Patents Examined by Beniyam Menberu
  • Patent number: 11838473
    Abstract: A method for an information processing apparatus capable of executing an application that runs on an operating system includes determining whether data is writable by the application into a folder associated with the application, instructing the operating system to display a screen for permitting the application to write the data into the folder in a case where it is determined that the data is not writable into the folder associated with the application, the screen being a screen using Storage Access Framework (SAF), and writing the data into the folder, wherein, at a time of the writing, the data is written into the folder into which the application is permitted to write the data by an operation accepted on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kohei Komatsu
  • Patent number: 11831821
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of performing reception of an image in response to a transmission request issued before image accumulation while suppressing power consumption. The information processing apparatus transmits a request for transmitting an image to an image processing apparatus and monitors whether or not an image associated with the transmission request has been received. In response to receiving information indicating that there is no image associated with the transmission request, as a response to the transmission request, monitoring of whether or not an image associated with the transmission request has been received is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shoichi Kanno
  • Patent number: 11811977
    Abstract: The present information processing apparatus externally receives print data and a print quality criterion as a print job, analyzes the received print data, and extracts an object for which a print quality criterion can be designated. The information processing apparatus also analyzes the received print quality criterion and, based on a result of the analysis, determines whether or not a print quality criterion corresponding to the extracted object is designated in the received print quality criterion. The information processing apparatus also performs a predetermined notification if a print quality criterion corresponding to at least one extracted object is not designated in the received print quality criterion as a result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Anno
  • Patent number: 11811996
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a first processor including an information processing device configured to, when connecting to an external device through wireless communication based on a first wireless communication method, which is a short-range wireless communication method, transmit connection information for connecting to the information processing device through wireless communication based on a second wireless communication method different from the first wireless communication method to the connected external device; and a second processor including a terminal device configured to acquire the connection information by connecting to the information processing device through the wireless communication based on the first wireless communication method, and connect to the information processing device through the wireless communication based on the second wireless communication method in accordance with the acquired connection information and transmit authentication information for the informati
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuta Nakayama, Tetsuya Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11797243
    Abstract: A system includes an operation device and an information storing apparatus, which are connected via a network. The operation device determines, based on information input from the outside of the operation device in response to an operation performed on the operation device, an electronic device among a plurality of electronic devices connected to the system, for causing the electronic device to input electronic data to the information storing apparatus, and sends, to the information storing apparatus, a first request to cause the determined electronic device to input the electronic data to the information storing apparatus. The information storing apparatus sends, to the determined electronic device, a second request based on the first request sent from the operation device, and stores the electronic data that has been sent from the determined electronic device based on the sent second request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 11800037
    Abstract: An image inspecting device includes an abnormality detector and circuitry. The abnormality detector is configured to detect an abnormality of an inspection object image. The circuitry is configured to set a non-detection area to be excluded from a detection object area within which the abnormality detector detects an image abnormality and set an area including an abnormality detection portion as the non-detection area when a detection result obtained by the abnormality detector satisfies a non-detection condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoh Ishitsuka, Kohta Aoyagi, Ryosuke Ebinuma, Satoshi Nakayama, Kimiharu Yamazaki, Tohru Matsumoto, Tatsuya Ishii
  • Patent number: 11800023
    Abstract: An image formation device includes a controller, a storage, and an image former. The storage has a first storage area and a second storage area. The first storage area stores a setting value to be referred to during an operation of the image formation device. The second storage area stores management information to which a group policy is applied. The controller, when the management information was able to be acquired from an external portion, sets the setting value based on the acquired management information, and, when the management information was not able to be acquired from the external portion, sets the setting value based on the management information stored in the second storage area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirotaka Kodama
  • Patent number: 11785163
    Abstract: A first printer may include a controller configured to: in a case where a first predetermined operation is accepted in a state where second printer identification information and specific service-related information are stored in association with each other in the server, cause the display unit to display a notification screen that prompts a second predetermined operation, the second predetermined operation being for changing a printer used for the service from a second printer to the first printer; and in a case where the second predetermined operation is accepted, send a printer changing request including first printer identification information to the server. In a case where the printer changing request is sent to the server, the first printer identification information is stored, instead of the second printer identification information, in association with the specific service-related information in the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kumi Hatada
  • Patent number: 11782655
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for handling image forming abnormality, and an image forming apparatus are provided. The method is applied to the image forming apparatus and includes acquiring a print job from a control terminal and analyzing the print job to obtain an analysis result. When the analysis result is a failed analysis, whether a control program installed on the control terminal is abnormal is determined accordingly. The control program is a program which enables the control terminal to exchange the print job with the image forming apparatus. If the control program installed on the control terminal is abnormal, an abnormal-driving information page is generated and printed to output. By printing to output the abnormal information page, the user can be effectively and clearly informed of the cause of the printer abnormality, which improves the efficiency and user experience of abnormality resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ZHUHAI PANTUM ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Wang, Xuan Tan
  • Patent number: 11785162
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus incudes a printer and a controller. The controller causes the image forming apparatus to generate thumbnail images of a part of a plurality of pages of image data stored in an external storage medium, cause the printer to print onto one or more sheets the generated thumbnail images and index information corresponding to the printed thumbnail images, and then cause the printer to stop printing based on performing printing of the generated thumbnail images. In addition, a user is allowed to select whether or not to perform printing thumbnail images of pages of image data following the part of the plurality of pages of the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kyosuke Nakano
  • Patent number: 11768647
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording unit, first and second holding units, and a generation unit. The recording unit records an image on a recording medium, conveyed in a second direction, by using recording elements arranged along a first direction. The generation unit generates first correction data based on an input recording job and image data and a first adjustment value indicating a conveyance position, in the first direction, of a recording medium from the first holding unit, and generates second correction data based on the recording job and the image data and a second adjustment value indicating a conveyance position, in the first direction, of a recording medium from the second holding unit. The recording unit records an image on the first holding unit recording medium based on the first correction data, and records an image on the second holding unit recording medium based on the second correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shioiri, Kazuya Sato
  • Patent number: 11765279
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming unit, an inspection unit, a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet to the inspection unit, a controller configured to execute a first inspection mode in which a sheet having an image formed thereon is conveyed by the conveyance unit to the inspection unit and is inspected, and a second inspection mode in which, without executing image forming by the image forming unit, a sheet is conveyed by the conveyance unit to the inspection unit and is inspected, and a setting unit configured to set a recovery process. The setting unit permits the setting of the recovery process in the first inspection mode and prohibits the setting of the recovery process in the second inspection mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuichiro Oda
  • Patent number: 11765296
    Abstract: An information processing system configured to perform setting for an image processing apparatus based on setting edited by an application configured to operate on an information processing apparatus, wherein the system includes a startup unit that acquires a status of the image processing apparatus, downloads setting information for the image processing apparatus, determines whether or not to start up the application, and controls the startup of the application based on results of the determination, wherein the determination is performed based on the status before the setting information download has begun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keiko Kamoi
  • Patent number: 11750755
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: control an operation of the information processing apparatus by executing a control program; in response to reception of an instruction to enter a power-supply off state, determine whether a first power-supply off state is allowed to be entered, the first power-supply off state being a state in which, while a current operation state is held without execution of a restart of the control program, the operation is stopped; in response to a determination result indicating that the first power-supply off state fails to be entered, perform a redetermination after a lapse of a set time, the redetermination determining whether the first power-supply off state is allowed to be entered; and in response to the redetermination determining that the first power-supply off state is allowed to be entered, cause the first power-supply off state to be entered, and, in response to the redetermination determining that the first power-supply off state is not
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Masayoshi Miki
  • Patent number: 11736632
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a device monitoring method, an apparatus, a server, and a storage medium. The method includes receiving an authorization code, where the authorization code includes first information; the first information is configured to indicate a first value; and the first value is a maximum quantity of image forming devices capable of being monitored by a device monitoring system which is activated by the authorization code; determining the first value according to the authorization code; and configuring a first parameter value according to the first value, where the first parameter value is configured to record the maximum quantity of image forming devices capable of being monitored. The present disclosure reduces the data processing amount of the server where the device monitoring system is located, improves the monitoring effect of the device monitoring system on the image forming device and improves the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ZHUHAI PANTUM ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhongsong Liu, Guodong Wang, Yuanpei Zhao
  • Patent number: 11729325
    Abstract: An image forming device according to aspects of the present disclosure, including a communication interface, a user interface, and a controller. The controller configured to perform a remote display control of transmitting remote data to an information processing device. The remote data is data making a browser of the information processing device display a remote screen reproducing an operation screen of the image forming device. The controller is configured to perform obtaining decision information used to determine a mode of the remote screen and determining the mode based on the obtained decision information. The controller displays the remote screen having the display content of the mode on the browser by transmitting the remote data in accordance with a restriction parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kentaro Iwatsuka
  • Patent number: 11729335
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a first communication device provided communicatively with a first information processing apparatus, a second communication device provided communicatively with a second information processing apparatus, and a processor to receive a setting for a transmission destination of an input image, prohibit transmission of the input image via the second communication device when the first information processing apparatus that can communicate via the first communication device is set as the transmission destination of the input image, determine whether the first communication device is in a state physically communicable with a network. The processor permits transmission of the input image via the second communication device when the first information processing apparatus is set as the transmission destination of the input image and it is determined that the first communication device is not in a state physically communicable with the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: Katsunori Aoyama
  • Patent number: 11729320
    Abstract: A system includes an image processing apparatus configured to perform image reading processing and a management server. The image processing apparatus includes a unit configured to acquire data created by the image reading processing while a user logs in to a registration server communicable with the management server, and a unit configured to transmit the acquired data, wherein the management server includes a unit configured to receive the transmitted data and a unit configured to transmit the received data, and wherein the transmitted data is stored in a storage server communicable with the registration server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yu Tomioka
  • Patent number: 11720773
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes at least one processor configured to: acquire physical-property-value information of a recording medium; using information regarding a printing machine, perform an evaluation as to whether there is a possibility that the recording medium causes trouble for printing by the printing machine, the evaluation being performed with respect to at least one printing performance indicator based on the physical-property-value information; and output a result of the evaluation to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Mami Yokohashi, Kota Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11720770
    Abstract: Various embodiments illustrated herein disclose a method comprising rendering a buffer image from a first image data received for printing. Further, the method includes scaling the buffer image to generated scaled buffer image. Furthermore, the method includes determining a first location of a machine readable indicia in the scaled buffer image. Additionally, the method includes causing a print head to print the buffer image on a print media to generate a printed content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: HAND HELD PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Sze Ping Ching, Phek Thong Lee, Cheng Khoon Ng, Suraini Binte Saptu