracking

100.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023019253
Publication Number 2024/004449
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-05-24
Publication Date 2024-01-04
Owner CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Fukada Masanori
  • Denoual Franck
  • Maze Frederic
  • Ruellan Herve

Abstract

According to the present invention, one or more region information items describing one or more shape information items for identifying an object included in an image are generated, and association information associating the image and the region information items is generated. The region information items are combined to generate combination type information. Combination region information for identifying the combined regions is generated in accordance with the combination type information. The one or more region information items, the association information, the combination type information, and the combination region information are stored in an image file.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 5/92 - Transformation of the television signal for recording, e.g. modulation, frequency changing; Inverse transformation for playback
  • H04N 19/20 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals using video object coding
  • H04N 19/70 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals characterised by syntax aspects related to video coding, e.g. related to compression standards
  • H04N 21/433 - Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request or caching operations
  • H04N 21/44 - Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to MPEG-4 scene graphs
  • H04N 21/84 - Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors
  • H04N 21/845 - Structuring of content, e.g. decomposing content into time segments
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