Patents Examined by Neil R. McLean
  • Patent number: 11503170
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: a determination unit configured to determine a similar form similar to scanned image for each of a plurality of scanned images; and a display control unit configured to perform control such that a list of the plurality of scanned images is displayed on a display unit, wherein scanned images of which the determined similar form are same are displayed together in the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenta Inoue, Daijiro Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11496637
    Abstract: The image processing apparatus comprises a display unit 120 configured to display an operation screen and acquires information related to a job execution button included in the operation screen and acquires current status information of the image processing apparatus. Also, the image processing apparatus, based on the acquired information related to the execution button and status information, determines execution capability of the execution button. Furthermore, the image processing apparatus controls based on the determination result the display of each execution button included in the operation screen such that the execution capability status is recognizable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yusuke Mori
  • Patent number: 11488226
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to method and system for designing the formulated products. Conventional techniques for designing the formulated products, meeting final functional properties, are limited. Further, understanding user requirements and active incorporation of the user requirements during design phase is quite challenging. The present disclosure herein provides method and system that solve the technical problem of extracting the functional requirement by establishing continuous conversation with the user. An optimal prediction function for each functional requirement is determined by using a plurality of prediction models. An optimization technique along with an objective function is employed to determine optimized solutions comprising list of ingredients, possible concentration level of each ingredient, the process parameters, and the operating parameters for obtaining the desired formulation based on the user requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Limited Services
    Inventors: Santosh Vasant Daware, Rinu Chako, Deepak Shyamsunder Jain, Shankar Balajirao Kausley, Shally Gupta, Pallavi Bandi, Dharmendr Kumar, Beena Rai, Amit Bhowmik, Umesh Singh, Chetan Premkumar Malhotra, Purushottham Gautham Basavarsu
  • Patent number: 11482017
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to recognize transported passengers and goods are disclosed herein. One example includes an apparatus comprising a processor unit on a vehicular entity, a communication component coupled to the processor unit, and a memory portion associated to the processor unit and structured to store information and data received through the communication component about at least one of passengers, luggage and/or goods on the vehicular entity, with the communication component being activated by a presence of the at least one of the passengers, luggage and/or goods on the vehicular entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Alberto Troia, Antonino Mondello
  • Patent number: 11477335
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: executes processing corresponding to an instruction input via an external device; sends a first notification to the external device according to a completion of execution of the processing; and upon estimating that the execution of the processing is not completed before a timeout time, sends a second notification different from the first notification to the external device. The external device sets the timeout time for the first notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeo Katsuda, Yusuke Mikoshiba
  • Patent number: 11474756
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, a storage device stores a plurality of respective combinations of setting values set in jobs previously executed in relation to each of a plurality of predetermined functions, and a control device allows a display device to display at least one of respective first images representing the plurality of functions in a first region of a display area and display, in a second region of the display area, at least one of respective second images showing the plurality of combinations of setting values stored in the storage device and, upon acceptance of a touch gesture on one of the at least one second image through a touch panel of an operation device, executes, in accordance with the combination of setting values shown by the second image on which the touch gesture has been made, a job related to the function associated with the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Yumi Hirobe, Takashi Namii, Yoichi Hiranuma
  • Patent number: 11470215
    Abstract: A control device includes a processor and a first storage portion. The processor executes a control process based on data stored in a main memory. The first storage portion stores a first memory image related to the main memory after a process of starting-up an operating system by the processor is completed. The control device loads the first memory image into the main memory if the operating system is started up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Inagaki
  • Patent number: 11463594
    Abstract: To make it possible for a user to easily perform partial editing for an unsettled file name or the like being displayed on a UI screen of the image processing apparatus. An editing a UI screen that takes a character string selected by a user as a target is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenichi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 11461995
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for inspecting burrs of an electrode slice. The method may include: acquiring a to-be-inspected electrode slice image; and inputting the to-be-inspected electrode slice image into a pre-trained burr instance segmentation model to obtain inspection result for characterizing whether the electrode slice displayed in the to-be-inspected electrode slice image has burrs and contour of the burrs, where the burr instance segmentation model is used to characterize the corresponding relationship between the electrode slice image and the inspection result and contour information. The method may further include: and outputting, in response to the inspection result for characterizing that the electrode slice displayed in the to-be-inspected electrode slice image has burrs, prompt information for characterizing that the electrode slice displayed in the to-be-inspected electrode slice image has burrs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yawei Wen, Jiabing Leng, Minghao Liu, Jiangliang Guo, Xu Li
  • Patent number: 11463591
    Abstract: An electronic device includes circuitry. The circuitry controls a state transition between an operation ready state and a low power state, the low power state being a state whose standby power is lower than standby power of the operation ready state. The circuitry calculates a predicted time period required for the electronic device to transit to the low power state. The circuitry selects, from a plurality of device diagnoses, a particular device diagnosis whose execution is completed within the calculated predicted time period. The circuitry executes the selected particular device diagnosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuya Akiba, Ryu Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11436774
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for efficiently mapping a pattern, such as a fingerprint, from a set of multiple impressions of portions of that pattern. The system may evaluate images of patterns taken from a series of multiple impressions and map the pattern from the image portions while providing the operator with realtime feedback of a status of the set of images. As each new image portion is evaluated, a display graphic or other indicator provides feedback when a new image portion is added to the reconstructed image, or when a new image portion is not added (such as it representing a duplicate). Other status indications may be provided, and when the indication is visual, a degraded resolution of the pattern map may be provided on the display graphic to improve security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: IDEX Biometrics ASA
    Inventor: Roger A. Bauchspies
  • Patent number: 11429863
    Abstract: A learning method includes: acquiring input data and correct answer information, the input data including a set of multiple pieces of relationship data in which relationships between variables are recorded respectively; determining conversion rule corresponding to each of the multiple pieces of relationship data such that relationships before and after a conversion of a common variable commonly in the multiple pieces of relationship data are the same, when converting a variable value in each of the multiple pieces of relationship data into converted data rearranging the variable values in an order of input; converting each of the multiple pieces of relationship data into a multiple pieces of the converted data according to each corresponding conversion rule; and inputting a set of the multiple pieces of converted data to the neural network and causing the neural network to learn a learning model based on the correct answer information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsuru Matsuo, Koji Maruhashi
  • Patent number: 11430211
    Abstract: Method for creating by a user of a social media content represented as a message to be viewed in Augmented Reality. The invention presents a method of creation of social media content in association with a real-world object. With the use of this method, such social media content can be created by user, who is in proximity of a real-world object with which user wishes to associate with (add to) social media content, using a mobile device. The social media content thus created can be viewed by same user or other social media users by pointing a mobile device camera on the real-world object with which the social media content was associated with (added to). This is being achieved by implementing specific algorithm that uses Artificial Neural Network(s) for instant remembering, or identifying, visually distinctive real-world objects that had a social media content associated with (added to) it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Zest Reality Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Pavel Tiutiunnik, Andrey Logvinenko
  • Patent number: 11429321
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a plurality of imaging devices, and an information processing device. The information processing device includes a receiving unit configured to receive work process data indicating items of multiple work processes; a first image of a first form including first job ID information; and information indicating that multiple pieces are obtained from a first deliverable corresponding to the first form, in a first work process from among the multiple work processes. The information processing device includes a job-ID generating unit configured to generate a second job ID in which distinguishing information is added to a first job ID. The information processing device includes a color-code image generating unit configured to generate second color code data based on the second job ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kawasaki, Makoto Aoki
  • Patent number: 11416183
    Abstract: A control method executed in an image processing apparatus includes generating image data for outputting a printed material which is to be pasted onto a frame, selecting an image, arranging the selected image on at least a front surface area of the image data, specifying image processing to be executed in relation to a side surface area of the image data, and executing specific analysis processing on an area of a range in accordance with the specified image processing. A plurality of image processes includes image arrangement processing for arranging at least a portion of the selected image on the side surface area by enlarging the selected image, and in a case where the specified image processing is the image arrangement processing, the specific analysis processing is executed on the front surface area and the side surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Sho Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 11416707
    Abstract: An information processing method is executed by a computer, and includes: obtaining a first image generated by a multi-pinhole camera; extracting at least one point spread function (PSF) in each of a plurality of regions in the first image; obtaining a second image different from the first image, and reference data used in machine learning for the second image; generating a third image, by convolving each of a plurality of regions in the second image with at least one PSF extracted in a corresponding region of the plurality of regions in the first image; and outputting a pair of the reference data and the third image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Satoshi Sato, Yasunori Ishii, Ryota Fujimura, Pongsak Lasang, Changxin Zhou
  • Patent number: 11403837
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a character recognition unit, a storage unit, a display unit, and a reception unit. The character recognition unit is configured to recognize characters included in a plurality of pieces of image data. The storage unit is configured to perform control such that the plurality of pieces of image data is stored in a folder named with a character string including the characters recognized by the character recognition unit. The display unit is configured to display a screen. The reception unit is configured to receive a setting for a condition made by a user. In a case where the character string including the characters recognized by the character recognition unit does not satisfy the condition, the display unit displays a screen including information indicating image data in which the characters are recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Oya
  • Patent number: 11399113
    Abstract: Embodiment of systems and methods for the sending, delivery or receiving of faxes are disclosed herein. In particular, certain embodiments include a fax connector that may be deployed at users' sites, and a fax registration system that may be deployed remotely from these users' site. The fax connector can be accessed at a user's site over a computer based network in order to perform functions associated with faxing, including sending, receiving and obtaining status on faxes. The fax connector deployed at a sending user's site communicates with the fax registration system to obtain destination data associated with a recipient user's fax connector and transmits the fax to the destination fax connector over the computer based network based on the destination data obtained from the registration system. The fax can then be presented to the recipient at the recipient user's site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventor: Treber Rebert
  • Patent number: 11393234
    Abstract: In a case where setting of a file name is performed for a scanned image by using OCR processing results of the scanned image, it is made possible to perform OCR processing for text blocks having a strong possibility of being set as a file name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shun Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11388300
    Abstract: Provided is an appliance setting apparatus. If generating layout information indicating a layout of a screen of a client application program for providing, by an image forming apparatus, a function of a document processing flow execution system, when a flow execution button for executing a document processing flow is arranged in the layout, the appliance setting apparatus acquires a list of document processing flows from the document processing flow execution system, displays at least a part of the document processing flows included in the acquired list onto the display unit, associates the document processing flow selected via an operating unit from among the displayed workflows, with the flow execution button, and installs the generated layout information on the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Masato Hirota