Patents Examined by Allen H. Nguyen
  • Printing device holding print job without limiting level of electric power being supplied to external device
    Patent number: 11556287
    Abstract: The printing device includes a printing unit, an interface, and a controller. In a case that a print job is received while electric power is being supplied to an external device from the interface, the controller determines whether a first condition or a second condition is met. The print job is for commanding the printing unit to execute printing. The second condition is different from the first condition. The controller executes printing based on the print job while limiting a level of the electric power being supplied to the external device from the interface in a case that the controller determines that the first condition is met. The controller holds the print job without limiting a level of the electric power supplied to the external device from the interface in a case that the controller determines that the second condition is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hajime Usami, Yasuhiro Shimamura, Seigo Hayashi
  • Non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions for terminal device to send connection information to communication device, and communication device
    Patent number: 11550525
    Abstract: A terminal device may execute a first attempt process in which the terminal device attempts to communicate with a server on the Internet via a communication interface by using a specific LAN to which the terminal device is currently connected; and in a case where the attempt to communicate with the server is successful in the first attempt process, send connection information to a communication device different from the terminal device, the connection information being for connecting the communication device to the specific LAN, wherein in a case where a specific condition is fulfilled, the connection information is not sent to the communication device, the specific condition including a condition that the attempt to communicate with the server fails in the first attempt process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryoya Tsuji
  • Image forming system that suitably carries out communication using mobile communication system, control method therefor, and storage medium
    Patent number: 11550526
    Abstract: An image forming system that is capable of causing an image forming apparatus to suitably carry out communication using a mobile communication system, the image forming system including an image processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus. Control information used to carry out an image forming process in which an image is formed on a sheet based on image data generated by an image processing apparatus is output from first and second millimeter wave communication interfaces of the image processing apparatus. The output control information is received by third and fourth millimeter wave communication interfaces of the image forming apparatus. Response information that is a response to the control information is output from the third and fourth millimeter wave communication interfaces and sent to the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Arima, Ryohei Yamada, Kazuhiro Oyoshi, Yoshikazu Sato, Mizuki Wakabayashi
  • Information processing apparatus capable of controlling a document stored in a memory not to leak to a network not permitted to access and non-transitory computer readable medium
    Patent number: 11553104
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes multiple network interfaces, multiple storage areas for saving data, an obtaining unit, and a presenting unit. The multiple network interfaces are connected to corresponding networks. For each of the multiple storage areas, a network interface permitted as an output path of the saved data is defined. The obtaining unit obtains network information indicating a network available to a group to which each user belongs. The presenting unit presents to a user a list of storage areas selectable as a data storage destination. The presenting unit presents a list of storage areas for which a network interface connected to a network available to the group to which the user belongs, which is indicated by the network information, is defined as the output path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Noriyuki Tatsuma
  • Detection device and processing device
    Patent number: 11553093
    Abstract: A detection device includes an electrostatic capacitance sensor including an electrode pair and being configured to detect electrostatic capacitance of a medium brought into contact with the electrode pair, and a first ultrasonic wave sensor including a first transmission unit configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave and a first reception unit configured to receive an ultrasonic wave transmitted from the first transmission unit. The transmission unit and the reception unit are positioned to sandwich the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuneyuki Sasaki
  • Information processing apparatus, control method of information processing apparatuses, scanner apparatus, control method of scanner apparatus, and recording medium
    Patent number: 11553095
    Abstract: A client terminal that executes an application that can transmit both push scanning and pull scanning instructions to an MFP provided with a scanner apparatus has an acquisition unit that acquires an image to be used for a preview from the MFP by providing an instruction for pull scanning to the MFP if the input of a setting for performing a push scanning is received and a preview setting is further received, a provision unit that provides a preview screen by using the acquired image to be used for a preview; and a transmission unit that transmits a push scanning instruction to the MFP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yusuke Kobana
  • Printing apparatus
    Patent number: 11550521
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveying mechanism configured to convey a continuously-fed paper, a print head, a memory, and a controller. The controller obtains printing information including a plurality of pieces of the unit-image data, pitch information, and speed information of a continuously-fed paper. The controller determines a first period of time which is required to print a predetermined number of unit-images on the continuously-fed paper and a second period of time which is required to store the predetermined number of pieces of the unit-image data into the memory. The controller determines, based on the first period of time and the second period of time, a stored-number which is a number of pieces of the unit-image data to be stored into the memory and starts printing the plurality of unit-images when the stored-number of pieces of the unit-image data is stored into the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Takao
  • Information processing apparatus and wireless communication method
    Patent number: 11553106
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first communication unit configured to communicate with a first communication apparatus; a second communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with each of one or more second wireless communication apparatuses; an acquisition unit configured to acquire from the first communication apparatus via the first communication unit an apparatus ID that is held by the first communication apparatus and that is used for identifying one of the one or more second wireless communication apparatuses to or from which the second communication unit transmits or receives data; and a control unit configured to control the second communication unit to transmit or receive the data to or from the one of the one or more second wireless communication apparatuses that is identified by the apparatus ID acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akiko Tokumaru, Yasuo Komada, Keigo Ogura, Kouichi Unno
  • Methods and system for policy-based printing using public print server
    Patent number: 11544024
    Abstract: A policy-based system is implemented to allow access to a private domain to print using a public domain. The private domain includes private servers that store documents. The public domain includes servers and a printing device. A public policy server uses a domain list and a protocol connection with a private authentication server to validate a user and identify which private domain to access. The public policy server receives requests from the printing device to process a print job of a document in the private domain. The policy-based system also determines whether printing operations may occur in a public printing service. A public print server determines whether to allow printing for a user in an organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisaku Nagano, Hiroyuki Takaishi, Jin Liang, Tai Yu Chen, Michael Ong Martin
  • System and method of providing universal mobile internet proxy printing
    Patent number: 11537335
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method to enable printing on legacy devices. The method includes discovering a legacy device that does not have a universal record that enables the legacy device to provide services to a mobile device through a network, appending the universal record for the legacy device, transmitting the universal record for the legacy device to a controller, receiving, at the controller and from the mobile device, a request for services which can be provided by the legacy device, transmitting, from the controller and based on the universal record for the legacy device, data associated with the legacy device to the mobile device to yield transmitted data and transmitting, based on an acceptance of the transmitted data by the mobile device, a service request from the mobile device to the legacy device for providing a service to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul Kachalia, Kali Prasanna Mishra
  • Printing apparatus, control method, and storage medium for acquiring a print job
    Patent number: 11526318
    Abstract: A control method of a printing apparatus for acquiring a print job from a cloud print service, and performing printing based on the acquired print job includes transmitting, in a case where a notification received from the cloud print service includes information indicating that a fetchable print job exists, a first request related to the print job, to the cloud print service, executing login processing of causing a user to log into the printing apparatus, and transmitting a second request related to the print job, to the cloud print service conditional upon the login processing being performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Go Inoue
  • Computer-readable medium, information processing device, and method for performing eco-printing
    Patent number: 11526309
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions executable by a processor of an information processing device including a user interface. The instructions are configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the information processing device to accept via the user interface an operation for performing eco-printing, obtain related information on a plurality of setting items for the eco-printing, and when accepting the operation for performing the eco-printing, automatically set print parameters for the plurality of setting items for the eco-printing, based on the obtained related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masafumi Kawaguchi
  • Printing system and control method thereof
    Patent number: 11523019
    Abstract: In a printing system capable of supplying a sheet of a job having undergone print processing by the printing unit of a printing apparatus to a post-processing unit capable of executing at least a specific type of post-processing among a plurality of types of post-processes, when the target job requires the specific type of post-processing, the printing apparatus is inhibited from executing print processing of the job without explicitly determining a sheet necessary for the print processing of the job by a user using a user interface unit. When the target job does not require the specific type of post-processing, the printing apparatus is permitted to execute print processing of the job without explicitly determining a sheet necessary for the print processing of the job by the user using the user interface unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Takahashi
  • Method and system for transparently injecting custom screens into existing third-party workflows
    Patent number: 11523012
    Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and multifunction printer are disclosed for injecting screens into a third-party workflow on a display panel of a multifunction printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A., INC.
    Inventor: Shaun Pinney
  • Policy-based printing system and methods using list for documents
    Patent number: 11513746
    Abstract: A policy-based printing system is implemented to allow access to a private domain to print using a public domain. The private domain includes private servers that store documents. The public domain includes servers and a printing device. A public policy server uses a domain list and a protocol connection with a private authentication server to validate a user and identify which private domain to access. The public policy server receives requests from the printing device to process a print job of a document in the private domain. A list is generated from the private server storing the documents based on the policy or other criteria. The list is provided to the user so that an approved listed document can be selected for printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Liang, Tai Yu Chen, Michael Ong Martin
  • Image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 11516356
    Abstract: In a normal mode that is a mode when a user performs a printing work, a wireless operation unit shifts to a second mode when the wireless operation unit is not operated for a first predetermined time in a first mode. In a maintenance mode when a repairman performs a maintenance work, the wireless operation unit does not shift to the second mode even if the wireless operation unit is not operated for the first predetermined time in the first mode. In addition, in the maintenance mode, if the remaining amount of a battery is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount in the first mode, the wireless operation unit does not shift to the second mode, and if the remaining amount of the battery is less than the predetermined amount, the wireless operation unit shifts to the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shozo Yamasaki
  • Image forming system, image forming apparatus, and feeding apparatus
    Patent number: 11513748
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises an accommodating unit that accommodates recording materials and a feeding unit that feeds an accommodated recording material, detects a fed recording material, and measures time from a predetermined timing until a recording material is detected. An information processing apparatus receives measured time data from the image forming apparatus, classifies the received plurality of time data into a first group and a second group in accordance with a length of time, selects a group for predicting a remaining life time of the feeding unit from the classified first group and second group, and predicts a remaining life time of the feeding unit using time data included in the selected group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Takashi Yano, Hidehiro Ushiozu, Masato Suzuki, Kosuke Ogino
  • Image forming apparatus that controls a germicidal lamp apparatus generating germicidal light
    Patent number: 11511003
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus supplies, in a normal mode, electric power to an image forming device, and limits, in a power saving mode, power supplying to the image forming device to be less than that in the normal mode. The image forming apparatus communicates, in the normal mode, with a germicidal lamp apparatus via a communication interface such that the germicidal lamp apparatus generates no germicidal light, and communicates, in the power saving mode, with the germicidal lamp apparatus via the communication interface such that the germicidal lamp apparatus generates germicidal light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takayuki Nishi
  • Policy-based printing system and methods using list for documents
    Patent number: 11507331
    Abstract: A policy-based printing system is implemented to allow access to a private domain to print using a public domain. The private domain includes private servers that store documents. The public domain includes servers and a printing device. A public policy server uses a domain list and a protocol connection with a private authentication server to validate a user and identify which private domain to access. The public policy server receives requests from the printing device to process a print job of a document in the private domain. A list is generated from the private server storing the documents based on the policy or other criteria. The list is provided to the user so that an approved listed document can be selected for printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Liang, Tai Yu Chen, Michael Ong Martin
  • Print job transmitting device for transmitting a print job and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a print job transmitting program for the same
    Patent number: 11500594
    Abstract: A print job transmitting device acquires the job execution order from the image forming apparatus every time a specific time period is lapse until the job execution order acquired from the image forming apparatus is not different from a new job execution order after requesting the image forming apparatus to change the job execution order into the new job execution order, and notifies the job execution order acquired from the image forming apparatus when the job execution order acquired from the image forming apparatus is not different from the new job execution order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Dozen, Takanori Miyamoto