Patents Examined by Marcellus Augustin
  • Patent number: 10284741
    Abstract: Provided is an image reading optical system including an image reading unit in which plural reading devices are arranged in a first direction, and plural image-forming mirrors that guide reflected light, which is acquired by reflecting light from a light source in a reading target, to the image reading unit, wherein any one of the plural image-forming mirrors is an adjustment mirror that has power only in one of the first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction, and is rotatable or relatively movable with respect to the other image-forming mirrors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Hachisuga, Kiyofumi Aikawa, Takashi Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 10277780
    Abstract: There provided is a client device including a first change unit for changing authentication information from individual authentication information to common authentication information, which is authentication information commonly used by each client device, in a case where a transmission of first operation information is failed due to an authentication error, and a second transmission unit for transmitting second operation information to the server device by using the common authentication information changed by the first change unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuichi Kurahashi
  • Patent number: 10244138
    Abstract: A content processing apparatus includes a content processing device, a controller and an apparatus memory storing therein a program including an analysis module, a first obtaining module and a second obtaining module. The analysis module causes the apparatus to perform an extraction processing, a first determination processing, a first obtaining processing, a second obtaining processing, a second determination processing, a display processing, a reception processing and an operation instruction processing. The first obtaining module causes the content processing apparatus to perform a transmission processing, a reception processing and a first transfer processing. The second obtaining module causes the content processing apparatus to perform an obtaining processing and a second transfer processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Okuno
  • Patent number: 10228889
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that performs print processing based on a job includes a reception unit configured to receive an operation performed by a user, a change unit configured to, in response to the reception unit receiving a predetermined operation, change a job on which the print processing is not yet completed to a suspended state, and a job control unit configured to, when detecting a logout event that causes a user who is logged into the image processing apparatus to log out of the image processing apparatus, resume at least one job and cancel a job or jobs that are not resumed by the job control unit selected from jobs changed by the change unit to be in the suspended state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Kanematsu, Keisuke Aizono
  • Patent number: 10223048
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which eliminates a need for a user to operate a mobile terminal each time he or she sends an image file from the image forming apparatus using a cloud service and therefore enhances ease of operation. First user authentication of the user is performed for the image forming apparatus. Image data read from a scanner is converted to an image file, which in turn is sent to a destination set on a transmission destination setting screen. Based on the authenticated user, an access token to be used is selected from at least one access token managed in a hard disk of the image forming apparatus so as to use a function of an external server. Second user authentication for the external server is performed using the selected access token. After that, the image file is sent using the function of the external server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Tonegawa
  • Patent number: 10225435
    Abstract: A communication system comprising an information processing apparatus and a mobile terminal, wherein when the mobile terminal receives a packet transmitted from the information processing apparatus, it determines whether or not a login condition for transmitting a login request is satisfied based on a received signal strength of the packet, and it transmits the login request to the information processing apparatus in a case where it determines that the login condition is satisfied, and does not transmit the login request to the information processing apparatus in a case where it is determines that the login condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hosoda, Fumio Mikami, Hiroki Matsushima, Yukimasa Sato, Kyohei Takeda, Tomoko Adachi
  • Patent number: 10216462
    Abstract: The display device includes a mode shift control unit, a storage control unit, and a display control unit. The mode shift control unit performs such control that if a first condition is satisfied in a first mode, a display screen is not displayed and the first mode shifts to a second mode, and that if a second condition is satisfied in the second mode, the display screen is displayed and the second mode shifts to the first mode. The display control unit performs such control that when the second mode shifts to the first mode by the mode shift control unit, as information displayed on the display screen, an entry of the first setting stored in the storage section is displayed for the first setting and an entry of an initial setting is displayed for the second setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Ken Nishio
  • Patent number: 10218876
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a first interface that performs wireless communication which is relayed through a base station and a second interface that performs wireless communication which is not relayed through a base station, and the information processing apparatus allows the wireless communication by the second interface to start under a condition that the wireless communication by the first interface has been started so that it is possible to set the same frequency channel used in the two types of wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masato Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 10210870
    Abstract: Systems and methods for analyzing digital recordings of the human voice in order to find characteristics unique to an individual. A biometrics engine may use an analytics service in a contact center to supply audio streams based on configured rules and providers for biometric detection. The analytics service may provide call audio data and attributes to connected engines based on a provider-set of selection rules. The connected providers send call audio data and attributes through the analytics service. The engines are notified when a new call is available for processing and can then retrieve chunks of audio data and call attributes by polling an analytics service interface. A mathematical model of the human vocal tract in the call audio data is created and/or matched against existing models. The result is analogous to a fingerprint, i.e., a pattern unique to an individual to within some level of probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: VERINT AMERICAS INC.
    Inventors: Jamie Richard Williams, Robert John Barnes, Ian Linsdell, Scott M. Bluman
  • Patent number: 10205848
    Abstract: A printing apparatus of the present invention makes wireless LAN connection in at least either one of a first connection mode for making wireless LAN connection to an image processing apparatus in which inherent authentication information is stored and a second connection mode for making wireless LAN connection to the image processing apparatus via a second access point provided by an apparatus other than the printing device and the image processing apparatus. The printing apparatus controls, in a case of connection in the first connection mode, a first function provided by the printing apparatus to be enabled and a second function which is enabled in the second connection mode to be disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Arata Miyagi
  • Patent number: 10205852
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first storage that stores user information about one or more users of the information processing system; a second storage; a first determining unit that determines, depending on whether a program sets the second storage to store predetermined user information from the user information stored in the first storage, the predetermined user information being used in the program, whether to store the predetermined user information in the second storage; and a user information process unit that obtains the predetermined user information from the user information and stores the predetermined user information in the second storage if the first determining unit determines that the predetermined user information is to be stored in the second storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Nagata
  • Patent number: 10187550
    Abstract: An image forming method includes: receiving a print job and a print job ticket by at least one image forming apparatus; waiting for an access from a mobile terminal having user ID data using a wireless communication; authenticating for accessing the print job ticket using the user ID data by the image forming apparatus determined to be closest to the mobile terminal; transferring the print job ticket to the closest image forming apparatus in response to the access from the mobile terminal to the closest image forming apparatus; acquiring a facial image of a user in front of the closest image forming apparatus in response to the authentication; recognizing a face of an owner of the print job ticket in the acquired facial image to cause the closest image forming apparatus to print the image data; and printing the image data while the facial image is being recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Naohiko Kosaka
  • Patent number: 10180815
    Abstract: Systems and method for variable data printing are provided. A composition system can receive a variable data printing job and can determine a plurality of subjobs. The composition system can determine a plurality of variable data print streams are determined. The composition system can transmit the plurality of variable data print streams and an indicator to expect a transmission of the plurality of variable data printing streams. The RIP can be configured to receive the indicator and the plurality of variable data printing streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: XMPIE (ISRAEL) LTD.
    Inventors: Jacob Aizikowitz, Zvika Leybovich, Hanan Weisman, Hadas Groisman, Amit Cohen
  • Patent number: 10182179
    Abstract: An image forming method includes: sending a print job and a print job ticket including user ID data from a terminal to an image forming apparatus and sending the print job ticket to a mobile terminal; receiving the print job ticket by the image forming apparatus; waiting for an access from a mobile terminal having the user ID data using a wireless communication in a specified range from the image forming apparatus; authenticating for accessing the print job ticket in the image forming apparatus using the user ID data; acquiring a facial image of a user in front of the image forming apparatus in response to the authentication; recognizing a face of an owner of the print job ticket in the acquired facial image to cause the image forming apparatus to print the image data; and printing the image data while the facial image is being recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Naohiko Kosaka
  • Patent number: 10171705
    Abstract: A management apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus for managing usage of the image forming apparatus is disclosed. The management apparatus includes a user data storage part for storing user identification data and use restriction data corresponding to the user identification data, and a use restriction data acquiring part for acquiring the use restriction data corresponding to the user identification data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakagami, Naoto Sakurai, Daiya Miyasaka, Koji Sasaki, Tomoko Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 10171700
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes an image reading unit, a mounting portion, and a cover member. The cover member includes a first restricting portion, a lock portion, and an operation portion. The operation portion operated from outside the main unit is displaceable in a direction in which the lock portion deforms from the locking shape into the releasing shape. The mounting portion includes a second restricting portion and a part. The second restricting portion restricts displacement of the operation portion in the cover member mounted on the mounting portion in the second orientation. The part has a second aperture opening into the lock portion in the cover member mounted on the mounting portion in the second orientation from outside the main unit. The second aperture is an opening for the insertion of a tool for deforming the lock portion from the locking shape into the releasing shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshihiko Kurotsu
  • Patent number: 10162587
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions which causes an information processing terminal to transmit first request information requesting an image processing apparatus to transmit first information, receive the first information, as a response to the first request information, from the image processing apparatus, determine whether a set value of the received first information is the first value or the second value. When the first information is set to the first value, the instructions further cause the information processing terminal to transmit second request information requesting the image processing apparatus to transmit the second information, and receive the second information, as a response to the second request information, from the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10154162
    Abstract: In a mobile terminal, a plurality of operating buttons associated with functions performable by an electronic apparatus are provided on an operation screen. A storage section previously stores correspondence information related to the functions performable by the electronic apparatus and indicating correspondence between a relative location between the mobile terminal and the electronic apparatus and a set of functions available depending on the relative location. A first control section allows a display section to display a setting screen for accepting a change in the correspondence information. Based on an operation accepted by an acceptance section on the setting screen, a second control section changes the correspondence information and allows a storage section to store the changed correspondence information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Kanamaru
  • Patent number: 10140075
    Abstract: A computer generated method disclosed. The method includes examining a print job data stream spooled in a spooled print production file, identifying one or more white space regions within documents in the print production file and inserting content into each of the white space regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Scott D. Mastie, Craig D. Brossman
  • Patent number: 10136002
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to cloud-based document quality assurance. One example embodiment includes a method for evaluating document quality. The method includes receiving, by a cloud server, document data associated with an image forming device. The method also includes accessing, by the cloud server, a cloud service. Further, the method includes performing, by the cloud service, a data-segment comparison between the document data and reference document data from a quality assurance database. In addition, the method includes generating, by the cloud service, a quality assurance report based on the data-segment comparison between the document data and the reference document data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Hui Wang, Leonard Cayetano