Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Canon Inc.

Yoshiyuki Hirai

Masao Maeda

Tomoyuki Takeda

Michihiro Izumi

Muneki Nakao

Makoto Mikuni

Seiya Fujinaga

Yosuke Ezumi

Nobuyuki Bannai

Shinya Kogure

Tokiko Watanabe

Akinori Horiuchi

Keisuke Niimoto

Koichiro Otsuka

Yumi Miyamoto

Naomi Nakamura

Koji Okamura

Yoichiro Makino

Nobuyuki Tsukada

Wahei Sugawara

Teruyuki Nishii

A printing apparatus capable of executing printing based on a flat-rate use service includes a first connection unit for first connection between a printing apparatus and a first apparatus and for which a first method is used, and a second connection unit for second connection between the printing apparatus and a second apparatus and for which a second method is used. A detection unit detects that the second connection has been established, and a control unit causes the printing apparatus to operate in a predetermined mode for performing setting for establishing the first connection. Even if it is detected while the printing apparatus is operating in the predetermined mode that the second connection has been established, the control unit causes the printing apparatus to continue operation in the predetermined mode.

Printing apparatus, control method, and storage medium for storing program

A printing apparatus determines whether it has connected to the Internet in a case where an operation to power on is accepted before initial setup of the printing apparatus is completed, and executes predetermined control for preventing a process for holding printing material in the printing apparatus from being performed by a user. Contract information is obtained through the Internet in a case where the printing apparatus has connected to the Internet, and it is confirmed whether the user can use the printing apparatus in a contract status indicated by the contract information. The predetermined control is cancelled in a case where the printing apparatus connects to the Internet and it is confirmed the user can use the printing apparatus in the contract status indicated by the contract information.

Control over increasing printing material based on determination of subscription service operation mode and network setup process based on internet connection

A communication apparatus configured not to execute displaying, based on the operation in the connection setting state being started, a screen for receiving an operation for stopping the operation in the connection setting state on a display unit of the communication apparatus.

Communication apparatus

In a case where a connection between a communication apparatus operating in a connection setting state and a terminal apparatus has been established during a period in which an initial setting of the communication apparatus is being performed, the communication apparatus displays a predetermined notification screen on a display unit after the initial setting is completed, and, in a case where a connection between the communication apparatus operating in the connection setting state and the terminal apparatus has not been established during a period in which the initial setting is being performed, the communication apparatus does not display the predetermined notification screen on the display unit after the initial setting is completed.

Communication apparatus capable of operating in connection setting state and performing initial setting

The ink jet printing apparatus has: an analysis unit configured to analyze whether there is an error relating to a pattern based on image data read by a reading unit; a classification unit configured to classify whether an error of analysis results by the analysis unit is an error that a user can cope with; and a control unit configured to perform control to, in a case where an error of classification results by the classification unit is an error that a user can cope with, display a coping method thereof on the display unit, and to, in a case where an error of classification results by the classification unit is not an error that a user can cope with, advance processing to processing other than printing position adjustment processing included in a setup without adjusting a printing position of a print head.

Ink jet printing apparatus, control method thereof and storage medium

A printing apparatus performs printing using a plurality of sheets different in size. Stored instructions are executed to act as a display control unit displaying an operation guidance on a display unit for setting a sheet in a sheet tray, and a data acquiring unit acquiring regional information of the printing apparatus. When the data acquiring unit acquires regional information indicating a first region, the display control unit displays an operation guidance including content that notifies a user of a specific operation that is to be performed on the sheet tray so that it is able to hold a sheet having a first sheet size. When the data acquiring unit acquires regional information indicating a second region which is different from the first region, the display control unit displays an operation guidance not including the content that notifies a user of the specific operation.

Printing apparatus, display method of operation guidance in printing apparatus, and storage medium

A problem is solved by providing a communication apparatus including a displaying unit that displays, on a display unit, a predetermined screen for executing a second communication setting that allows the communication apparatus to communicate with a terminal apparatus by using a second communication method, which is different from a first communication method, in a case where a cancel instruction is received while the communication apparatus is operating in a predetermined condition.

Communication apparatus, control method, and storage medium for canceling a communication setting

A printing apparatus to communicate with a terminal apparatus, includes a storing unit, an acquiring unit, a receiving unit, and a printing unit. The storing unit stores information for specifying first paper types selectable in the terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus acquires the information from the printing apparatus and displays the first paper types as selection candidate paper types. The acquiring unit acquires a second paper type. The receiving unit receives a first paper type from the first paper types for printing of an image. The printing unit prints the image where the first paper type corresponding to second paper types is received and any of the second paper types corresponding to the first paper type is acquired, and does not print the image where the first paper type corresponding to second paper types is received and another second paper type different from the second paper types is acquired.

Print control apparatus, print control method, and storage medium

A print control apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a receiving unit, and a print control unit. The acquiring unit acquires an attribute of print paper set in a printing apparatus. The receiving unit receives a category, designated by a user, of the attribute of the print paper to be used by the printing apparatus. The print control unit causes the printing apparatus to print an image in accordance with the attribute in a case where the category received by the receiving unit and a category including the attribute acquired by the acquiring unit are matched.

A wireless mode between a scanner and an image communication apparatus is changed, in response to completion of image transmission from the scanner to the image communication apparatus, completion of print of the image sent from the scanner to the image communication apparatus, completion of transmission via a communication line connected to the image communication apparatus of the image sent from the scanner to the image communication apparatus, instructions to stop print of the image sent from the scanner to the image communication apparatus, instructions to stop transmission via the communication line connected to the image communication apparatus of the image sent from the scanner to the image communication apparatus, and states of the scanner and the image communication apparatus at a predetermined time and so on. For example, a low power consumption mode and communication mode of Bluetooth communication are switched to each other.

Image communication apparatus wirelessly connectable to other apparatuses, system having the image communication apparatus, and method for controlling the same

It is an object to provide image processing apparatus and method which can execute a drawing combining instruction and a trimming instruction of illustration/characters or the like on the basis of a disclosure on one sheet in a composite print of a sheet scanning system. When a trimming instruction command is issued, an image process for trimming is executed to a given one of closed areas detected from a drawing instructing area on the sheet. Another image process for a combining process of characters/illustration is executed to the other closed areas.

Image processing apparatus, method, and storage medium for information processing according to information on a scanned sheet

A print processing device including a printing unit to print an image on a sheet, a reading unit to read a sheet, an operation unit including keys to be operated by a user, a print control unit to cause the printing unit to print either a first sheet for selecting an image from a plurality of images stored in a storage medium or a second sheet for selecting a language to be used in the first sheet, and an analyzing unit configured to analyze an image read by the reading unit. If a language is not registered, when the image corresponding to the second sheet is detected as an analysis result by the analyzing unit, the first sheet is printed using a language associated with the detected image and when the image corresponding to the second sheet is not detected, the second sheet is printed.

Print processing device and control method with registration of unregistered language required to perform function

The invention is to enable a secure sharing of an internet resource with a partner in conversation by the IP telephone, in simple and inexpensive manner and not requiring cumbersome operations, by a communication terminal only, not relying on another equipment. Internet resource sharing means is provided for a shared utilization of a same internet resource (WEB data, FTP file etc.) among the communication terminals () in conversation. The sharing of the internet resource is executed by transmitting/receiving URL information of the desired internet resource by FTP or by an E-mail protocol, or by transmitting/receiving the internet resource itself by an HTTP proxy procedure with the partner communication terminal, in which either of the communication terminal and the partner terminal functions as an HTTP proxy server and the other functions as an HTTP client. The sharing of the internet resource can also be achieved by accessing to a server providing a desired internet resource, and changing the transmitting address of the packet transmitted in such operation to an IP address of the partner in conversation, in such a manner that a response packet of the server is transmitted to the partner in conversation.

Communication terminal, control method for communication terminal and control program for communication terminal

Print processing device and control method for printing print instruction sheet using language associated with detected image or printing language setting sheet

An image combining apparatus and a control method for an image combining apparatus that allows a user to write a handwritten image on a writing sheet while confirming the positional relationship between the handwritten image and a photograph to be combined. When a writing sheet having a handwriting area in which a user writes the handwritten image to be combined with a photograph is printed, a reference image generated on the basis of the photograph is printed in the handwriting area.

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Kunitachi, Japan

Yoshiyuki Hirai