Patents Examined by Mark R. Milia
  • Patent number: 11622058
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a power source, a power monitoring unit configured to monitor an output voltage output from the power source, an acceptance unit configured to accept a user operation to turn off the electronic apparatus, and an execution unit configured to operate using power output from the power source, execute shutdown processing in response to the user operation accepted through the acceptance unit, and execute the shutdown processing when the output voltage monitored by the power monitoring unit is lower than a threshold voltage. The threshold voltage is higher than a guaranteed operation voltage of the execution unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuhiko Okuma
  • Patent number: 11614910
    Abstract: A web conference system is provided whereby a second apparatus transmits first information indicating whether a printer is connected to a second apparatus or second information indicating setting related to the printer connected to the second apparatus to a server. The server transmits the first information or the second information to a first apparatus. The first apparatus displays printer information about the printer connected to the second apparatus on a display screen based on the first information or the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Abe, Atsushi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11609719
    Abstract: An inspection system according to the present invention includes: an abnormality detector that performs automatic inspection for detecting an abnormality on the basis of a read image obtained by causing a reader to read an image that is formed on a recording medium by executing a print job; and a hardware processor that, when the abnormality is detected in the automatic inspection, causes the reader to perform specific shading operation involving cleaning the reader after stopping the print job but before restarting the print job, wherein the specific shading operation is performed in a shorter time than normal shading operation involving cleaning the reader, the normal shading operation being performed except when the abnormality is detected in the automatic inspection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11595534
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, for transmitting data to an external apparatus via a plurality of different communication interfaces, includes at least one memory that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the instructions to provide accepting a setting of a routing path, based on a user operation, and to provide restricting a routing path indicating a default route from being set through the accepting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11580340
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions configured to, when executed by a processor of an electronic device, cause the electronic device to display on a screen of a display an object for receiving an instruction to cause the electronic device to perform a specific operation including controlling an image processing device, obtain a position of the object in the screen, obtain a position of the indicator based on output signals from a millimeter wave radar, determine whether the position of the indicator is within a particular range relative to the position of the object, and when determining that the position of the indicator is within the particular range, transmit to the image processing device a preliminary operation command instructing the image processing device to start a preliminary operation to shorten a time required to complete the specific operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo Yasui
  • Patent number: 11570319
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus for a display that is configured to display at least one of a foreground or a background includes a display control unit and a determining unit. The display control unit configured to cause the display to display, in the foreground, a first screen corresponding to a first input by a user. The display control unit is also configured to cause the display to display, in the background, a second screen corresponding to a home screen of the user. The display control unit is also configured to cause in response to receiving a clear input from the user, the display to display, in the foreground, the second screen and display, in the background, the second screen separately from the second screen displayed in the foreground. The determining unit is configured to determine a first duration that a third screen is displayed in the foreground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takuya Nishigaki
  • Patent number: 11561749
    Abstract: A print system includes a print job generating device including a print job generating section configured to generate a print job including ink color information indicating ink colors to be used in printing and raster image data for each of the ink colors, and a transmission section configured to transmit the generated print job to an image forming device, and an image forming device including a reception section configured to receive a print job transmitted from the transmission section, a processing section configured to determine ink colors to be used in printing and ink colors not to be used in printing based on the ink color information included in the print job, and a display controller configured to display preview images indicated by the raster image data of the ink colors to be used in printing in a display section based on a result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Mukai, Fumio Tokutomi
  • Patent number: 11539855
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, an operation section, storage, and a controller. The image forming section forms a document image on a recording medium. The operation section includes a touch panel. The storage stores image data therein. The controller: converts document image data to two-dimensional barcode image data; randomly determines a position and an orientation of a two-dimensional barcode image to be located in a document image; stores to the storage the two-dimensional barcode image data together with information on the position and the orientation that are determined by the controller; and causes, only when a correct answer about the information on the position and the orientation is received from a user through the touch panel, preview display of the document image through converting the two-dimensional barcode image data back to the document image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Ryuichi Nitta
  • Patent number: 11528374
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a setting unit, a displaying unit, a receiving unit, and a printing unit. The setting unit accepts designation of source information from a user and set the accepted source information in association with an object. The displaying unit displays the object. The receiving unit receives image data from an external apparatus. The printing unit prints an image on a sheet based on the image data received by the receiving unit. Upon selection of the object displayed on the displaying unit, the printing unit prints an image on a sheet based on the image data from among the image data received by the receiving unit, that is received from an external apparatus having source information corresponding to the source information associated with the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Takeshi Kogure, Hiroaki Koike
  • Patent number: 11528368
    Abstract: A method for an information processing apparatus searching for an image-processing device is provided. The method includes receiving a predetermined beacon transmitted from an image processing device, identifying an image processing device satisfying a predetermined condition based on the predetermined beacon among one or more image processing devices corresponding to the received predetermined beacon and issuing a request for a server certificate only to a identified device satisfying a predetermined condition about a position among one or more image processing devices found in a search by Bluetooth®.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shukei Kurihara
  • Patent number: 11526317
    Abstract: An embedded digital front end (DFE) of a printing device receives print jobs of documents from client devices. The print jobs are placed in a job queue within the DFE. Along with a received print job, the DFE also receives a graphic file corresponding to the print job. The graphic file is stored in a data storage on the DFE. The DFE provides the graphic file to a user interface connected to the DFE, to represent the print job. The user interface allows modifications be made to the job queue using the graphic files for the print jobs. Further, a client device connects to the user interface to modify the print order within the job queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Javier A. Morales
  • Patent number: 11483448
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main body memory, and a controller. A second upper limit information stored in the main body memory indicates an upper limit of a printable page number that the image forming apparatus is allowed to print in a state where the image forming apparatus is in an off-line state. A printed page number information stored in the main body memory indicates a printed page number printed in the off-line state. The controller is configured to: increment the printed page number information by one in a case where the one sheet of paper is printed on one side printing; and increment the printed page number information by two in a case where the one sheet is printed on double-sided printing. The controller is configured to determine whether the printed page number information is greater than or equal to the second upper limit page number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takatsugu Yamada
  • Patent number: 11477337
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a feed roller configured to feed a document, a transport roller disposed downstream of the feed roller and configured to transport the document downstream; a transport motor being a drive source of the transport roller; a reading unit disposed downstream of the transport roller and configured to read the document; and a control unit configured to control the reading unit and the transport motor, wherein the control unit is configured to obtain information on a document type and an inclination detection reference value for an inclination of image data set in accordance with the document type and obtained from the reading unit, and when the inclination of the image data exceeds the inclination detection reference value in accordance with the document type, the control unit stops the transport motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiromichi Kitsuki
  • Patent number: 11461060
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable program instructions executable by a processor connected with an information processing device including a communication interface. The program instructions are configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive status information transmitted by a printer, via the communication interface, the status information including usage information regarding use of a particular member that deteriorates with use of the printer, generate notification information based on the usage information included in the received status information, the notification information including at least one of information representing that the particular member needs to be replaced or maintained and information representing that the printer needs to be replaced, and transmit the generated notification information to a device other than the printer via the communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoto Shiraga
  • Patent number: 11431859
    Abstract: Systems and methods relate generally to a document processing device. In an example method thereof, a document processing device is provided having a touch screen panel and configurable for touchless execution of a job. The job is performed with the document processing device with the touchless execution. The touchless execution includes: accessing a slide presentation mode; displaying a sequence of slides on the touch screen panel in the slide presentation mode; detecting paper accessible by a detection sensor of the document processing device; stopping at a slide of the sequence of slides responsive to a detection event of the detection sensor; pausing at the slide responsive to the detection event; and executing the job with the touchless execution responsive to persistence of the detection event by the detection sensor for a set duration during the pause.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Klyve-Orsy Ortiz Bantug
  • Patent number: 11431860
    Abstract: At the time of registering an image in units of documents, which is obtained by performing multi-cropping processing for a scanned image, and value information extracted from each image in a database in association with each other, there is a case where it is not possible to extract the value information successfully because of an overlap between documents during a scan. In a case where this fact is noticed after registration, it becomes necessary for a user to perform the entire work from the beginning. In a case where there is a possibility that the value information is hidden by an overlap between documents during a scan or the like, a display is produced for prompting a user to scan the document again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keisuke Ito
  • Patent number: 11416722
    Abstract: A recording control device that controls a recording device that discharges a dot to perform recording includes an edge detection unit configured to detect an edge of an image represented by image data, and a recording control unit configured to generate dot data specifying the dot based on the image data and to cause the recording device to perform recording based on the dot data. The recording control unit causes an internal region, located on an inner side of an edge region including the edge of the image, to be recorded using a dot having a smaller size than that of a dot used for recording of the edge region, or to be dot-off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Usui, Naoki Sudo, Yasutoshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11405519
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit, a determination unit, a power mode setting unit, an input process unit, and a registration unit. The communication unit receives a communication packet. The determination unit determines whether the communication packet received by the communication unit in a second power mode of first and the second power modes meets at least one of a plurality of determination conditions included in determination condition information. The second power mode is lower in electric power consumption than the first power mode. The power mode setting unit switches a power mode from the second power mode to the first power mode on the basis of a result of determination performed by the determination unit. The input process unit receives user operation. The registration unit registers the determination conditions in the determination condition information on the basis of the user operation received by the input process unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventors: Ayumi Taguchi, Tsutomu Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 11405523
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit that executes a printing operation to print an image on a recording sheet, a HDD in which first authentication information for identifying a user is stored in advance, an operation device for receiving information inputted, and a control device. The control device causes the printing unit to print, on the recording sheet, a first status page including first information related to a charge arising from execution of the printing operation, when an instruction to print a status page indicating a printing status by the printing unit has been received, and the authentication information received through the operation device and the first authentication information stored in the HDD in advance have been accorded with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Kosuke Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11392331
    Abstract: Provided is a print processing device including a processor configured to: use paper information including at least information of remaining amounts of a plural stack of continuous paper as information of the continuous paper and print processing information including information of print processes; and display information of at least one of executable print processes that are executable based on paper information of specific continuous paper including information of a remaining amount of the specific continuous paper among the plural stacks of continuous paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shogo Ishikawa, Megumi Yamaguchi, Daisuke Noguchi, Masatake Kawabe, Shingo Tajima, Bo Liu, Takashi Kikumoto