Including Means For Responding To Input Program Or Incoming Signals And Providing Output Program Or Signals Representing Typing Operations (e.g., Output Typewriter) Patents (Class 400/62)
  • Patent number: 11845225
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including a method of multi-material stereolithographic three dimensional printing comprising, depositing a first material through a first material dispenser of a stereolithographic three dimensional printer onto an optical exposure window to form a first material layer; curing the first material layer to form a first material structure on a build head of the stereolithographic three dimensional printer; depositing a second material through the first material dispenser or a second material dispenser onto the optical exposure window to form a second material layer; and curing the second material layer to form a second material structure on the build head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Holo, Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre Pascal Anatole Lin, Brian James Adzima, Arian Aziz Aghababaie, Andreas Linas Bastian, John Vericella, Jonathan Pomeroy
  • Patent number: 11682173
    Abstract: A method of augmenting reality of an image, comprising providing a lenticular lens for viewing an image, wherein the image is a lenticular image comprising at least two interlaced images. At least two fiducial markers are provided in the image. A first sensor located at a first distance from the image detects a first fiducial marker, and a second sensor located at a second distance from the image detects a second fiducial marker, wherein the detection of the each of the first and the second fiducial markers triggers a computing process delivering augmented reality to a user via a screen. The second distance is closer to the image than the first distance, and the second fiducial marker is capable of being detected by the second sensor from the second distance, but not from the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventors: Kevin Pezzino, Sandra P. Pezzino, Maria E. Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11675548
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a storage that stores a table that associates a type of a print medium with an output profile, a memory device that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to determine whether or not an output profile has been designated by a print job to be processed for a page included in the print job, perform color conversion for the page using the output profile designated by the print job without referring to the table and printing in a case where it is determined the output profile has been designated by the print job, and referring to the table, perform color conversion for the page using the output profile associated with a type of a print medium and printing in a case where it is determined the output profile has not been designated by the print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shogo Higashi
  • Patent number: 11582361
    Abstract: A storage medium storing a program causes a computer of an information processing apparatus to execute a method including obtaining information about a predetermined program stored in a communication apparatus, and controlling issuance of a predetermined notification about update of the predetermined program based on the obtained information about the predetermined program. The predetermined notification is controlled to be issued in a case where a version of the predetermined program is not a latest version, and the predetermined notification is controlled so as not to be issued in a case where the version of the predetermined program is the latest version.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuyuki Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11558526
    Abstract: An image processing service system includes an operation request accepting unit, a setting accepting unit, a payment control unit, and an operation execution control unit. The operation request accepting unit accepts an operation request for an image processing apparatus through a chat between a user and a chatbot participating in a chat service on a chat board provided by the service. The setting accepting unit accepts a setting for an operation of the image processing apparatus requested by the operation request. The payment control unit makes a payment for the operation of the image processing apparatus requested by the operation request through an electronic payment system available on the chat service. The operation execution control unit controls the image processing apparatus to execute the operation requested by the operation request after the setting is accepted by the setting accepting unit and the payment is made by the payment control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Akihiro Ishii
  • Patent number: 11433689
    Abstract: A cassette includes: a housing; and a medium having a first portion contained in the housing and a second portion protruding to an outside of the housing. The second portion of the medium is a protruding portion having an indicator portion on which information is printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kentaro Murayama
  • Patent number: 11429554
    Abstract: In an example, a logic circuitry package has a first address and comprises a first logic circuit. In some examples, the first address is an I2C address for the first logic circuit, and the package is configured such that, in response to a first command indicative of a task and a first time period sent to the first address, the first logic circuit is to, for a duration of the time period, perform a task, and disregard I2C traffic sent to the first address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Stephen D. Panshin, Jefferson P. Ward, Scott A. Linn, James Michael Gardner
  • Patent number: 11413876
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a controller configured to perform at least one of storing apparatus identification information stored in a memory into a cartridge memory via a cartridge interface and storing cartridge identification information stored in the cartridge memory into the memory via the cartridge interface, receive permission application information from another apparatus via a communication interface, determine whether or not reception identification information included in the received permission application information is identical to the apparatus identification information or the cartridge identification information stored in the memory, and transmit permission information representing that the said another apparatus is permitted to perform printing, to the said another apparatus via the communication interface, when determining that the cartridge has been removed from the attachment case and that the reception identification information is identical to the apparatus identification inf
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobumasa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11392808
    Abstract: A paper management system setting a paper information piece of paper stored in a sheet feeding unit in an image forming apparatus from a list of paper information pieces registers the paper information pieces with a favorite group, displays a list of the paper information pieces for each favorite group, and enables the list of the paper information pieces to be associated with a paper feed unit through the screen displaying the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yusuke Kimura, Yuzo Harano, Hideaki Ooba, Aya Ito, Nobuhiro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 11254122
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an extraction unit configured to extract an image for position detection from job image data; a first image forming unit configured to form the image for position detection on a recording medium; a second image forming unit disposed on a downstream in a feeding direction of the recording medium relative to the first image forming unit; a first detection unit configured to detect the image for position detection formed by the first image forming unit; and a determining unit configured to determine a correction amount of an image forming position of the second image forming unit based on a position of the image for position detection that is detected by the detection unit and a position of the image for position detection in the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Chikara Manabe, Masato Matsuzuki, Yoshiyuki Taguchi, Kunio Miyakoshi, Maki Hasegawa, Masashi Hiratsuka
  • Patent number: 11161308
    Abstract: A system and methods for solid freeform fabrication of an object is disclosed. The system comprises a solid freeform fabrication apparatus having a plurality of dispensing heads, a building material supply apparatus configured to supply a plurality of building materials to the fabrication apparatus, and a control unit configured for controlling the fabrication apparatus and the supply apparatus based on an operation mode selected from a plurality of predetermined operation modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Stratasys Ltd.
    Inventors: Moshe Levi, Guy Menchik, Eduardo Napadensky
  • Patent number: 11093181
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus using an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet and a display unit configured to display information includes at least one controller, the at least one controller configured to function as a management unit configured to manage print data in association with user information, the management unit configured to discriminably manage information about previously-printed print data and information about imprinted print data, and a unit configured to display on the display unit a user selection screen on which a plurality of selection objects corresponding to the user information is arrangeable and on which the selection object corresponding to the user information associated with the unprinted print data is arranged while no selection object corresponding to the user information associated with the previously-printed print data but not associated with the unprinted print data is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Zhi Lin
  • Patent number: 11027489
    Abstract: A method for carrying out additive manufacture while regulating material consumption, comprises making a digital representation of at least part of an object for printing, the representation comprising a plurality of voxels, and then identifying voxels which are flexible in respect of being able to consist of any one of at least two available materials. A balanced material consumption policy is then used to choose between the available materials so as to ensure that as far as possible, different materials are evenly used and wastage is minimized. Finally the object is printed with the selected materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Stratasys Ltd.
    Inventors: Avraham Teken, Boris Belocon
  • Patent number: 10929074
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives an instruction to obtain a model information file, which is list information regarding models controllable by a common control program, an input unit that, if the reception unit receives the instruction to obtain the model information file, inputs identification information regarding the information processing apparatus, and an obtaining unit that obtains, from an external management apparatus, a model information file corresponding to the identification information input by the input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Iwasawa
  • Patent number: 10887484
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided and controls a display device to cause a display of an object associated with specific user information in a user selection screen to notify information relating to the number of pieces of specific print data associated with the specific user information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akari Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 10802774
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a feeding unit to supply a sheet, an acquiring unit, a fixing unit, a printing unit, a determining unit, and a comparing unit. The acquiring unit acquires, as a number, a remaining amount of sheets existing in the feeding unit. The fixing unit fixes a number of sheets required for a printing process per a certain unit for an accepted print job. The printing unit performs the printing process for the print job. The determining unit determines whether a restriction is imposed on interruption of the printing process for the print job. If, in comparing the remaining amount of sheets with the required number of sheets, the comparing unit determines that the remaining amount of sheets is greater than or equal to the required number of sheets, the printing unit starts the printing process for the print job regardless of whether the restriction is imposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Fumiaki Hirose
  • Patent number: 10732610
    Abstract: An information processing terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention acquires information about an expendable part including a modeling material to be used in modeling by a control apparatus configured to model a three-dimensional object, and displays information about the number of objects that can be modeled in a form corresponding to a predetermined object by the control apparatus with the amount of the modeling material remaining in the expendable part corresponding to the acquired information and also displays information specifying the shape and size of the predetermined object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Dohi
  • Patent number: 10565545
    Abstract: A drug inspection support apparatus inspects drugs that are prepared based on prescription information and are packaged in a prescription bag. A drug database stores drug master images of drugs that can be prepared. A first drug determination section compares drug master images from the drug database with a captured image obtained by capturing an image of prepared drugs, and determines drugs present in the captured image and the number of drugs. A list creation section creates a list displaying drug master images of drugs, which are prepared according to a prescription, and drug area images, which are determined to be respective drugs in a captured image, so that the positions thereof are aligned with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM TOYAMA CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Yonaha, Tetsuya Takamori, Ippei Takahashi, Seigo Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10538105
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires first shape data representing a shape of ink unevenness, a first determination unit that determines a direction of a pattern of the ink unevenness based on the first shape data, a second determination unit that determines a rotation angle for changing the direction of the pattern of the ink unevenness based on at least one of a movement direction of a head of a printer and a movement direction of a recording medium, and a generation unit that generates second shape data representing a shape having a pattern in at least one of the movement direction of the head and the movement direction of the recording medium based on the first shape data and the rotation angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi Totsuka
  • Patent number: 10444688
    Abstract: An editing apparatus, including a display and a controller configured to: obtain a size of a printing medium; obtain a layout, with respect to the printing medium, of a print object to be printed on the printing medium; obtain a length of a circumference of an adherend to which the printing medium is to be stuck; and execute a display control process of displaying, on the display, the layout such that an overlap portion and a non-overlap portion of the printing medium are distinguishable, the overlap portion being a portion of the printing medium which is covered, when the printing medium is stuck along the circumference of the adherend in order from one end to the other end of the printing medium in its specific direction, by a portion of the printing medium including the other end, the non-overlap portion being a portion of the printing medium except the overlap portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junya Kawai
  • Patent number: 10414149
    Abstract: The system includes a predictive model trained to estimate an amount of material to be used to fabricate three-dimensional objects. The system further includes an estimation component that receives information regarding the three-dimensional object. The estimation component, using the predictive model, estimates the amount of material to be used to fabricate the three-dimensional object based upon the information regarding the three-dimensional object. The estimation component compares the estimated amount of material with an available amount to determine whether the material available is less than the estimated amount of material to fabricate the three-dimensional object. When it is determined the material available is less than the estimated amount of material, the estimation component can perform an action such as preventing commencement of a fabrication process and/or providing information to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lakshmi Narayana Mummidi, Parmjeet Singh
  • Patent number: 10410199
    Abstract: A print control system 1 includes a barcode reader BR; a printer 12 that receives read result data transmitted from the barcode reader BR and transmits the read result data by a WebSocket connection CT; a control server 10 that receives and transmits the read result data from the printing device; a management device 14 that receives and transmits the read result data from the control server 10; and a tablet terminal 9 that receives the read result data from the management device 14 and generates print command data based on the read result data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeo Tajima
  • Patent number: 10162829
    Abstract: Adaptive parallel data processing techniques are described. In one or more embodiments, a request is received to process a data file. The data file is split into multiple portions and sent to multiple nodes, where each node is configured to process a respective portion of the data file. Responsive to an amount of processing of the data file being completed, at least one of the multiple portions of the data file is dynamically split into multiple sub-portions. The sub-portions are submitted to one or more of the multiple nodes for processing of the sub-portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Peter S. MacLeod
  • Patent number: 10093061
    Abstract: A supply of build material such as a spool or cartridge is instrumented with a data tag that includes information about the build material. A three-dimensional printer can read the information from the tag and determine how to use the build material during fabrication of a three-dimensional object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: MakerBot Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Ariel Douglas, Robert J. Steiner, Aric Lynn Jennings, William B. Buel, Anthony D. Moschella
  • Patent number: 10071524
    Abstract: A printing method for printing a multi-material 3D model comprises the following steps: perform a slicing process on a multi-material 3D object to generate the multi-material object slices and the object slices of a useful object; compute a material-switching point and a retrieving point during the slicing process; print the multi-material object slices of a multi-material 3D model with one of the materials; when print to the material-switching point, switch to another different material and print useful objects with the material used before the material switching; when print to the retrieving point, print the multi-material object slices with the material used after the material switching; and repeat the above steps until completing the multi-material 3D model printing. The present disclosed example prints the useful object via the remaining materials after the material switching which effectively reduces the cost with of multi-materials printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignees: XYZPRINTING, INC., KINPO ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Chuan Chang, Kwan Ho, Yang-Teh Lee
  • Patent number: 9961085
    Abstract: A network entity that allows collaboration among end users of a collaborative application by using different identifiers. The network entity receives an authentication request from a collaborative application to authenticate an end user. The network entity uses a first identifier of the end user that is associated with the network entity to verify that end user is permitted to use the collaborative application and informs the collaborative application that the end user is permitted to use the collaborative application. The network entity receives from the collaborative application a second identifier of the end user that is not associated with the network entity. The second identifier is linked to the first identifier. The network entity allows the second identifier to be used to authenticate the user with the collaborative application without the need to use the first identifier when a collaborative session is begun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Chetan Pentam Raghavendra
  • Patent number: 9836764
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic device and computer program product, and the computer program product includes an application that is loaded into the electronic device to perform the method as follows. After a user logs into his account, the selected mobile advertisement is accepted and then played; when the mobile advertisement is selected or played, it offers a record of promotion information to be stored in the user account, the promotion information includes at least one of the following: points, a voucher, and a discount coupon, in which the point is utilized to redeem goods. At least one photo of the user account is selected, so that the portable printer can print this photo through a wireless transmission unit of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: HiTi Digital, Inc.
    Inventors: Hung-Chan Chien, Shi-Kai Lin, Meng-Wei Su, Fu-Anita Huang
  • Patent number: 9742929
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying problematic printers are provided. An example method can involve determining a time interval for a printing device. The method may also involve determining a number of pages printed by the printing device during the time interval. The method may also involve determining a number of printing-device errors that occur on the printing device during the time interval. Still further, the method may involve determining one or more coefficients of a Markov chain based on the number of pages printed by the printing device during the time interval and the number of printing-device errors that occur on the printing device during the time interval. The method yet further includes, based on the determined coefficients of the Markov chain, determining an operational status of the printing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Oleg Y. Zakharov
  • Patent number: 9736330
    Abstract: A system creates a copy of a document by: receiving an electronic representation a document to be copied onto a substrate; identifying a non-invasive watermark to be printed on the substrate; analyzing the document and the non-invasive watermark to determine whether a threshold amount of the non-invasive watermark can be printed in a white space of the document; and creating a secure copy of the document with the watermark. If the threshold amount of the non-invasive watermark can be printed in the white space, the system will print at least a portion the non-invasive watermark in the white space. Otherwise, the system will modify at least a portion of the non-invasive watermark to comprise an invasive watermark portion, and it will print the invasive watermark portion over a portion of the document's content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Reiner Eschbach, Phillip J. Emmett, Edward N. Chapman
  • Patent number: 9703511
    Abstract: A control point includes a communication interface to search for one or more image forming apparatuses using digital living network alliance (DLNA), a user interface unit through which at least one piece of content is selected for printing using a user interface of the control point, and through which an image forming apparatus is selected from among the searched image forming apparatuses to perform printing, a DLNA stack unit to set a connection policy regarding connection to the selected image forming apparatus, and to selectively control the DLNA connection status to the selected image forming apparatus according to the connection policy, and a controller to control the communication interface to transmit print data corresponding to the selected content-for-printing and the connection policy to the selected image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hwang-hyeon Gha
  • Patent number: 9705876
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of notifying a user of violation of the information security policy or preventing execution of the job from being stopped. A password policy set via a password policy-setting screen. A password-added print job transmitted from a PC is stored in a storage device. A user inputs a password so as to execute processing of the password-added print job stored in the storage device. If the password input by the user matches the password added to the job, processing of the password-added print job is executed. It is determined whether or not the password added to the print job satisfies the password policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoya Kakutani
  • Patent number: 9665720
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which is capable of properly updating firmware. Update firmware is downloaded into a download area of an HDD and expanded and stored in a temporary expansion area of the HDD. A CPU determines whether or not the update firmware expanded and stored in the temporary expansion area has been tampered with. The update firmware stored in the temporary storage area is applied to the image forming apparatus when the CPU determines that the update firmware has not been tampered with.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoko Tokumoto
  • Patent number: 9656480
    Abstract: A printing system includes a storage unit, a print unit and a control unit. The storage unit includes a print media catalog including a list of print media, each print medium in the list having a plurality of media attribute values characterizing the print medium, and each print medium categorized in at least one group based on at least one media attribute value. The print unit includes a print head for ejecting marking material on a print medium of the list. The control unit is configured to control the printing on a print medium of the list according to a plurality of optimization parameters, an optimization parameter being related to the at least one media attribute value used for categorization in a group of the at least one group. Upon receipt of a value of a particular optimization parameter for a print medium categorized in a particular group of the at least one group, the received value is automatically propagated to other print media categorized in the same particular group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: OCÉ-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Josephus A.M. Van Dun, Paul Dekkers, Amar Kalloe
  • Patent number: 9649865
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technique that simplifies operations for making appropriate print settings. Accordingly, a terminal apparatus serving as an information processing apparatus according to the present invention acquires, from a printing apparatus, information indicating the sheet type and size of the sheets set in each paper feed tray. Then, the terminal apparatus determines whether the acquired information includes a sheet type that matches a sheet type suitable for an attribute of information selected by a user as a print target. If it is determined that the information includes a sheet type that matches the suitable sheet type, the terminal apparatus generates print data including information designating a paper feed tray containing sheets of the matching sheet type, and transmits the generated print data to the printing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Ito, Mitsuru Konji
  • Patent number: 9527245
    Abstract: Provided is a method of 3D printing with the use of a heater-free, hand-held 3D printing device such as a 3D printing pen. The method consists of adjusting the extrusion feed rate of the substance through the orifice with the use of a substance feed mechanism to provide curing conditions at which the extruded substance maintains a shape-sustaining state; extruding the substance; and curing the extruded substance to the shape-sustaining state by irradiating the extruded substance outside the device with light-radiation elements such as LEDs. The feed rate of the extrusion is carried out once, experimentally, before multiple practical use of the heater-free 3D printing device. The extrudable substance is a photopolymerizable polymer composition that has kinematic viscosity in the range of 7.00 to 10.00 MM2/C when measured at room temperature by the capillarity method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: CREOPOP PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Dmitry Starodubtsev
  • Patent number: 9513846
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus receives print data from a client PC and analyzes a hierarchical structure relating to an item indicating a delimiter of a document included in the received print data. The image forming apparatus determines an insertion point at which an index sheet is inserted into a printed matter of the print data based on the results of analysis of the hierarchical structure. Then, the image forming apparatus inserts the index sheet into the printed matter at the determined insertion point and outputs the resulting printed matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yohei Kiuchi
  • Patent number: 9497347
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a storage section that stores programs for carrying out processes, an updating data selection section that selects an updating data for at least one of programs from an updating data group, based on a program that is started or is startable, and an updating section that updates at least one arbitrary program stored in the storage section based on the selected updating data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hisanori Kawaura
  • Patent number: 9494990
    Abstract: A disclosed electric power consumption computation device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire apparatus information from an apparatus connected to the electric power consumption computation device via a predetermined data communication path, and a computation unit configured to compute electric power consumption of the apparatus based on information on a number of output sheets output by the apparatus contained in the apparatus information acquired by the acquisition unit and a TEC value of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventor: Jun Murata
  • Patent number: 9403384
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage that includes a recording head performing recording on a recording medium, and an edge detection unit detecting an edge of the recording medium, and is movable in a predetermined direction, in which, in a state in which the carriage is positioned at a predetermined position, the edge detection unit is positioned in a passing region of the recording medium in the movement direction of the carriage, and the predetermined position is a home position of the carriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakata, Kazumasa Harada, Yoshiyuki Okazawa
  • Patent number: 9372840
    Abstract: A stored document is converted into a “web-friendly” format by dividing the conversion job into chunks. Each chunk specifies a subset of the document pages to be converted. The result of processing a chunk is a set of “web-friendly” page images. The page images are stored in a repository and are available for viewing at the client. The remaining chunks are processed in a similar manner. The perceived performance of the system is enhanced because a chunk can be processed much faster than the entire document. If the user happens to advance to a page in the document that is not yet processed, a real-time request is made to process a particular subset of pages that includes the page advanced to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: EMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nitesh Golchha, Vikram Bheemaiah, Srinivas Veeravalli, Derek Zasiewski
  • Patent number: 9348543
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus of a network system requests a distribution system for firmware, acquires the firmware from the distribution system, applies the firmware, and notifies the distribution system about version information for specific firmware relating to a function that performs application time designation. The distribution system of the network system manages version information for the firmware based on a notice from the image forming apparatus, provides a screen for a distribution setting for the firmware with the image forming apparatus, provides a first screen on which the time designation for applying the firmware is enabled, or a second screen on which the time designation is disabled by switching the screens for each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses based on the version information for the specific firmware managed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masanori Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 9223947
    Abstract: An authentication apparatus may include a storage unit, an analysis unit, and an authentication unit. The storage unit may be configured to store pieces of authentication information and an authentication order of the pieces of authentication information. The analysis unit may be configured to compare pieces of input information with the pieces of authentication information and to compare an input order of the pieces of input information with the authentication order. The authentication unit may be configured to authorize the pieces of input information if the comparison shows that the pieces of input information match the pieces of authentication information as necessary to authenticate and the input order of the pieces of input information matches the authentication order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Kentaro Sakuramoto
  • Patent number: 9122216
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit, an interface unit which is connected to a host apparatus and at least one of other image forming apparatuses, an image forming unit which prints image data received through the interface unit, and a controller which, if image data is received when the image forming apparatus is in a normal mode, controls the image forming unit to perform an image forming job using the image data, and if the image data is received when the image forming apparatus is in a power saving mode, controls the interface unit to transmit the image data to another image forming apparatus so that the another image forming apparatus performs an image forming job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-kyu Park, Jin-hwi Jun, Jung-ho Bang
  • Patent number: 8970889
    Abstract: The information processing apparatus receives a screen for setting positional information about an image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus and displays the screen, acquires positional information about the information processing apparatus in response to the selection of settings for the positional information via the screen by a user, and transmits the acquired positional information about the information processing apparatus to the image forming apparatus. In this manner, the positional information about the information processing apparatus is set as the positional information about the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ritsuto Sako
  • Patent number: 8934120
    Abstract: A digital living network alliance (DLNA) device. The DLNA device includes a communication interface to search for image forming apparatuses connectable to the DLNA device using a DLNA guideline, and to search for contents provided by a web server using a (web) browser; a user interface to receive a command to print at least one of the searched contents, and to receive a selection of an image forming apparatus to perform a printing job from among the searched image forming apparatuses; a content information acquisition unit to obtain information regarding the an address of at least one content to be printed in the web server; a printing job generation unit to generate a printing job including the obtained information regarding the address of the at least one content; and a controlling unit to control the selected image forming apparatus to receive the at least one content using the information regarding the address of the at least one content and to print the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun-seung Lee
  • Patent number: 8814450
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided that uses a consumable item, of given type, requiring occasional renewal. The apparatus has a first operating mode in which it only works with a subset of consumable items of the given type; the apparatus also has a second operating mode in which it is not restricted to working with consumable items of the aforesaid subset. The apparatus is changed from its first mode to its second mode following a determination that the apparatus has reached a predetermined time or usage threshold for being in its first mode. The change to the second mode is preferably effected in response to a release code generated either by the apparatus itself or by a remote system following the determination that the predetermined time or usage threshold being reached. Advantageously, the consumable items can be used to pass usage data to a remote system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Yearworth, Michal Morciniec
  • Patent number: 8770871
    Abstract: To provide a technique for outputting printing image data to a printing device using a colored ink, and a special glossy ink having special gloss, including a field discrimination part for discriminating whether there is an adjacent field, in which a special glossy field that is expressed using the special glossy ink and a color production field that is expressed using the colored ink are adjacent in the direction of the image plane; a special gloss boundary processor for adjusting the image data so that the ink volume of the special glossy ink affixed to the special glossy field is gradually reduced from the special glossy field towards the color production field in a case where an adjacent field is present; and an output part for outputting the printing image data based on the adjusted image data the printing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Sakai, Mitsuhiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8734034
    Abstract: An image representation of an image and printing specifications describing how the image is to be printed may be accepted at a device. A predicted ink drop count may be calculated by a processor in the device using the image representation and a printer imaging step, the printer imaging step to convert image data into printer data. A predicted ink use value may be calculated by processor based on the predicted ink drop count, predicted ink drop weights, the image representation (e.g., a histogram) and the printing specifications. Actual ink use during a printing operation may be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter Morovic, Jordi Vilar, Jan Morovic
  • Patent number: 8736895
    Abstract: A tape printing apparatus compares a back-side background region of print data to be previously printed and a front-side background region of print data to be subsequently printed upon receipt of plural print data including background. If they are different, the tape printing apparatus creates a front-side color mixture tolerance region and a back-side color mixture tolerance region based on the front-side background region and the back-side background region, respectively, so that the front-side color mixture tolerance region and the back-side color mixture tolerance region are arranged continuously. The apparatus sets cut positions at a front edge border and a back edge border of each print data and cut the tape off at those portions while carrying out full-color print on the tape based on respective print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kishiro Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Kato, Susumu Murata, Ryosuke Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8714847
    Abstract: A tape printer which prints an inputted character string on a tape includes: an input unit receiving input of the character string; a detecting unit detecting a keyword which contains a first character string expressing a number from the character string received by the input unit; and a printing unit performing sequential number printing which repeats printing while sequentially changing the first character string when the detecting unit detects the keyword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Akinori Tsuji