Patents Examined by Nicholas Pachol
  • Patent number: 11611670
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions configured to, when executed by a processor of an information processing device, cause the information processing device to obtain image data of an image processing screen image regarding an image processing function from the image processing device and control the display to display the image processing screen image, when transmitting an image data request to the image processing device while an image processing input screen is displayed on the display, and obtain image data of a non-image processing screen image regarding a non-image processing function from the image processing device and control the display to display the non-image processing screen image, when transmitting an image data request to the image processing device while a non-image processing input screen is displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobukazu Kodera
  • Patent number: 11601567
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to control a status, between read and unread, of a document received by facsimile from a sender apparatus. The circuitry controls display of a proposal screen for proposing that a sender facsimile number satisfying a predetermined condition be registered as a rejected facsimile number. A facsimile from the rejected facsimile number is to be rejected or deleted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsuroh Akabane
  • Patent number: 11579824
    Abstract: A function executing device may send screen display information to a terminal device via a first wireless interface without executing, via the first wireless interface, communication using specific authentication information, wherein the screen display information is for causing the terminal device to display a function screen. In a case where a first execution instruction for causing the function executing device to execute a first function is inputted to the terminal device after a function screen has been displayed in the terminal device, the function executing device may execute the communication using the specific authentication information with the terminal device via the first wireless interface and execute communication of first function execution information for executing the first function via the first wireless interface with the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka Asakura, Takuya Inoue
  • Patent number: 11575799
    Abstract: In a case where a user adds or deletes a separator to or from an automatically generated file name or the like, it is made possible to automatically generate a file reflecting the presence/absence of a separator at the time of transforming a scanned image of a document of the same kind into a file from next time. In a case where a document similar to a document scanned in the past is scanned, based on results of learning including the presence/absence of a separator, a property for a document scanned this time is generated automatically and presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirofumi Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11575802
    Abstract: A communication apparatus may perform: communicating a wireless setting value with a printer via a first wireless communication interface, establishing the wireless connection with the printer via a second wireless communication interface using the wireless setting value; sending first image data representing a first image of a print target to the printer via the second wireless communication interface using the wireless connection; determining, after the first image data is sent to the printer, whether an apparatus-side disconnection condition is satisfied; disconnecting the wireless connection when it is determined that the apparatus-side disconnection condition is satisfied; and sending, when it is determined that the apparatus-side disconnection condition is not satisfied, second image data representing a second image of a print target to the printer via the second wireless communication interface using the wireless connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuki Ichikawa, Takanobu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11560279
    Abstract: A method comprises obtaining a training dataset, the training dataset comprising sheet passage interval information associated with conveyance of a plurality of sheets in a sheet conveyance path of a training sheet processing apparatus, at least a portion of the sheets of the plurality of sheets having a known sheet classification of a set of sheet classifications; obtaining sheet timing data associated with the classifying, the sheet timing data comprising sheet passage interval information associated with conveyance of a predetermined number of sheets in the sheet conveyance path of a deployed sheet processing apparatus; classifying, using a machine learning model and the training dataset and the sheet timing data, for each interval window of a plurality of different interval windows, a predetermined number of sheets in a sheet conveyance path of a deployed sheet processing apparatus as a particular classification of the set of sheet classifications; and adjusting, based on the classifying, one or more oper
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yuka Matsukawa
  • Patent number: 11553100
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of fax communication and a method of controlling the image processing apparatus are described. The image processing apparatus has a user interface capable of accepting from a user, in advance of receiving by a network interface a shutdown request, a setting of whether or not to perform shutdown processing based on the received shutdown request when the image processing apparatus is in a state of being connected to a fax line and when fax communication is possible. The image processing apparatus executes, in accordance with the setting accepted in advance from the user by the user interface, the shutdown processing of the image processing apparatus based on the shutdown request received from the external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 11539851
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a control unit configured to switch a power state among a first power state, a second power state, and a third power state, the first power state being a state where a device driver is loaded and a device is usable, the second power state being a state where the device driver is unloaded and the device is unusable, the third power state being a state where the device driver is unloaded and the device is unusable, power consumption in the third power state being less than power consumption in the second power state. Based on reception of a predetermined signal in a case where the information processing apparatus is in the third power state, the control unit causes the power state to transition from the third power state to the second power state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi Hikichi
  • Patent number: 11531502
    Abstract: A supporting program stores, in a memory, a parameter list in which identification information of a print queue implemented in an OS and print parameters are associated with each other. In the OS, a plurality of print queues for a single printer can be implemented. When one of the plurality of print queues is selected and a general-use printing program receives a printing instruction to cause the printer to perform printing, the supporting program is activated. When a printing instruction is received while one of the plurality of print queues being selected, the supporting program reads out a print parameter corresponding to the selected print queue and sets the read out print parameter as a print parameter used for printing in accordance with the printing instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshito Hosomizo
  • Patent number: 11523023
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus includes a communication interface that transmits data according to a transmission job, and a controller having one or more processors which executes instructions stored in one or more memories. The controller is configured to set a setting of outputting of a transmission report indicating a transmission result of the transmission job as a device setting of the apparatus, set the setting of outputting of the transmission report as a setting of the transmission job, and set whether or not to accept the setting of outputting of the transmission report of the transmission job as the device setting of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Morita
  • Patent number: 11516366
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read an original, a transmission unit configured to transmit image data to an external apparatus, a printing unit configured to print an image, a display unit configured to display the image, and a control unit configured to suspend a job executed by the printing unit in response to a selection of a key for suspending a currently executed job, display a list of jobs on the display unit, and cancel a job selected by a user from the displayed list of the jobs. The control unit displays a list of transmission jobs for the transmission unit to transmit the image data generated when the reading unit reads the original in response to the selection of the key during display of a main menu screen for accepting a selection of a function to be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masayuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11509796
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for receiving and distributing incoming fax transmissions. In one embodiment, an electronic device receives, over a computer network, an electronic message that includes an electronic document and a fax telephone number of an organization of a plurality of organizations, wherein the fax telephone number is) permanently associated with the organization and 2) uniquely identifies the organization from other organizations in the plurality of other organizations. The device determines a destination address of the organization based on the fax telephone number and transmits the electronic document and the fax telephone number to the destination address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: J2 CLOUD SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Francis Toscano, Menik Seneviratne
  • Patent number: 11509779
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that communicates with a chat server which controls displaying of received image data in a talk room of a chat service provided by the chat server, based on received information about the talk room, and controls transmission of a notification, based on received user information on a notification destination user, the image processing apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read an image of a document to generate image data based on the image, a registration unit configured to register the talk room of the chat service and the notification destination user in association with an object, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data generated by reading of the reading unit, the information about the talk room, and the user information on the communication destination user to the chat server, in response to selection of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Ushinohama, Yoshihiro Tsukada
  • Patent number: 11509780
    Abstract: A method for delivering a fax to a fax recipient includes receiving a multipage fax transmitted at a fax server. As each page of a multipage fax is received, a page event notification is generated. Each page of the multipage fax file is converted into a corresponding page file. A page complete notification is generated upon completion of conversion of each page of the multipage fax file into the page file. Access is enabled to the page file of the multipage fax file responsive to receipt of the page complete notification associated with the page file. Access to the page file is enabled while subsequent pages of the multipage fax are being received and converted to the associated fax file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: FAXLOGIC, LLC
    Inventors: Michael P. Dagate, David G. Mahaffey, Eric C. D. Lenington
  • Patent number: 11501124
    Abstract: A measuring device includes a first roller pair, a colorimetric unit, a second roller pair, a third roller pair, a motor, and a torque limiter. The third roller pair is driven at a first speed before a trailing end of the sheet with respect to a sheet feeding direction passes through the first roller pair and is driven at a second speed higher than the first speed after the trailing end of the sheet passes through the first roller pair. The first speed is set so as to be equal to the peripheral speed of the first roller pair. The second speed is set so as to be equal to a peripheral speed of the second roller pair in a state in which a slip of the torque limiter is not caused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eikou Mori, Naoto Tokuma, Akito Sekigawa
  • Patent number: 11470217
    Abstract: A service providing system, an information processing system, a display control method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The service providing system stores in one or more memories, application settings information indicating settings of one or more setting items for each application, sets a setting item to be displayed on a setting screen for setting application to non-display, and in response to determination that the setting item set to non-display is included in the one or more setting items of the application settings information, switch a display setting of the setting item from non-display to display, to cause the setting item to be displayed on the setting screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Keiichi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11467893
    Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium stores a program readable by a computer of an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus comprises a processing unit and a storage unit. The information processing apparatus executes a first processing and a second processing. The storage unit includes a shared storage area. The processing unit executes, in the first processing, (i) a storing processing of storing image data, as a file into a file storage area, received from an image processing apparatus capable of communicating with the information processing apparatus, and (ii) a copy processing of storing, into the shared storage area, at least a part of a path name designated to the file stored in the storing processing as data to be processed. The processing unit executes, in the second processing, a paste processing of pasting the data to be processed stored in the shared storage area to a paste target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masafumi Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11449290
    Abstract: Systems for providing efficient manufacturing of paper, sheet, and/or box products of varying size and structure, often with pre-applied print (“pre-print”), are provided herein. One or more controllers can be used to aggregate orders and information to prepare one or more control plans (e.g., reel maps, reel plans, etc.) for processing a roll of web product through the manufacturing process. The control plan may include a set of instructions for operating one or more systems within the manufacturing process to form the desired finished paper-based product. In such a regard, efficient manufacturing of various paper-based products, including corrugated boxes, folded carton, labels, flexible paper, industrial bags, plates, cups, décor, and many others, can be achieved. Further, efficient customer ordering/tracking, job aggregation, print imposition, corrugator planning, and tracking and adjustments throughout the manufacturing process are contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Corrugated LLC
    Inventor: Robert Dennis Seay
  • Patent number: 11445071
    Abstract: A document processing device, a document processing system, and a data processing method for the same are introduced. The document processing device utilizes an exclusive user identification information and an exclusive phone number information. After obtaining a document image, all the document image, the exclusive user identification information and the exclusive phone number information are used to generate document image file information. The document image file information is transmitted to a remote storage through a mobile network. Since the document image file information is directly sent by the document processing device to the remote storage according to the unique user identification and unique phone number information through the mobile network, not only can the cumbersome and complicated configuration process be avoided, but also the risk of information theft can be reduced, thereby improving information storage specificity, confidentiality, and security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: AVISION INC.
    Inventor: Po-Sheng Shih
  • Patent number: 11422760
    Abstract: A disclosed information processing apparatus is capable of acquiring, from a device connected to the information processing apparatus, configuration information concerning the device for a setup corresponding to the device according to the configuration information. The information processing apparatus includes a function file storage configured to hold a function file describing a function of the device; a device classifying unit configured to classify the device into a category according to the configuration information acquired from the device; an information acquiring unit configured to acquire, from the device, information concerning the function described in the function file corresponding to the category into which the device is classified by the device classifying unit; and a display unit configured to display a setup page used for the setup corresponding to the device, according to the information acquired by the information acquiring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuko Asano