Patents Assigned to Xerox
  • Scanned image disclosure apparatus, method and storage medium; electronic mail transmission apparatus, method and storage medium; and internet facsimile transmission apparatus
    Patent number: 7958358
    Abstract: A scanned image disclosure apparatus has a disclosure unit that encrypts and discloses to a disclosure destination a scanned image by using a public key or a private key relating to a public key certificate that has been verified to be valid, a re-verification unit that judges whether or not re-verification of the validity of the public key certificate is necessary during execution for the disclosure unit and performs re-verification if it is judged to be necessary, a termination unit that terminates the execution for the disclosure unit if the public key certificate was judged to be invalid by the re-verification unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Masui, Masato Sugii, Makoto Takada, Nobumi Kusano
  • Apparatus, method and system for feedforward of sheet electrostatic tacking parameters to image transfer subsystem in image transfer apparatus
    Patent number: 7957656
    Abstract: A toner image transfer assembly has a tacking assembly, an image transfer assembly, and a media transport assembly. The tacking assembly senses critical properties of media while electrostatically tacking media to a transport device. The tacking assembly forwards data corresponding to the sensed electrical properties to the image transfer assembly so that the image transfer assembly anticipates the electrical properties of an approaching media type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Steven R. Moore, Paul J. DeGruchy, Peter J. Knausdorf, Gerald M. Fletcher
  • Decoding apparatus, dequantization method, and computer readable medium storing program thereof
    Patent number: 7957607
    Abstract: There is provided a decoding apparatus that decodes data encoded by transform coding in units of predefined image areas, including a coefficient setting unit that sets modification coefficients for each of the image areas; and a dequantized value generating unit that generates a dequantized value corresponding to a first quantized index value of a target area which is an image area to be modified, based on the first quantized index value of the target area, a second quantized index value of other image area in predetermined relative position to the target area, and the modification coefficients set by the coefficient setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunichi Kimura
  • Electrostatic developing toner, method of producing the same, electrostatic developer and image forming method
    Patent number: 7955774
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner comprising a non-crystalline polyester resin, wherein the non-crystalline polyester resin is obtained by copolymerizing monomers in the presence of a titanium catalyst; the monomers comprise a polyhydric alcohol component and a monomer containing a sulfonic acid group, the polyhydric alcohol component comprises a propylene oxide adduct of bisphenol A, a ratio of an amount of the monomer containing a sulfonic acid group to the total amount of the non-crystalline polyester resin is 0.1 mol % to 20 mol %, and a content of titanium is 1 ppm to 1000 ppm by weight based on the amount of the resin. The invention also provides a method for producing the same, an electrostatic image developer and image forming method using the toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Maehata, Susumu Yoshino, Noriyuki Mizutani, Satoshi Yoshida
  • GENERATING AND RANKING INFORMATION UNITS INCLUDING DOCUMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH DOCUMENT ENVIRONMENTS
    Publication number: 20110131536
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to forming information units. Digital documents associated with collaborative navigation behavior information can be identified and an information unit can be generated using transition probabilities calculated from collaborative navigation information. The information unit including at least a subset of the digital documents identified in the collaborative navigation behavior information. A rank of information unit based on the collaborative navigation behavior information can be calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Peng, Tong Sun
  • SELECTING BLENDED REGIONS OF COLOR SPACE
    Publication number: 20110128558
    Abstract: A method for adjusting the color of an image is provided. The image includes a plurality of pixels. The method includes receiving a natural language command to adjust a selected color of at least a portion of the image; determining a selection value for a pixel of interest by comparing a location of a color of the pixel of interest within a color space to a plurality of planes defining a multi-dimensional boundary of a portion of the color space corresponding to the selected color; and adjusting, based on the natural language command, the selected color of the pixel or the pixels of at least the portion of the image determined to be within the portion of the color space corresponding to the selected color. The selection value is representative of whether the pixel of interest lies within the portion of the color space corresponding to the selected color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Thomas STEVENS, Kenneth Carlton PETERSON
  • INFORMATION RETRIEVAL METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20110131214
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, a computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for retrieving information. The process includes an extracting process, an executing process, a first creating process, a second creating process, a determining process. The extracting process extracts, from a first composition that is an object to be searched for and that includes first sentence elements and a second composition that indicates a retrieval condition and that includes second sentence elements, the first sentence elements, the second sentence elements, and sentence element relations indicating relations between the first sentence elements and relations between the second sentence elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi UMEMOTO
  • CONTENT BASED IMAGE SELECTION FOR AUTOMATIC PHOTO ALBUM GENERATION
    Publication number: 20110129159
    Abstract: A method is employed to present image from an event. A plurality of images from the event are received and one or more clusters of images are created, wherein each cluster of images has a similarity greater than a predetermined threshold. A density value of the data distribution within each cluster is estimated and at least one local maximum associated with each cluster is identified via a density function. At least one image from each cluster is selected, wherein each image is a candidate for the presentation. A layout is created to present the images selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Claudio Cifarelli
  • SOLID INKS INCORPORATING A POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE COMPOUND FOR ENHANCED PROPERTIES
    Publication number: 20110130502
    Abstract: A solid phase change ink composition that includes at least one colorant and an ink vehicle. The ink vehicle further includes at least one polyhydroxyalkanoate compound of the below formula wherein R is independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group, a heteroatom, and combinations thereof, and wherein n represents the number of repeating units of from 1 to about 35,000, and wherein x represents an integer from 1 to about 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Caroline M. TUREK, Gwynne Evelyn MCANENEY LANNEN, C. Geoffrey ALLEN, Everett Alan NESS
  • ERASABLE MEDIA WITH BINDER
    Publication number: 20110130279
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide compositions and methods for an erasable medium that can include a photochromic composite containing a photochromic polymer dispersed in a polymer binder, a similar type polymer of a backbone portion of the photochromic polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gabriel IFTIME, Kentaro Morimitsu, Peter M. Kazmaier, Adela Goredema, Hadi K. Mahabadi
  • IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20110129150
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, an image processing apparatus includes a count unit, a transform unit, a first calculation unit, a second calculation unit, and a binarization unit. The count unit counts the number of pixels of an original binary image. The transform unit transforms the original binary image into a transformed image based on a given transform level. The first calculation unit calculates the number of pixels of the transformed image, based on the given transform level and the number of pixels of the original binary image. The second calculation unit calculates a threshold level based on the number of pixels for each pixel value of the transformed image and the number of pixels of the transformed image. The binarization unit binarizes the transformed image based on the threshold level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunichi KIMURA, Ikken So, Yutaka Koshi
  • CHARGING DEVICE, CARTRIDGE FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20110129257
    Abstract: A charging device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; an insulating body that is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode; wherein either the first electrode or the second electrode includes an opening portion that is formed so as to open toward a first direction in which the first electrode, the insulating body, and the second electrode are laminated, and the insulating body includes a region limiting portion which is a space that communicates with the opening portion, and opens toward a direction in which the region limiting portion communicates with the opening portion, and is limited in a second direction vertical to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masao OHMORI, Hidehiko YAMAGUCHI, Takanori MORINO
  • MACRO-PHOTOINITIATOR VIA ENZYMATIC POLYMERIZATION
    Publication number: 20110130481
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a macro-photoinitiator comprising a photoinitiator covalently bound to a polymer. Also disclosed herein is a process for the enzymatic polymerization of monomers and photoinitiators performed at atmospheric pressure and relatively low temperatures to form the macro-photoinitiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Santiago FAUCHER
  • AUTOMATIC DEVICE-INDEPENDENT ADAPTATION OF PAGE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE DATA STREAMS
    Publication number: 20110128563
    Abstract: A system and methodology are described herein that enable a network with a plurality of independent computers, with differing print drivers having generated various otherwise potentially incompatible page description language print jobs, to successfully interface with a centralized printer system through a plurality of lines by virtue of on-the-fly adaptation of the page description language stream job headers before the jobs go to a subsequently designated print device. The header is consumed and parsed to mitigate print-stream header differences by transforming the header commands into page description language commands and imbedding the page description language commands in the original page description language data, and therefrom sending on a resulting pure page description language stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel K. Rupe, Harpreet Singh Kohli
  • PHASE LOCKED IR ENCODING FOR PEENED 2D BARCODES
    Publication number: 20110127331
    Abstract: A system reveals a 2D barcode in a document. A 2D barcode generator selects the placement and at least one colorant combination of an image and at least one colorant combination for a 2D barcode on a document, where the at least one colorant combination of the image and the 2D barcode form a metameric pair. A print system receives data from the 2D barcode generator and places the image and the 2D barcode on the document. A light source selected or tuned to a wavelength corresponding to the colorant combinations utilized by the print system reveals the 2D barcode placed thereon. A decoding element decodes and extracts data from the revealed 2D barcode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yonghui Zhao, Edward Chapman, Shen-Ge Wang, Martin E. Hoover, Reiner Eschbach
  • DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20110131175
    Abstract: A document management system includes a memory and a controller. The memory stores access privilege information configured to define, for each display style of a document element displayed in an electronic document, privileges of users or user groups regarding access to a document element having a display style. In response to a request from a user to perform an operation on a document element in an electronic document, the controller controls whether the operation is executed or not on the document element, using the access privilege information stored in the memory, in accordance with a privilege among privileges of the users or user groups for a display style of the document element, the privilege being a privilege of the user or a user group to which the user belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshikazu KAWAI
  • LOCAL REGRESSION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20110129147
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, apparatus and systems for performing image processing regression for approximating multidimensional color transformation. According to an exemplary method, a shaping matrix is selected to minimize a cost function associated with a local linear regression representation of the color transformation. In addition, an alternating least squares algorithm is utilized to jointly optimize regression and shaping parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vishal Monga, Raja Bala
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING CLEANING STATION OPERATION IN A PRINTING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20110129247
    Abstract: An apparatus (100) and method (200) that adjusts cleaning station operation in a printing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus can include a charge receptor (110) movable in a process direction P, where the charge receptor can have a main surface (111). The apparatus can include a charger (140) configured to generate a charge on the charge receptor and an image generator (118) configured to generate an image on the charge receptor. The apparatus can include a cleaning station (124) coupled to the charge receptor. The cleaning station can include a cleaning brush (125) coupled to the main surface of the charge receptor. The cleaning station can be configured to clean the main surface of the charge receptor. The apparatus can include a controller (150) coupled to the cleaning station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Nicholas SOURES, Robert Steven POZNIAKAS, Roger Joseph AURIO
  • CORONA AND WEAR RESISTANT IMAGING MEMBER
    Publication number: 20110129769
    Abstract: The presently disclosed embodiments relate in general to electrophotographic imaging members, such as layered photoreceptor structures, and processes for making and using the same. More particularly, the embodiments pertain to the incorporation of an ozone quenching compound into the charge transport layer to quench the corona effluents and protect the polycarbonate binder of the charge transport layer from being attacked by ozone species, thereby enhancing wear resistance and fatigue cracking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert C. U. Yu, Stephen T. Avery, Jimmy E. Kelly
  • INCORPORATION OF AN OIL COMPONENT INTO PHASE INVERSION EMULSION PROCESS
    Publication number: 20110129774
    Abstract: A process for making a resin emulsion suitable for use in forming toner particles including an oil component incorporated into the latex core of the toner particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Valerie M. Farrugia, Kimberly D. Nosella, Edward Graham Zwartz, Barkev Keoshkerian