Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideyuki Ikegami

Satoru Yamamoto

Masahiro Serizawa

Akira Morisawa

Mitsuhiko Sato

Shokyo Koh

Toru Ono

Hidenori Sunada

Eiichi Motoyama

Takashi Fujimori

Shunsaku Kondo

Rieko Akiba

Manabu Yamauchi

Kuniyasu Kimura

Akiko Kanno

Tokuharu Kaneko

Naoto Yamada

Tsuyoshi Muto

Ryuta Mine

Atsushi Chaki

Kenji Morita

Akinobu Nishikata

Norifumi Miyake

Kiyoshi Okamoto

Mitsushige Murata

Hiroto Nishihara

Nobuo Sekiguchi

Hiroyuki Eda

Shigemichi Hamano

Kenji Kuroki

Satoshi Okawa

Tsuyoshi Shiga

An information processing apparatus, comprising a display control unit configured to display, in a display area of a display device, an image captured by an imaging apparatus, an area designation unit configured to designate an area for the image displayed in the display area, an enlargement unit configured to extract and to enlarge and display a part of the image displayed in the display area, a determination unit configured to determine whether a position of the designated area is outside the display area as a result of enlarging and displaying the part of the image displayed in the display area, and a notification unit configured to notify, when a determination is made such that the position of the designated area is outside the display area, of the determination.

Information processing apparatus, system, control method of information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

An information processing apparatus determines, for an image to be processed including a first region having a first image quality and a second region other than the first region having a second image quality lower than the first image quality, whether or not a difference in image quality between the first image quality and the second image quality is equal to or larger than a predetermined value, converts, in a case where the determination unit determines that the difference between the first image quality and the second image quality is equal to or larger than the predetermined value, the image of the second region into an image having a third image quality higher than the second image quality, and generates a combined image by using the post-conversion image having the third image quality and the image of the first region.

Information processing apparatus, system, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

An information processing apparatus for executing reception processing of receiving a video from an external apparatus determines a reception state of the video from the external apparatus by requesting the external apparatus to send the video. The information processing apparatus executes, based on a result of determining the reception state, one of a stream reception operation of receiving a video stream by sending a stream request to the external apparatus and an individual reception operation of individually receiving an image included in the video stream by sending an individual request to the external apparatus.

Information processing apparatus, control method therefor and storage medium

An information processing apparatus detects an object that enters or exits a predetermined region, manages, in a queue, data based on the detection, and counts the number of predetermined object(s) based on an image obtained by capturing the predetermined region. The apparatus, in a case where the predetermined object is detected, the queue is corrected based on the number counted by and the number of data managed in the queue.

Information processing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

An image capturing control apparatus controls, in accordance with an end of an operation by a user on an image captured by an image capture apparatus, a parameter value according to the operation to be set in the image capture apparatus, and causes a display unit to display a display image which indicates the parameter value according to the operation and is different from the captured image. At a first time point in the middle of the operation by the user and before the parameter value according to the operation is set in the image capture apparatus, the display unit is caused to display the display image corresponding to the parameter value according to the operation at the first time point.

Image capturing control apparatus, method of controlling the same and computer readable storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes a display unit that displays an image on a display device, a specifying unit that specifies a selection region selected in the displayed image, and a determining unit that determines a detection parameter for use in object detection processing based on a feature of an object within the specified selection region.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and storage medium

An acquisition unit acquires an image of a partial region which is a portion of an image captured by an imaging unit. During a time in which the image of the partial region is acquired by the acquisition unit, a control unit performs control to restrict operations of driving units for changing an imaging range of the imaging unit.

Control apparatus, control method, and recording medium

If any of a plurality of conditions is satisfied, an image forming apparatus having a plurality of image forming units that form images on an intermediate transfer member in a superimposed manner detects, using a pattern detection sensor, the amount of color misregistration of the images formed by the plurality of image forming units on the intermediate transfer member and corrects the color misregistration of the images formed by the plurality of image forming units in accordance with the amount of color misregistration that is smaller than a color misregistration correction tolerance, which varies depending on the plurality of conditions, and that has been detected by the pattern detection sensor.

Method for controlling image forming apparatus, and image forming apparatus

A design support method of verifying control on a device of an image forming apparatus registers, in a storage device, trigger information for specifying a content of control to be executed when a start condition for switching the control state of the device is satisfied (S). The apparatus then registers, in the storage device, the allowable range of the state change of the device due to control switched when the start condition is satisfied (S). The apparatus then verifies whether the state change of the device due to the control switched when the start condition is satisfied falls outside the allowable range, by referring to the operation state of the device which is input through an input unit, and the trigger information registered in the storage device (S).

Support method for simulating a printing operation

A simulator apparatus simulates a behavior of an image forming apparatus in order to verify the behavior. The simulator apparatus includes a computing unit that performs a simulation operation on the behavior of the image forming apparatus, and a selection unit that selects a simulation speed of the computing unit.

Simulator apparatus and simulation method

A design support method of inspecting control on an image forming apparatus based on a simulation result of operation control on a virtual device which is modeled to simulate operation of the image forming apparatus includes the steps of referring to control definition information for determining whether an operation request is proper with respect to a virtual device for which the operation request is input, in accordance with an operating state of the virtual device, and determining, based on the control definition information referred to in the referring step whether operation of the virtual device can be performed.

Support method, design support apparatus, and storage medium

An image forming apparatus is provided, in carrying out an image forming operation using a paper sheet, that uses a sheet containing a wireless tag that stores an address storing control information for performing an optimum image forming. The image forming apparatus obtains the address from the wireless tag using a receiving device, and obtains control information from a server via a network based on the obtained address. The image forming apparatus controls an image forming condition based on the control information, and carries out the image forming under image forming conditions optimum for the sheet.

Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and control program thereof to manage printing sheet communications

An image reading apparatus which enables reduction of time to be taken from a job start instruction to a reading operation start. An automatic document feeder unit feeds an original. An upstream reader reads an image on one side of the original fed by the automatic document feeder unit. A downstream reader is disposed downstream of the upstream reader in an original feeding direction, to read an image on another side of the original. The upstream reader and the downstream reader read images of respective white reference plates, and the image reading apparatus generates correction data for the upstream reader and the downstream reader based on the images of the respective white reference plates read by the upstream reader and the downstream reader.

Image reading apparatus and control method therefor

A data receiving system which enables, even when the location of a recipient is changed, a sender to always send data to the same transmission destination, and the recipient to obtain received data from a nearest output terminal apparatus. A server as the data receiving apparatus receives data addressed to an IP address, as received data through the Internet. A multi-function peripheral as an output terminal apparatus receives the received data from the server and outputs the same. In this case, the server selects the multi-function peripheral from registered multi-function peripherals based on the IP address to which the received data is addressed, and relationship map information, and then transfers the received data to the selected multi-function peripheral.

Data receiving system and data output method therefor, data receiving apparatus, and control program for implementing the data output method

A computer readable design support program for inspecting a processing operation of software that controls a sheet conveyance mechanism by displaying the behavior of feeding a virtual sheet from a virtual sheet stock portion on a display portion, includes a sheets number setting procedure of setting the sheets number of virtual sheets stored in the virtual sheet stock portion, a sheet feed display procedure of displaying the behavior of feeding the virtual sheet from the virtual sheet stock portion on the display portion, a stored sheets number subtraction procedure of subtracting the stored sheets number of virtual sheets corresponding to the virtual sheet stock portion to which the virtual sheet is supplied in the sheet feed display procedure, a judgment procedure of judging whether or not the virtual sheet is used up in the virtual sheet stock portion where the stored sheets number of virtual sheets is subtracted in the stored sheets number subtraction procedure, and a paper out display procedure of displaying on the display portion the paper out on the virtual sheet stock portion for which it is judged that the virtual sheet is used up in the judgement procedure.

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Hideyuki Ikegami