Patents Examined by Quang N. Vo
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Patent number: 11886763Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a network interface, an operation panel including a touch panel, and a controller. The controller is configured to provide a mobile input function to a mobile terminal via the network interface. In response to accepting a first operation to the operation panel with a local operation screen not displayed on the touch panel, the controller causes the touch panel to display the local operation screen, and thereafter switches the local operation screen on the touch panel to a standby screen after waiting until a continuous time with no operation to the touch panel exceeds a first threshold time. In response to accepting a second operation to the operation panel with the local operation screen not displayed on the touch panel, the controller causes the touch panel to display the standby screen without waiting for the first threshold time to elapse.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koki Izumi, Yuichiro Sakuragi, Satoshi Tanimoto, Kosuke Mori
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Patent number: 11882258Abstract: Even when the number of image formers and/or the number of color management target values are large, it is possible to easily manage the color management target value associated with the image former. A color management device 1 according to one aspect of the present invention includes a management part 107 that manages information on a user who performs a color verification operation using the color management target value in association with correspondence information in which the image former and the color management target value are managed in association with each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Kazuma Maruyama
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Patent number: 11880624Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to provide a mobile input function that enables the image forming apparatus to accept input operations from a mobile terminal via a network interface. After starting to provide the mobile input function, the controller sends display data to the mobile terminal via the network interface, thereby causing the mobile terminal to display an operation screen for operating the image forming apparatus from the mobile terminal. The controller displays a standby screen including a particular operable object on a touch panel when the mobile input function is not provided. When the particular operable object is operated, the controller switches the standby screen to a local operation screen. In response to accepting an operation on the local operation screen, the controller performs a corresponding process depending on what kind of operation has been performed on the local operation screen.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2023Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shun Takeuchi, Kosuke Mori, Yuichiro Sakuragi, Satoshi Tanimoto
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Patent number: 11863720Abstract: A conveyor is configured to convey a sheet in a conveyance direction. A print engine is configured to perform image recording of recording an image on the sheet conveyed by the conveyor. A cutter is configured to cut the sheet. A display is configured to display a screen. A controller is configured to: control the print engine to perform the image recording based on acquired first recording data; control the cutter to cut the sheet at a particular position; in response to determining that recording of the first recording data is not performed on at least one of sheets acquired by cutting of the cutter, control the display to display a first object indicating that a blank sheet will be generated after the cutting, the blank sheet being a sheet on which an image can be recorded.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ayako Sugiyama
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Patent number: 11853822Abstract: A printing device comprises a head including nozzles configured to eject ink and is configured to print, with use of the ink, an image having a plurality of pixels on a printing medium, an input device configured to receive information designating a pixel in the image, and a controller. The controller performs judging a priority of a designated color of a designated pixel designated by the information designating the pixel, determining one of conditions including a number, sizes, and the number and sizes of the designated patches of the designated color, based on the priority judged by the judging, and printing a patch chart containing the designated patch according to the one of the conditions on the printing medium.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shota Morikawa
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Patent number: 11843753Abstract: A supporting program is executable by a controller of an information processing apparatus and corresponds to a printer connected to the information processing apparatus. The supporting program causes the information processing apparatus to perform processing intermediate image data in accordance with a print parameter received in a print parameter editing process, displaying an image indicated by the processed inter mediate image data on a print preview screen. The information processing apparatus does not restrict printing when print continuation is instructed, while restricting the printing when re-edit or print cancel is instructed.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazutaka Yamada
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Patent number: 11842115Abstract: A printer may include a controller configured to: in a case where a predetermined instruction is obtained from a user under a situation where a service state of the printer for receiving a print job providing service from a server is a disabled state, shift the service state from the disabled state to an enabled state; in a case where a registration instruction to register printer information related to the printer in the server is obtained, send the printer information to the server; in a case where the registration instruction is obtained under the situation where the service state is the disabled state, shift the service state from the disabled state to the enabled state without obtaining the predetermined instruction from the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Ryo Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11842233Abstract: A textile printing system for digital printing of colored images onto typically colored fabrics, digitally using print nozzles or other digital means, the nozzles printing print pixels onto the fabrics. The system comprises a print file defining pixel colors for the individual printing pixels; and a deletion unit which deletes print pixels from the print file wherever a respective pixel color is within a threshold distance of the fabric color. The textile printer then prints the print pixels onto the fabric to form a colored image without printing any of the deleted pixels.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Kornit Digital Ltd.Inventor: Allon Shimoni
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Patent number: 11838475Abstract: Methods and systems for secure media processing may be used to execute and certify a digital media asset by verifying that the digital media asset is authentic and has not been altered since capture. In some cases, these secure media processing techniques may be used in the mobile certification and execution application and a corresponding server system. The mobile application and the corresponding server system may automatically generate finalized documents upon receiving certified digital media and the corresponding metadata from the users. The digital media and other information from the users may be received while the user is in communication with other users. A biometric and artificial intelligent feature recognition system may be utilized to receive biometric data and verify identity. Data transferred to a secure server are accessible by various parties involved in the certification and execution process to provide transparency.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: IMAGEKEEPER LLCInventors: Jerry Speasl, Michael Patterson, Marc Roberts
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Patent number: 11829823Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an image forming portion which forms a chart image on a sheet conveyed from a sheet feeding deck, a color measure portion which performs color measurement by reading the chart image formed by the image forming portion, and one or more controllers including one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more controllers are configured to generate correction data based on color measurement results by the color measurer portion and a reference value, and perform correction for target image data by using the generated correction data. The reference value is obtained by performing color measurement by the color measure portion and is registered in association with a type of sheet on which the chart image is formed, and in a case where the type of sheet on which the chart image is formed is changed, the reference value is updated.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi Kaneda, Masaki Kashiwagi, Junichi Mori, Aya Kasahara
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Patent number: 11831843Abstract: A communication apparatus capable of communicating with an information processing apparatus and an access point includes an establishment unit configured to establish connection between the access point and the communication apparatus, and a control unit configured to execute, based on a fact that an authentication method used for connection between the communication apparatus and the access point is a predetermined authentication method, predetermined processing to inhibit at least part of communication between the communication apparatus and the information processing apparatus without interposing the access point.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Koji Okamura
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Patent number: 11831841Abstract: A method of printing an image using a printing system having first and second printheads supplied with a same ink. The method includes the steps of: allocating first lines of the image to the first printhead; allocating second lines of the image to the second printhead; dithering the first lines of the image using a selected first dither mask; dithering the second lines of the image using a selected second dither mask; printing the dithered first lines of the image using the first printhead; and printing the dithered second lines of the image using the second printhead. The first and second dither masks are selected based on a relative alignment of the first and second printheads.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Memjet Technology LimitedInventors: Rodney Hardy, James Lawrence
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Patent number: 11825056Abstract: A printing plate having a printing surface for receiving ink, including a defined area of an image intended to print with ink and a surface pattern applied to the defined area. The surface pattern includes a plurality of rows each having a plurality of diagonally oriented line segments, each line segment corresponding to an ink-carrying relief structure in a raised area of the plate, the plurality of diagonally oriented line segments having orientations alternating between a positive angle in one row and a negative angle in an adjacent row, wherein each line segment has a first end aligned with a middle portion of and spaced apart from a first line of a first adjacent row and a second end aligned with a middle portion of and spaced apart from a second line of a second adjacent row.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: ESKO Software BVInventors: Peter Morisse, Wolfgang Sievers, Thomas Klein
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Patent number: 11822987Abstract: A processing device including a hardware processor that: determines a dot position at which a dot is to be generated by multiple recording elements arranged in a first direction on a medium which moves relative to the recording elements in a second direction crossing the first direction, based on tone data for each pixel of an image to be formed; determines a corrected dot number that is a number of a dot position by a malfunctioning recording element to which an offset number is added, wherein the malfunctioning recording element is set as a recording element by which a dot is not generated normally among the recording elements; and determines the corrected dot number of a dot position within a dot generation possible range by a recording element other than the malfunctioning recording element.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Masahiro Kouzaki, Koji Washio
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Patent number: 11818318Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store compensation logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the compensation logic to generate transfer functions for each of a plurality of color planes to compensate for non-functioning pel forming elements, wherein the transfer functions are generated based on ink deposition functions for groups of pel forming elements including functioning pel forming elements and the non-functioning pel forming elements, wherein the transfer functions transform input digital counts and the ink deposition functions represent output ink amount versus input digital count.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Walter F. Kailey, Nikita Gurudath, Ziling Zhang, Brandon Skogen
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Patent number: 11816830Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a reference image serving as a reference printing result and a target image serving as a printing result to be inspected, a correction unit configured to correct the target image based on a paper white area of each of the reference image and the target image so that a paper white color of the paper white area of the target image matches a paper white color of the paper white area of the reference image, wherein the paper white area is determined based on a positional displacement between the reference image and the target image, and an inspection unit configured to inspect the printing result by comparing the corrected target image with the reference image.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toshiyuki Ishii
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Patent number: 11797803Abstract: A method for correcting in-track position errors in a digital printing system includes determining a non-linear in-track position correction function responsive to measured in-track position errors, wherein the in-track position corrections are quantized to integer in-track position corrections. A representation of the in-track position correction function is stored in a digital memory, wherein the representation of the in-track position correction function includes the cross-track positions and transition direction of transitions in the in-track position correction function. Digital image data for a digital image to be printed is received, and corrected image lines are determined by resampling the digital image data responsive to the stored representation of the in-track position correction function. The corrected image lines are modified to provide anti-aliasing pixels at cross-track positions adjacent to transitions in the in-track position correction function.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYInventor: Chung-Hui Kuo
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Patent number: 11797802Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including a forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet fed from a stage in response to execution of printing of a predetermined number of images based on a print job, a measurement unit configured to read the formed image and perform color measurement, a generation unit configured to generate data based on a result of the color measurement and a reference value, and a correction unit configured to perform a gradation correction to image data by using the generated data, wherein the sheet on which the image is formed is determined based on a setting of the print job.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kosuke Tsujita
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Patent number: 11792348Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet; an image processing unit configured to perform processing, which comprises correction of color misregistration, on image data for controlling the image forming unit to form the image; and a controller configured to instruct the image forming unit to perform calibration in a case where a component of the image forming unit is replaced. The image forming unit includes a storage unit, and is configured to acquire correction information to be used for the correction of color misregistration in the calibration to store the correction information in the storage unit, and the image processing unit includes a memory configured to store first image data, which is the image data before being processed, and second image data, which is obtained by compressing the image data after being processed.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideo Nagura, Takahiro Nakase, Yoshinori Hara, Shintaro Kawai, Ryo Suzuki, Nobuaki Suzuki
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Patent number: 11782656Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates print data by executing a printer driver based on an instruction issued by an application operating in an operating system. The information processing apparatus includes an eliminating unit configured to eliminate conflict or inconsistency of a print setting based on conflict eliminating information for eliminating conflict of a setting to be input to the printer driver under control of an application which processes the print setting, and an input unit configured to input a print setting obtained after conflict is eliminated by the eliminating unit to the printer driver using the application.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazuyuki Saito