Patents Examined by Fan Zhang
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Patent number: 10678488Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for dynamically splitting print jobs to reduce the time taken to start printing those jobs, allowing those jobs to be printed on a wider range of printers more efficiently. One embodiment includes a print server with an interface that is able to receive a Portable Document Format (PDF) print job. The print server also includes a job controller that divides the PDF print job into segments. Dividing the PDF print job includes determining a segment size comprising a number of the logical pages to include in each segment, based on the memory footprint for the logical pages. Dividing the PDF print job also includes generating multiple segments, populating each of the segments with logical pages from the PDF print job based on the segment size, and populating each of the segments with a page tree. The job controller transmits the segments to a printer.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Gerald Donald Boldt, Michael Glen Lotz, Jeffrey Alan Sikkink, Joseph Wayne Stradling, Marquis G. Waller
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Patent number: 10678489Abstract: An example method is provided in accordance with the present disclosure, which may be used for example for aggregating print jobs on a web of print medium for frame by frame printing. The example method comprises imposing several print jobs, each comprising patterns to be printed, on the web of print medium, in at least two parallel lanes in the longitudinal direction of the web of print medium, wherein the patterns imposed in each frame are whole patterns, a starting point for the imposition of patterns in each lane and each frame depends on an end point of the imposed patterns in the same lane in the previous frame, and a frame rewind distance is determined for each frame whereby, when printing on the web of print medium, the starting point of each lane in one frame comes to be adjacent to the end point of the lane in the previous frame.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2016Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: HP Indigo B.V.Inventors: Amir Gaash, Lior Krasnovsky, Adam Lahav
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Patent number: 10666831Abstract: Example implementations relate to substrate permeability assessment. Some examples may determine whether voids are shown in an image of a substrate and whether there is a repeating pattern in the image. Some examples may also determine whether printing fluid would pass through the substrate during printing based on the determinations of whether voids are shown in the image and whether there is a repeating pattern in the image.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Carlos Felip, Xavier Domingo Reguant, Oriol Moliner Rafa
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Patent number: 10649382Abstract: A control apparatus includes a processor and a memory to control a system having an image forming apparatus and a sheet discharge apparatus. Executing a memory store program causes the control apparatus to receive configuration information of the system and generate a system configuration image, receive stacking state information and generate a sheet bundle image, display a screen, receive job identification information of an image forming job of sheets to be picked up, and display a thumbnail image. The stacking state information includes a stacking amount of sheets stacked on a sheet stacking tray. The sheet bundle image represents the sheets stacked on a sheet stacking tray based on the stacking state information. The system configuration image and the sheet bundle image are combined in the screen. The thumbnail image is based on receiving the job identification information.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toru Shinnae, Jerome Guermont, Nobuaki Miyahara, Ryo Fujita, Yoshitaka Oba
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Patent number: 10642552Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions realizing a printer driver causing, when executed, a controller to output driver-executable information indicating a driver-executable drawing process executable by the printer driver designatable by an operating system to the operating system.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazutaka Yamada
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Patent number: 10628112Abstract: An array of adjacent panels forms a display sign. Each panel has a frame that holds a display sheet showing a cellular portion of the sign. The display sheet covers a front of the frame. A border of the display sheet wraps around the sides of the frame and is trapped in a backside channel in each side member of the frame. Retainers pushed into the channel trap the border in the channel. Each frame may be quickly attached and released from a respective base attached to a wall or other support structure, allowing quick changes to all portions or selected portions of the sign. A mobile app may be provided that configures the sign in a camera image of the support structure, divides the sign into panels, and generates printer output in a selected printer page size for each panel, including the border.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Wall Yak, LLCInventor: Tom L. Hofmeister
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Patent number: 10630850Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a document reading unit 110 allowing input of image data generated from a read document, a paper feed unit 140 containing recording paper, an image forming unit 120 forming an image on the recording paper based on the image data, and a touch-panel display 132 displaying a preview image representing a state of image formation. The touch-panel display displays a preview image in a designated orientation for a document of a prescribed size, and displays a preview image in accordance with size and orientation of recording paper fed from the paper feed unit, for a document not of the prescribed size. Thus, for documents of a prescribed size, preview images in a prescribed orientation can be displayed regardless of the direction of arrangement of the recording paper, and easier confirmation of expected finish of the formed image becomes possible.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinsaku Tohki, Kumiko Ogino, Toshihiro Shoji
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Patent number: 10613803Abstract: Systems and methods relating generally to on-demand printing are disclosed. In such a system, a client device has an ordering application. A mothership has a container vending machine, a container loader, a printer, an unmanned aerial vehicle (“drone”), and a communications server. The communications server is in communication with a network and configured to receive a print order from the ordering application via the network. The communications server is in communication with the printer to provide a print job to the printer responsive to the print order. The printer is configured to generate and provide a printed result for the print job into a container. The drone is configured to obtain and hold the container for airborne delivery of the printed result to an address associated with the print order.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Dilinur Wushour, Jacek Joseph Matysiak
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Patent number: 10594893Abstract: There is provided a scanner that combines images read by a first sensor array and a second sensor array, in which the first sensor array and the second sensor array have read regions which are overlapped partially, and includes a combining section that deforms and combines an image in a region read in an overlapped manner in a main scanning direction in at least any one of a first read image read by the first sensor array and a second read image read by the second sensor array.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kiyoharu Momose
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Patent number: 10564905Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image data generator, a conveyor conveying a print medium, a determiner, a print medium cutter, a printing section, and a printing controller. The image data generator performs, sequentially on a page basis, conversion of print data corresponding to pages included in a print job into image data. The determiner determines a specified number of pages. The print medium cutter cuts the print medium into media for each of the specified number of pages. The printing section performs, on the print medium, printing of an image-data-based image. The printing controller causes the printing section to start the printing of the image corresponding at least to the specified number of pages, after the conversion of the print data into the image data corresponding at least to the specified number of pages and before that into the image data corresponding to all of pages.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Oki Data CorporationInventor: Akihiro Honda
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Patent number: 10558899Abstract: A wireless IC tag (11) is mounted to a toner cartridge (1), and a reader writer (2) reads and writes data from and to the wireless IC tag (11). The toner cartridge (1) includes plural cartridge contact terminals (12), and a load (13) arranged between the cartridge contact terminals (12). The load (13) corresponds to a type of the wireless IC tag (11). The reader writer (2) includes an antenna coil (21) for wireless communication with the wireless IC tag (11), and plural reader writer contact terminals (22) that contact to the plural cartridge contact terminals (12) respectively when the toner cartridge (1) is mounted to this image forming apparatus. Further, a wireless transmission characteristic of the reader writer (2) is adjusted in accordance with the load (13) electronically connected to the reader writer contact terminals (22).Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Ryo Takayama
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Patent number: 10558404Abstract: A printing apparatus manages the number of communications for printing requests to prevent the number of communications using the predetermined protocol from reaching an upper limit, in a case where a print job is received by using a predetermined protocol.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shigeto Sakai
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Patent number: 10552717Abstract: An image processing apparatus uses a first rendering processor that performs rendering of a first area within a page based on print data and a second rendering processor that performs rendering of a second area within the page based on the print data. The image processing apparatus includes a controller, having a processor which executes instructions stored in a memory or having circuitry, being configured to acquire image data arranged across the first area and the second area based on the print data, cause the first rendering processor having accessed the image data to acquire all pixels of the image data and to perform rendering with pixels within the first area of all the pixels of the image data, and cause the second rendering processor having accessed the image data to acquire all the pixels of the image data and to perform rendering with pixels within the second area of all the pixels of the image data.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tatsunori Suzuki
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Patent number: 10506123Abstract: Provided is technology reducing the capacity required to store actual parameter information by establishing conditions enabling providing actual parameter information to the device that uses the actual parameter information. A control device 5 has label information storage 321 storing label information relationally to combinations of printer 3 models and print media; and actual content storage 322 storing, relationally to the label information, actual parameter information that is used by printers 3 to print to print media. When a combination of printer 3 model and print medium is identified and actual parameter information corresponding to that combination is requested, the control device 5 references the label information storage 321, identifies the label information corresponding to that combination, and acquires actual parameter information from the actual content storage 322 based on the identified label information.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kohei Iwamoto, Masahiko Hirasawa
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Patent number: 10496337Abstract: An information processing device includes a memory to store a print job to be executed with an image forming apparatus and a specific printing rule, and circuitry. The circuitry acquires from an external device the specific printing rule according to a specific condition. The acquired specific printing rule is stored in the memory. The external device stores printing rules including the specific printing rule. Each printing rule defines at least a part of printing settings applied in executing the print job. The circuitry acquires from the memory the specific printing rule according to an attribute of printing associated with the print job in executing the print job, and executes the printing job while applying the acquired specific printing rule.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Shinya Mori
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Patent number: 10440221Abstract: A system of tracking a location of a print device in an environment. For each of one or more users of a print device during a time period, the system identifies an event that is initiated at the print device over a network where the event is associated with the user and a print job, and determines whether the user is registered with the location tracking system. In response to determining that the user is registered with the location tracking system, the system determines a login location of the user, determines whether the login location is current, and in response to determining that the login location is current, stores the one or more location coordinates in a data store such that they are associated with the print device. The system estimates a location of the print device, and provides the location of the print device to an asset management system.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Fritz Francis Ebner
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Patent number: 10430133Abstract: An image forming system includes: a server accepting a print job from a client apparatus; and an image forming apparatus receiving an order for the print job from the server, the image forming apparatus including: a sheet feeding tray accommodating a sheet; a hardware processor determining to receive an order for a print job accepted by the server when a first and second conditions are satisfied; and an image former forming a page image based on the print job accepted by the server and a page image based on the print job being accepted specifying the sheet of the same size as that of the sheet specified, by allocating the page images in parallel to the sheet of twice the size of the sheet specified, when it is determined by the hardware processor that the order for the print job accepted by the server is received.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Yoshifumi Wagatsuma
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Patent number: 10425548Abstract: A multi-function print server administration service implemented on a server computer receives a request, by a user associated with either a vendor-administrator user account or a system administrator account, to modify a first set of one or more application services enabled on one or more multi-function print devices associated with the vendor-administrator user account. In response to receiving the requests, the multi-function print server generates a modified first set of one or more application services, which implements a modification to the one or more application services based on the received request to modify the first set of one or more application services. The multi-function print server administration service enables the modified first set of one or more application services on the one or more multi-function print devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Jayasimha Nuggehalli, Bhushan Nadkarni, Srikrishan Narasimhan, Zhenyu Lu
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Patent number: 10412240Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a document reading unit 110 allowing input of image data generated from a read document, a paper feed unit 140 containing recording paper, an image forming unit 120 forming an image on the recording paper based on the image data, and a touch-panel display 132 displaying a preview image representing a state of image formation. The touch-panel display displays a preview image in a designated orientation for a document of a prescribed size, and displays a preview image in accordance with size and orientation of recording paper fed from the paper feed unit, for a document not of the prescribed size. Thus, for documents of a prescribed size, preview images in a prescribed orientation can be displayed regardless of the direction of arrangement of the recording paper, and easier confirmation of expected finish of the formed image becomes possible.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinsaku Tohki, Kumiko Ogino, Toshihiro Shoji
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Patent number: 10399801Abstract: A medium transport device includes a base frame which includes an outer edge forming portion which configures an outer edge of a device top surface, a medium support tray which is capable of switching between a horizontal posture, and a sub-tray which is capable of being displaced between a storage position and a pulled-out position, and supports the medium at the pulled-out position, in which the sub-tray includes a convex portion which configures a portion of the flat device top surface together at the storage position, and in which the sub-tray is capable of being displaced along a direction that is parallel to the device top surface in a state in which the medium support tray takes the horizontal posture.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Katsumi Yamada, Kohei Kozaki, Shintaro Miyamoto