Patents Assigned to Xerox
  • Publication number: 20200236243
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit that, in a case where plural keyword candidates representing information on an acquisition target are included in a document, sets a target keyword from the keyword candidates in accordance with priority information of defining a keyword to be preferentially used as the target keyword representing an item of the information on the acquisition target among the keyword candidates, an extraction unit that extracts a character string corresponding to the target keyword set by the setting unit, from the document, and an output unit that outputs the character string corresponding to the target keyword, which is extracted by the extraction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Junichi SHIMIZU, Daigo HORIE
  • Publication number: 20200233363
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit that forms a first toner layer on a medium on which an image is to be formed, a first fixing unit that fixes the first toner layer onto the medium, a second image forming unit that forms a second toner layer on the first toner layer on the medium by using a toner having a melting point lower than a melting point of a toner that is included in the first toner layer, and a second fixing unit that performs, in a state in which a foil layer is superposed on the second toner layer, a fixing operation at a temperature lower than a temperature at which the first fixing unit performs a fixing operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunihiko SATO, Yuki NAGAMORI, Keitaro MORI, Mitsuhiro MATSUMOTO, Aya KAKISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20200236228
    Abstract: A control device includes a first mode in which plural pieces of information posted to a chat are managed for each piece of information and a second mode in which plural pieces of information are collectively managed as one information group includes a control unit that, in a case where plural pieces of information are received, performs control for switching whether to manage the plural pieces of information in the first mode or to manage the plural pieces of information in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusaku AWATSU
  • Publication number: 20200236247
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes plural communication units, a determination unit, and a controller. The plural communication units are configured to be capable of conducting a wireless communication. The determination unit is configured to determine a communication unit from among the plural communication units in accordance with whether a mobile communication terminal that is attempting to conduct a communication is approaching the information processing apparatus. The controller is configured to perform a control so as to start the communication using the communication unit determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Sakayama
  • Publication number: 20200230872
    Abstract: A shaping apparatus includes a stand that includes a shaping surface on which a product is shaped; a feeder that feeds a linear material obtained by impregnating continuous fiber with resin; a pressing portion that presses the material fed by the feeder against the stand; and an angle setting portion that sets an angle formed between the material fed from the feeder to the pressing portion and the shaping surface to be an acute angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro KATSUTA
  • Patent number: 10719201
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes: obtaining plural items of writing information including writing position information and writing timing information, each of the plural items of writing information being associated with one page of one document; displaying an image in accordance with plural items of writing information associated with an identical page among the obtained plural items of writing information; receiving a specified writing timing; updating a display mode of the displayed image in accordance with the received writing timing; and changing an association between at least one of the plural items of writing information corresponding to the displayed image and a document, based on the received writing timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Noguchi, Shunji Sakai, Takeshi Chiba
  • Patent number: 10719022
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner has a surface property index value represented by Formula S of 2.0 to 2.8, an electrostatic charge image developing toner has a surface property index value represented by Formula S of more than 2.8 and 3.5 or less, and an electrostatic charge image developing toner has a surface property index value represented by Formula S of more than 1.0 and less than 2.0 and a calculated value of a specific surface area in Formula S of 0.70 to 1.3: (Surface property index value)=(Measured value of specific surface area)/(Calculated value of specific surface area)??Formula S wherein (Calculated value of specific surface area)=(Sum of surface areas calculated from equivalent circle diameters of 4,500 toner particles in flow particle image analysis)/{(Specific gravity of toner)×(Sum of volumes calculated from equivalent circle diameters of 4,500 toner particles in flow particle image analysis)}.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kadokura, Atsushi Sugawara, Daisuke Tomita, Sakiko Hirai, Satoshi Miura, Akira Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10719041
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a charging unit that charges the surface of the image holding member, an electrostatic charge image forming unit that forms an electrostatic charge image on the charged surface of the image holding member, a developing unit that includes a developer containing toner particles containing a release agent having a melting temperature ranging from 60° C. to 100° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro Igarashi, Naoki Ota, Yusuke Fukuda, Makoto Kamisaki, Yasuhisa Morooka, Jun Sekiya, Teppei Yawada, Masataka Kuribayashi, Takafumi Koide, Katsuyuki Kitajima, Shota Oshima
  • Patent number: 10720062
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated vehicle guidance based on coded lighting to enable automated vehicle following and/or regrouping. Systems use projectors to project temporal identifiers for space partitioned by pixel projections. Different space partition is associated with a different identifier. By using simple light sensors mounted on the vehicles, and decoding the sensed light signal, the vehicle can determine its precise location in the space relative to the coded light projector. This information may be used for precise vehicle guidance to enable vehicle following and/or regrouping. For vehicle following, the coded light projector is placed on a moving vehicle. For vehicle regrouping, the coded light projector may be placed on a ground or on a pole. Depending on the guidance precision requirements, the coded light precision may be adjusted by using light projectors with different resolutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiong Liu, Shang Ma, Sven Kratz
  • Patent number: 10719598
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for providing enhanced level of security for devices and/or applications on the devices. The method includes receiving a request from a user for setting a secure code as PIN with pattern option for accessing a device, for example. Then, a touch based keypad having a series of dots is displayed, each dot is associated with a pre-defined number. The secure code as input by the user is received, wherein the secure code is a combination of PIN and pattern. Then, the secure code is stored in the form of numbers along with pattern for the user. Thereafter, a request for accessing the device is received. The user is prompted to input a secure code. The secure code input by the user is matched with the stored secure code. Based on the matching, the user is allowed to access the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Purushothaman Jayakumar
  • Patent number: 10719027
    Abstract: A cleaning body includes a shaft and an elastic layer disposed by being spirally wound around an outer circumferential surface of the shaft from one end to the other end of the shaft, wherein a relationship between line roughness of a protruding portion formed at an end portion of the elastic layer in a width direction (RaE) and line roughness of a center portion of the elastic layer in the width direction (RaV) satisfies 5?RaE/RaV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fuyuki Kano, Yasuhiko Kinuta, Akihiro Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10717305
    Abstract: Methods, Apparatus, Devices and Systems herein load a firing distance into a distance counter of a printing device. The firing distance is the distance from the current position of a printhead of the printing device to a marking location on a substrate and the distance is calculated based on an angular encoder operatively associated with a roller used to transport a marking media to the printhead for marking. These devices and methods count the firing distance in angular distance increments as a function of the encoder angular position to correct for encoder roller runout using the distance counter, based on relative movement of the substrate and printhead. When the distance counter reaches the last discrete distance increment corrected for encoder roller runout of the firing distance, these devices and methods load the fractional remaining distance of the firing distance into a time counter of the printing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Patricia Joanne Donaldson
  • Patent number: 10717298
    Abstract: A method of operating an inkjet printer that forms textual data with non-absorbing media ink on non-absorbing media forms the characters with structure that improves the integrity of the edges of the characters over previously known systems. The method includes modifying character pixels in image data used to generate firing signals for operating inkjets in a print head of an inkjet imaging device, generating firing signals for operating the inkjets from the modified character pixels, and operating the inkjets in the print head with the generated firing signals to eject drops of non-absorbing media ink onto non-absorbing media to form characters on the non-absorbing media. The character pixel modification reduces a number of character pixels in a connecting zone of a character that have a value that corresponds to a firing signal that activates an inkjet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Mantell, Chu-Heng Liu, Seemit Praharaj, Stuart A. Schweid
  • Patent number: 10717284
    Abstract: A capping station is configured for storing printheads during printer inactivity to preserve the viscosity of the ink in the nozzles of the printheads. Each capping station has a receptacle, a planar member having a shaft that moves bidirectionally within an opening in a floor of the receptacle, a source of cleaning fluid, and a vacuum source. A controller is operatively connected to actuators to move the receptacle so a seal on an upper wall of the receptacle engages a printhead housing and to move the planar member within the receptacle. The controller also operates a pump to move cleaning fluid through the receptacle and to operate the vacuum source to pull ink from the nozzles of a printhead to the faceplate of the printhead. The planar member is moved proximate the faceplate so the ink forms a film that preserves the viscosity of the ink in the nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy G. Shelhart, Piotr Sokolowski, Sean R. Keyes, Ana R. Fietz-Bogota
  • Patent number: 10717230
    Abstract: A method for printing an object using a high power one-dimensional (1D) line laser imager for selective laser sintering of thermal plastics. The technique is a two-step process. First, a layer of fresh powder is deposited on top of an existing powder bed. Second, the powder is sintered with the line laser print head. The laser is modulated at the source or with a spatial light modulator. Multiple passes or imagers can be used for increased part width and productivity. Using the relative travel between energy receiving surface and the laser print head in the direction perpendicular to the laser imaging line, a 2D pattern is imaged. Multiple print head can be aligned and joined to form a wider laser print head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Chu-heng Liu
  • Patent number: 10721366
    Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) to provide a plurality of finishing options for a print job is disclosed. For example, the GUI includes a mimic window to provide real-time animations of selected document parameter options and finishing options and a finishing options window below the mimic window, the options window comprising. The finishing options window includes a plurality of document parameter options and a plurality of finishing options that are displayed below the plurality of document parameter options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Jeremy Griffith
  • Patent number: 10717824
    Abstract: A method of producing a polymer aerogel can include dissolving gel precursors consisting of radical polymerizable monomers and crosslinkers, radical initiators, and a chain transfer agent (CTA) in a reaction solvent, wherein the monomers and cross-linkers produce stiff homopolymers; placing the gel precursors into a substrate; polymerizing the gel on the substrate; optionally removing the wet gel from the mold; optionally performing at least one solvent exchange on the gel; and removing the reaction solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignees: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Mahati Chintapalli, Barkev Keoshkerian, Gabriel Iftime, Quentin Van Overmeere
  • Patent number: 10719021
    Abstract: A toner and a toner process including providing at least one hybrid metallic toner component selected from the group consisting of hybrid metallic-latex particles, hybrid metallic-wax particles, hybrid metallic-colorant particles, and combinations thereof; contacting the at least one hybrid metallic toner component with one or more components selected from the group consisting of a latex polymer, a wax; and a colorant to form a blend; heating the blend at a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the latex polymer to form aggregated toner particles; adding a coalescing agent to the toner particles thereby coalescing the toner particles; and recovering the toner particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Linda Jan
  • Patent number: 10719794
    Abstract: An operation support apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a file and environment information from a terminal, the file pertaining to operation support received by a user of the terminal, the environment information indicating an operation environment of the terminal, a screen generator that generates image data of a screen referenced when performing the operation support based on the received file and environment information, and an output unit that outputs the generated image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Ogura
  • Patent number: 10716299
    Abstract: An underwater mobile body includes: a movement control unit that controls movement underwater; a detection unit that moves underwater under the control of the movement control unit and that detects a position of a fish; and a guidance unit that guides the fish based on the position of the fish detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motofumi Baba, Tsutomu Kimura, Kengo Tokuchi, Akihito Yamauchi, Yoshihiko Nemoto, Masahiro Sato