Operator Interface (e.g., Display Control Panel) Patents (Class 399/81)
  • Patent number: 11934130
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus controls a feeding device to stop feeding residual toner to a first accommodating container and an image forming portion to continue an image forming operation, in a case the first accommodating container is not full and the first accommodating container is dismounted when the image forming operation is executed when the residual toner is fed to the first accommodating container. After detection of dismount of the first accommodating container until a predetermined time elapses, the feeding device stops feeding continuously the residual toner to the first accommodating container and does not start feeding the residual toner to the second accommodating container, and the image forming operation continues when the first accommodating container is not mounted, and the feeding device resumes feeding the residual toner to the first accommodating container and the image forming operation continues when the first accommodating container is mounted again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirotoshi Tajima
  • Patent number: 11892793
    Abstract: A first cover includes a first discharge tray portion and a first recess. The first discharge tray portion supports a discharged sheet. The first recess is formed at the first discharge tray portion. The first recess extends along a sheet discharge direction to a downstream end of the first discharge tray portion in the sheet discharge direction. The second cover surrounds the first cover. A second cover includes a second discharge tray portion and a second recess. The second discharge tray portion is arranged downstream of the first discharge tray portion in the sheet discharge direction. The second discharge tray portion supports the discharged sheet in cooperation with the first discharge tray portion. The second recess is arranged downstream of the first recess in the discharge direction. The second recess is formed continuously from the first recess, and serves as a sheet handle portion in cooperation with the first recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kotaro Haruta
  • Patent number: 11860561
    Abstract: An image reading device includes an image reader and circuitry. The image reader is configured to read an image on a recording medium. The circuitry is configured to obtain defective image information and defect type information based on the image on the recording medium read by the image reader, and determine an abnormality of the image on the recording medium based on the defective image information and the defect type information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimiharu Yamazaki, Kohta Aoyagi, Tatsuya Ishii, Tohru Matsumoto, Satoshi Nakayama, Ryosuke Ebinuma, Ryoh Ishitsuka
  • Patent number: 11861309
    Abstract: Example techniques for processing service notes are described. In an example, labeled service notes, associated with fuser units of a plurality of image rendering devices, are processed to generate a vector corresponding to each of the labeled service notes, a labeled service note comprising natural language text describing an error event and a corresponding service activity associated with a fuser unit, wherein the labeled service note is assigned a label based on a category of failure of the fuser unit. Based on the processing, a relationship between vectors and labels corresponding to the labeled service notes is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Anton Wiranata, Niranjan Damera Venkata, Prasad Hegde, Aravindakshan B
  • Patent number: 11801705
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a sheet processing device, and control circuitry. The image forming apparatus forms an image on a sheet. The sheet processing device performs post-processing on the sheet. The sheet processing device includes a first conveyance path through which the sheet is conveyed and subjected to the post-processing and a second conveyance path through which the sheet is conveyed without the post-processing. In response to an instruction of print jobs including both a print job of one or N copies subjected to the post-processing and a print job not subjected to the post-processing, the circuitry executes the job not subjected to the post-processing during execution of an M-th copy of the job subjected to the post-processing and causes the sheet to be conveyed through the second conveyance path, where N is two or greater and M satisfies 1?M<N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Sho Asano, Wataru Takahashi, Yoshito Suzuki, Shinya Monma, Joji Akiyama, Yohsuke Haraguchi, Wataru Nozaki, Tomohiro Furuhashi
  • Patent number: 11800025
    Abstract: Image processing apparatuses have a unit for registering settings in applications or a unit for registering application settings on a portal screen, but do not allow these units to function in a coordinated manner. For example, if a user who frequently uses a certain application registers settings of the application, the settings may also be useful to other users. However, users who mainly use their own portal screens cannot invoke the settings. Settings of an application registered as a shared custom button are automatically registered as frequently used settings in the application. Similarly, settings registered as frequently used settings in an application are automatically registered as a shared custom button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuki Kado
  • Patent number: 11768644
    Abstract: A display control device includes a display section and a display controller. The display controller controls the display section so as to cause the display section to display a first image (703a to 703f) and a second image. The first image (703a to 703f) is displayed in an upper layer for the second image. The first image (703a to 703f) represents a category item. The second image represents a setting item belonging to the category item. The display controller controls the display section so as to cause the display section to display a predetermined image (705) in the first image (703a to 703f) according to the setting item that has been entered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Okabayashi
  • Patent number: 11770299
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for receiving a template usable to generate a configuration for at least one network device. A specification in a preprocess file can be interpreted to request at least one server-side feature to be used for the template. Data can be received from a server based on the interpreting the specification. The data can be provided to the template. The template can reference the data when generating the configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventor: Kyle Batross
  • Patent number: 11765303
    Abstract: An internal discharge space is defined between an image reading section and an image forming section and the internal discharge space has an opening in a front of the image forming apparatus. Since the internal discharge space has the opening in the front of the image forming apparatus, a border between the internal discharge space and the housing is located in the front of the image forming apparatus. A light emitting section having a predetermined length along the border is provided and emits light along the predetermined length of the border, enabling users to check a light emission state from a distance. Accordingly, a state of the image forming apparatus can be indicated by the light emitting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Tomoyuki Higuchi, Kenji Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 11745521
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a plurality of set units to set rolled print media, a conveyance unit to convey the print media, a printing unit, a detection unit, and display units. The printing unit prints an image on the print media conveyed by the conveyance unit. The detection unit detects whether any one of the print media is fed to a predetermined printable position at which printing is performable by the printing unit. Each display unit is provided on a different one of the plurality of set units and configured to indicate whether a print medium set in a corresponding set unit is being fed. When the printing unit performs printing on the print medium, each display unit indicates whether the print medium set in the corresponding set unit is being fed in accordance with a result of detection performed by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouhei Tokuda, Toshinobu Tokita, Hideyuki Nozawa, Yasuyuki Asai, Ryutaro Taira
  • Patent number: 11726427
    Abstract: In a case in which an image forming apparatus determines that a replaceable unit is replaced in a first state, in which removal of the replaceable unit is inhibited, the image forming apparatus performs control to switch from the first state to a second state, in which removal of the replaceable unit is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eiichiro Teshima, Yoshiteru Kaida
  • Patent number: 11720299
    Abstract: Sheet feeding has been started after storing image data for one page of a document. A control method for a printing apparatus includes feeding a sheet from a sheet holding unit by a feeding unit, reading an image of a document by a reading unit, storing image data of the document read by the reading unit in a storing unit, and reading out, before image data for one page of the document is stored in the storing unit, the image data of the document from the storing unit and printing, by a printing unit, the image based on the read image data to the sheet fed from the sheet holding unit by the feeding unit, in which the feeding unit is able to start to feed the sheet from the sheet holding unit before the image data for the one page of the document is stored in the storing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 11675556
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a storage unit and a control unit. The storage unit stores conflict information indicating that a setting for printing a predetermined number of pages on one surface of one sheet conflicts with a setting for punching a plurality of rows of holes in the one sheet. The control unit performs control to prohibit generation of a print command including the printing and punching settings based on the conflict information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takuya Natori
  • Patent number: 11647138
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image reading unit. When printing a postcard is selected, a preview screen including a preview image about an image on a communication side of the postcard read by the image reacting unit is displayed on a display. At this occasion, an instruction image indicating an orientation of an address side of the postcard is also displayed. When it is instructed to turn over the preview image on the communication side, the preview screen including the preview image on the address side is displayed on the display. When the orientation of the address side and the orientation of the communication side do not coincide with each other, or when they are not as intended by a user, printing is performed after the image on the communication side is rotated according to the user's operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takuya Koujiro
  • Patent number: 11579552
    Abstract: A display device usable with an image forming apparatus includes a liquid crystal unit including a liquid crystal screen and a frame supporting the liquid crystal screen; a supporting member of metal supporting the liquid crystal unit; and an insulative spacer providing a space between the frame and the supporting member at a position of the frame corresponding to an outside area of a display area of the liquid crystal screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuhito Watanabe, Shingo Hattori
  • Patent number: 11528371
    Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. The operation screen is displayed on the display. On the operation screen, an operation guidance portion, including a message for providing operation guidance to the user, and a plurality of operation keys for accepting user operations are displayed. A part of the operation guidance portion is colored in a first color, the operation keys which are the first type of operation key are colored in the first color, and the operation keys which are the second type of operation key are not colored in the first color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Saeda, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano
  • Patent number: 11526316
    Abstract: A display control device includes a display section and a display controller. The display controller controls the display section so as to cause the display section to display a first image and a second image. The first image is displayed in an upper layer for the second image. The first image represents a category item. The second image represents a setting item belonging to the category item. The display controller controls the display section so as to cause the display section to display a predetermined image in the first image according to the setting item that has been entered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Okabayashi
  • Patent number: 11526109
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a controller performs processes in accordance with an operation mode settable to one of a first subscription mode and a second subscription mode. The first subscription mode corresponds to a first subscription in which a specific-color cartridge is a subscription subject and a non-specific-color cartridge is not the subscription subject. The second subscription mode corresponds to a second subscription in which both the specific-color cartridge and the non-specific-color cartridge are the subscription subject. The controller performs restricting usage of the non-specific-color cartridge in a case where the first subscription mode is set as the operation mode and the type information of the non-specific-color cartridge indicates the subscription type, compared to a case where the second subscription mode is set as the operation mode and the type information of the non-specific-color cartridge indicates the subscription type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noriaki Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 11513570
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming unit, a housing having a top face, an operation unit freely placed on the housing top face, a touch panel, and a supporting base. The image forming unit forms an image on a sheet. The operation unit is freely placed on the housing top face and accepts a user operation for causing the image forming unit to execute image formation. The operation unit includes a touch panel having a display face on which information about the image formation is displayed and accepting touch operation performed by a user. The supporting base supports the touch panel so that an inclination angle of the display face inclined with respect to the housing top face becomes one of 5 degrees or more and 45 degrees or less when the operation unit is placed on the housing top face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirohisa Sawada, Shingo Hattori
  • Patent number: 11516363
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect an object, a reception unit configured to receive an operation of a user, and a shifting unit configured to shift, if the detection unit detects an object, a power state of the image forming apparatus from a first power state to a second power state different from the first power state, and shift, if the reception unit receives an operation of a user, the power state of the image forming apparatus from the second power state to the first power state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobuyasu Ito
  • Patent number: 11460799
    Abstract: An example image forming apparatus includes a coupling device to perform coupling or decoupling between the image forming apparatus and a consumable, a sensor to sense an opening of a cover of the image forming apparatus, and a processor. When receiving an opening sensing signal of the cover from the sensor, the processor determines whether the consumable coupled to the image forming apparatus corresponds to a consumable access condition, and based on a result of determination, transmits a signal requesting decoupling of the consumable corresponding to the consumable access condition to the coupling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Mokhwa Lim, Sunyoung Park, Hyeonseung Lee
  • Patent number: 11457115
    Abstract: A multifunction peripheral (MFP), which successively conveys a plurality of documents stacked on a document tray and reads the document, determines whether there is a difference among sizes of the plurality of documents in response to at least one of the documents being read by a scanner, in a case where a preview operation of a read image is performed, notifies a user of a possibility that documents having different sizes are mixed and read based on a result of the determination, enables a function of performing reading corresponding to respective document size of mixed size documents in which documents having different sizes are mixed, and provides navigation for prompting re-reading of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11449287
    Abstract: A server may after a shipping process has been executed, select first device identification information from among N2 pieces of device identification information (the N2 being an integer satisfying 2?N2?N1) by using N2 pieces of consumable article information among N1 pieces of the consumable article information, the first device identification information identifying a first device of which consumable article is to be exchanged first. The server may send a first notification execution request to an external device, the first notification execution request being for causing the external device to execute a first notification process, and the first notification process being for notifying a user that the consumable article of the first device identified by the first device identification information is to be exchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirokazu Banno
  • Patent number: 11436456
    Abstract: A server includes: a storage control section storing, in a storage section, relationship information that indicates a relationship between attribute information indicating an attribute of a user of a device and consumption information indicating consumption of a consumable product of the device; an acquisition section acquiring the attribute information of a first user; and a predicted consumption calculation section calculating, based on the attribute information of the first user and the relationship information, predicted consumption of the consumable product of the device used by the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Shibasaki
  • Patent number: 11422761
    Abstract: An example image forming apparatus includes a print engine to form an image, a memory to store a plurality of print data and user information corresponding to each of the plurality of print data, a communication apparatus to communicate with a terminal through a wireless communication method, and a processor to control the print engine to print the plurality of print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Chang Nam An
  • Patent number: 11402785
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, a detector, and a display section. The image forming section forms an image on a first side of a sheet. The sheet has the first side and a second side. The detector is positioned upstream of the image forming section in a sheet conveyance direction. The detector detects whether or not an image has been formed on the first side of the sheet. The display section displays information indicating that an image has been formed on the first side of the sheet when the detector detects that an image has been formed on the first side of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 11354551
    Abstract: A printing apparatus has a sheet holding unit having a detection unit for detecting a size of a sheet which is held and a storage unit configured to store sheet information including at least a size of a sheet as information representing a sheet. The apparatus sets first sheet information selected by a user in association with the sheet holding unit from a plurality of items of sheet information stored in the storage unit and notifies the user of a mismatch in a case where a size of a sheet that the first sheet information set in the setting indicates, and a size of a sheet detected by the detection unit are mismatched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihiko Iida, Koichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11316991
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a memory and a hardware processor coupled to the memory. The hardware processor is configured to: cause a display device to display a setting screen for receiving individual setting values for a plurality of setting items; receive, from a user, individual setting values for a first item, a second item, and a third item in the setting items through the setting screen; specify a recommended setting value for the third item, based on the received setting values for the first item and the second item; and control, upon receiving the setting values for the first item and the second item from the user, display of information for receiving a setting value for the third item included in the setting screen based on the recommended setting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11312390
    Abstract: A vehicle control system and method display a map within a designated viewing area of a display device. The map provides information on a location of a vehicle and restrictions on vehicle movement. Prompts for response from a vehicle operator are displayed with the map. The prompts are based on the vehicle location and/or the movement restrictions. The are displayed on the vehicle display device but outside of the designated viewing area of the vehicle display device. Operator input is received in response to the one or more prompts to verify that the vehicle is moving according to the one or more restrictions on the movement of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: westinghouse air brake technologies corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Vrba, Ann Grimm, Scott Sollars, Phil Burgart, Jim Oswald
  • Patent number: 11307811
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving, by a processor of a multi-function device (MFD), a scanned image of a print job with a finish option applied to the print job, determining, by the processor, that the finish option requires an adjustment based on an analysis of the scanned image, determining, by the processor, an amount of adjustment to the finish option to apply to subsequent copies of the print job, and performing, by the processor, an adjustment to the MFD to apply the amount of adjustment to the finish option for subsequent copies of the print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: James D. Vanbortel, Bruce H. Smith, Michael N. Soures, Conner N. Smith, Jonathan Ireland
  • Patent number: 11297195
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: acquire information on a folding manner in which a folding device folds a medium; and when the folding manner does not allow reading of a folding position of the medium with the medium folded, cause a display to display information so as to prompt a user to unfold and read the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shogo Tanaka, Kenji Sawai
  • Patent number: 11281326
    Abstract: An encoder may be configured to receive a first input from a user. The encoder may include a first user input area. A configurator may be configured to communicate with the encoder and the encoder may be configured to communicate with a CPU. The encoder may receive the first input from the user at the first user input area based on an encoder configuration defined by the configurator. The encoder may communicate the first input to the CPU based on the encoder configuration defined by the configurator. A panel may be configured to receive a first input from a user. The panel may include a plurality of input areas. A portable computing device may comprise a configurator. The portable computing device may be configured to communicate with a CPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Grayhill, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt Huner, Kevin Dooley, Torsten Chase, Robert Kerner, Kenneth G. Mages, Robert Piotr Obrochta, Andrew Wood Polk, IV, Patrick Charles Leighton, Cheng-Yu Hsu
  • Patent number: 11269566
    Abstract: Examples of a user interface (UI) for depletion level selection are described herein. In some examples, a control element is displayed in a UI to select a color depletion level for a color printing substance of a printing device. A predicted cost-per-page to print is displayed in the UI based on based on a selected color depletion level. A color map for the printing device is determined based on the selected color depletion level and a separate black depletion level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jesse Otto Sutherland, Wesley R Schalk, Kris M English, Morgan T Schramm, Howard G Wong
  • Patent number: 11252289
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, an image processing apparatus in which a plurality of applications operates, the image processing apparatus comprises: a selection unit that selects, from the plurality of applications, one or more applications used for performing setting of a function; a setting unit that sets whether a setup screen for the one or more applications selected by the selection unit is displayed in a first mode or a second mode; and a display unit that displays the setup screen for the one or more applications in the first mode or the second mode based on information set by the setting unit, wherein one or more functions available in a setup screen displayed in the second mode are fewer than functions available in a setup screen displayed in the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toru Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 11237509
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that is replenished with toner by using a toner cartridge serving as a toner container that accommodates toner, which is a consumable, and that is detachable from an apparatus body, includes, as a characteristic component of a control section that controls the image forming apparatus, a display control unit that, when a toner cartridge to be first inserted or a replacing toner cartridge is inserted, causes a display section of an operation panel to display a display (e.g. a message, an image (illustration), a moving image, or the like) that instructs a user in an operation of shaking the toner cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke Miyanishi, Kunihiro Mitsuhashi
  • Patent number: 11204581
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus resets a count value retained by a counter if a cleaning sequence is executed based on an execution instruction accepted from an operator via an operation unit or when the count value for counting the number of image-formed sheets reaches a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirotaka Seki
  • Patent number: 11199800
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a recording material loading unit, a transport unit, a detector, and a controller. A recording material is loaded in the recording material loading unit. The transport unit transports the recording material from the recording material loading unit to an image forming unit that forms an image on the recording material. The detector detects a transport state of the transported recording material on a way from the recording material loading unit to the image forming unit. The controller performs control to change a position in which a user is prompted to check the transport state of the recording material and display a countermeasure method, based on a determination criterion that is determined according to (i) the transport state of the recording material detected by the detector and (ii) recording material information on the recording material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Yamaguchi, Yoichi Yamakawa, Keita Mizukoshi
  • Patent number: 11194533
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a processor that manages time slots in which a roll paper has been consumed for printing or time slots in which the roll paper is scheduled to be consumed for printing and controls output of a first image in which figures corresponding to the time slots are arranged for an attribute of the paper along a time axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Megumi Yamaguchi, Takashi Kikumoto, Shingo Tajima, Bo Liu, Masatake Kawabe, Daisuke Noguchi, Shogo Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11163509
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes processing request template generation unit that generates a processing request flow in which plural processing requests are associated with each other, as one processing request template, in a case where there is a commonality among plural pieces of image data relating to plural processing requests each of which request type is identified, and a template display control unit that displays the processing request template on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Nakahara
  • Patent number: 11153446
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: select an object which is a transmission candidate using (i) attributes of objects managed in a project including plural processes and (ii) an attribute of a user who instructs an operation relating to transmission of an object, generate, for the object which is the transmission candidate, image information obtained by imaging transmission information used for the transmission of the object, and output the generated image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Murakami
  • Patent number: 11095789
    Abstract: A multifunction peripheral (MFP), which successively conveys a plurality of documents stacked on a document tray and reads the document, determines whether there is a difference among sizes of the plurality of documents in response to at least one of the documents being read by a scanner, in a case where a preview operation of a read image is performed, notifies a user of a possibility that documents having different sizes are mixed and read based on a result of the determination, enables a function of performing reading corresponding to respective document size of mixed size documents in which documents having different sizes are mixed, and provides navigation for prompting re-reading of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11086480
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to store plural screens satisfying a predetermined condition among screens used for setting a device accompanying a series of screen transitions, in association with one icon; and display the plural screens associated with the icon in order and receive the setting of the device from each screen of the plural screens in a case where a user selects the icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Rie Muraishi, Jun Hatano
  • Patent number: 11080572
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus which reads an image of a document and prints the read image on a sheet includes a detecting unit, an obtaining unit, and a controller. The detecting unit detects a size of the document. The obtaining unit obtains a size of the sheet. The controller performs control such that, in a case where the size of the sheet obtained by the obtaining unit is not a predetermined size, an image in a reading region based on the size of the document detected by the detecting unit is read, and in a case where the size of the sheet obtained by the obtaining unit is the predetermined size, an image in a reading region based on the size of the sheet is read.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoto Akimoto
  • Patent number: 11064080
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a tray and a sensor provided for the tray and configured to sense that a particular operation is performed for the tray. A controller is configured to: register tray relating information; when the particular operation is performed for a first tray as the tray, and first-tray information indicating a setting item associated with the first tray is registered as the registered tray relating information, display a tray-setting screen that accepts an input for a setting item for the recording medium to be placed on the first tray and that contains a related-setting-item object indicating the setting item, of the registered first-tray information, which is associated with the first tray; and when the related-setting-item object is selected, set the setting item corresponding to the related-setting-item object, to a setting item for a placing medium to be placed on the first tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuka Hattori
  • Patent number: 11048120
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable operation portion including a switchable display screen portion, a frame holding the display screen portion; a light-emitting diode to light up, flashes, or turns off; a light source substrate provided with the light emitting diode; a light guide member which is fixed to an edge on a front side of the main assembly with respect to the display screen portion and which is provided with an emission opening through which the light emitted by the light emitting diode is directed to an outside. The light guide member is fixed such that a plane of the light emission opening of the light guide member is within a range of 45°±15° with respect to the display screen portion. The emission opening of the light guide member faces the light emitting surface of the light emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shingo Hattori, Naohiro Seki, Yoshinori Inukai
  • Patent number: 11046537
    Abstract: A controlling method for an image forming apparatus which has plural sheet containers and can perform printing by using a sheet contained in the sheet container is provided. When there is no sheet in at least one of the sheet containers, it is set whether to perform a notification in consideration of another sheet container. No sheet in the sheet container is detected. When it is not set to perform the notification in consideration of another sheet container, it notifies notification information of no sheet to a preset notification destination in accordance with the detection. When it is set to perform the notification in consideration of another sheet container and there is another sheet container containing a sheet corresponding to the sheet which should be contained in the sheet container in which there is no sheet, it does not notify the notification information in accordance with the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keisuke Aizono
  • Patent number: 11050897
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit, a detector and a controller. The setting unit sets setting information associating a registered image obtained by reading an image with control information indicating whether input image data is to be stored or not. The detector detects the registered image from the input image data. The controller controls whether or not the input image data including the registered image is stored in a storage based on the setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiro Moro
  • Patent number: 11012586
    Abstract: After a fixed period of time has passed with no operation received by an operating unit, a control unit switches the operation mode to a first power saving mode when the brightness detected by a brightness detection unit is greater than or equal to a given brightness, and switches the operation mode to a second power saving mode when the brightness detected is less than the given brightness. The control unit extends the detection range of a human detection unit in the second power saving mode to a range broader than the range used in the first power saving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Kazunobu Iritani
  • Patent number: 10990028
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to control a display to display a setting screen for a background pattern that allows a user to designate a special consumable material as a color to be used for information specified as the background pattern; generate print data using the designated special consumable material; and transmit the print data to an image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuka Kanatani, Keiji Kunimi
  • Patent number: 10834278
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a CPU and a speaker, and the CPU selects a voice message for output, which corresponds to information to be notified to a person who uses the image forming apparatus, in accordance with a situation of the image forming apparatus, sets, as an output volume value, a normal volume value allocated to the message for output, and when determining that a person exists around the image forming apparatus in accordance with an output of a person detection sensor, determines whether to change the output volume value, and when determining that the output volume value is to be changed, changes the output volume value in accordance with a content of the voice message for output. Then, the voice message for output is output from the speaker with a volume according to the output volume value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirohito Morioka