Patents Assigned to Xerox
  • Publication number: 20210104047
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an input unit that inputs an image, and a processor configured to read out a program stored in a memory, and executes the program. The processor is configured to detect an intended subject from the input image by a first detection method, set an intended subject region for the detected intended subject, detect the intended subject from the input image by a second detection method different from the first detection method, and update the set intended subject region by using a detection result of the second detection method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Aoi KAMO
  • Publication number: 20210103396
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: store an operation history of an operation performed for a first storage area allocated to a user, in a second storage area that is not allocated to any user; and check an available capacity of the first storage area each time a predetermined process is performed, and when the first storage area has the available capacity equal to or larger than at least a size of the operation history, perform control to change a storage destination of the operation history from the second storage area to the first storage area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koki TOSHIMITSU
  • Publication number: 20210103385
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to receive a use condition relating to use of a customized user interface from a linkage destination information processing device that is linked to the information processing device in terms of the customized user interface, acquire setting information relating to the customized user interface, the acquired setting information corresponding to the received use condition, execute processing based on the acquired setting information, and return a result of the processing to the linkage destination information processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru IZUMIYA
  • Publication number: 20210103416
    Abstract: A managing apparatus includes a processor configured to use continuous paper strips as recording media, receive multiple print jobs having different print speeds, and create print groups into which the multiple print jobs are classified according to print speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kei ARAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210103379
    Abstract: A display control device includes a processor. The processor displays plural areas. The plural areas include a first area and a second area arranged vertically, and a third area and a fourth area arranged laterally next to the first area and the second area. The first area is an area related to a search for content data by a user. The second area is an area related to a selection of content data by the user. The third area is an area related to a display of content of the content data selected in the second area. The fourth area is an area related to a user's edit of information associated with the content data displayed in the third area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoki Adachi
  • Publication number: 20210103239
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a hollow rotating body that rotates about an axis of the rotating body, a pressing member that applies, together with the rotating body, pressure to a recording medium and transports the recording medium in a transport direction along with rotation of the rotating body, a heating member that is disposed in such a manner as to be in contact with an inner surface of the rotating body while extending in an axial direction perpendicular to the transport direction and that heats the rotating body, the heating member including a contact portion at least a portion of which is brought into contact with the inner surface and non-contact portions that are positioned on either side of the contact portion in the axial direction in such a manner as not to be in contact with the rotating body and each of which has a second end portion thicker than a first end portion of the contact portion on a downstream side in the transport direction, and a holding member that holds the heating member by being b
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki MIYATA, Jouta KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210105374
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor changes darkness of an image presented in mid-air in response to a sensor detecting a user performing a mid-air gesture on the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kengo TOKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210105376
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to perform communication with another apparatus to receive a change in a function of processing data performed in the other apparatus; cause the change to be reflected in the function of the information processing apparatus; execute a process related to a first function of the information processing apparatus on first data in accordance with an instruction from a user, during a period in which communication with the other apparatus is not performed; and display information for specifying the first data in a case where a change in the first function is received from the other apparatus when communication with the other apparatus is performed after executing the process related to the first function on the first data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210103670
    Abstract: An information processing device not connected to a communication line includes a processor configured to generate information on each specific processing repeatedly executed, the information being to be managed by a management device, and refer to management information indicating information already managed by the management device, and output information which is among the generated information and not yet managed by the management device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke IZUMISAWA, Kota MATSUO, Mami YOKOHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210105259
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory and a processor, the memory being configured to, for each of users, store authentication information and fixed information in association with the user, the authentication information being variable and unique, the fixed information being invariant and unique, the processor being configured to receive the authentication information and the fixed information from an apparatus utilized by the user, and cause authentication of the user to the apparatus to succeed or fail according to a result of comparison between a combination of the received authentication information and fixed information and a combination of the authentication information and the fixed information stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shunsuke KIRYU
  • Publication number: 20210103417
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to perform control for displaying a first screen for receiving a change of setting of processing and an execution instruction of the processing, cause the screen to transition while maintaining first setting that is setting changed on the first screen, and perform notification that the first setting is changed upon receiving the execution instruction of the processing is received on the first screen in a case where a transition from the first screen to a second screen for receiving a change of second setting related to the processing or from the first screen to the second screen for receiving processing different from the processing received on the first screen is made during a period from the change of the first setting to reception of the execution instruction of the processing received on the first screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210103722
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a text acquisition unit that acquires text on the basis of a first user's operation, a reception unit that receives a keyword in response to a second user's operation; and a contact support unit that receives a contact from the second user having performed an operation on the keyword to the first user having performed an operation on the text, and notifies the first user of the contact, in a case where the text acquired by the text acquisition unit and the keyword received by the reception unit satisfy a predefined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Soushi NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210105263
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores management information and a refresh token in an associated form. The management information is associated with a user and the refresh token serves as second qualification information that is used to acquire an access token serving as first qualification information for use of a web service. The processor is configured to accept the management information, transmit to an authentication server the refresh token associated with the accepted management information and stored on the memory, receive the access token that is transmitted from the authentication server if the authentication server has verified that the transmitted refresh token is effective, and use the web service with the received access token.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fumihisa SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20210103562
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes an acquiring part that, when a data set including real data representing content of the data set and attribute data indicating an attribute of the real data is newly stored on a data storage device, acquires the attribute data from the data storage device without waiting for a user to instruct that the attribute data is to be acquired, and acquires the real data after the user instructs that the real data is to be acquired, and a notification controller that controls a notifying part to notify the user of the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the acquiring part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akira KADODA
  • Publication number: 20210101399
    Abstract: An adhesive sign suited to use in retail applications includes a substrate layer. An adhesive layer is disposed on the substrate layer. The adhesive layer defines an exposed region for attachment to an associated structure. The adhesive layer is derived from a photo-curable inkjet composition. An ink layer is disposed on the substrate layer. The ink layer includes an image. The ink layer is derived from a photo-curable inkjet composition. The adhesive layer and ink layer can be formed in the same inkjet printing process and cured in a common photo-curing station. A stack of the adhesive signs can be assembled without interleaving a release liner between each pair of signs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas K. Herrmann, Seemit Praharaj, Jason M. LeFevre, Paul J. McConville, Chu-Heng Liu
  • Publication number: 20210103498
    Abstract: An information processing device is connected to an image forming device via a network, and includes a processor configured to, in a case where backup processing or restoration processing for setting information of the image forming device is executed by way of a remote operation, associate and register device information that uniquely specifies the image forming device, and identification information for a remote operation service in which the backup processing or the restoration processing is executed by way of a remote operation, in a case where the device information and the identification information are acquired from the image forming device without the image forming device being operated remotely, prior to the backup processing or the restoration processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taku YOSHIMURA, Hiromi ICHIBA, Ryoji MATSUMURA, Hajime KAJIYAMA, Kazumoto SHINODA, Yu OHTAKE
  • Patent number: 10968068
    Abstract: A system for collating and stacking long cut retail edge marker strips exiting a roll fed high speed slitter/perforator/cutter apparatus includes a series of angled and stepped baffles configured to receive the cut retail edge marking strips and allow them to fall into and accumulate in bins formed by each angled baffle and then be removed from each bin consecutively by a pusher acting orthogonally to the bins to move and collate the retail edge markers into a final stack collated to meet a specific store planogram requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas K Herrmann, Gregory A Ludgate
  • Patent number: 10970019
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that receives a file a description format of which is to undergo conversion and a request for the conversion of the description format of the file and that performs control to cause a display device to display an image representing content of the file before the conversion of the description format of the file is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10968062
    Abstract: A transfer transporting device includes multiple rollers, an endless belt, a pair of support members, and a pair of unloading members. The rollers include a driving roller and a driven roller. The driving roller is disposed closer to an image carrier that has a toner image formed thereon and that holds the toner image. The driven roller is disposed apart from the driving roller downstream in a sheet transport direction. The endless belt is wound around the rollers. The pair of support members each have an outer wall surface facing a side end surface of the belt. The pair of support members are disposed on both sides of the belt to rotatably support a rotation shaft protruding from side end surfaces of the driving roller. The pair of unloading members are interposed between the outer wall surfaces of the pair of support members and the side end surfaces of the driving roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiromoto Yamaki
  • Patent number: 10969770
    Abstract: An inspection information prediction apparatus includes an environment-information acquisition unit that acquires environment information of a routing step through which an inspection target has been routed before an inspection step of inspecting the inspection target, a manufacturing-information acquisition unit that acquires manufacturing information of the inspection target, and a prediction unit that predicts inspection information which indicates an inspection result of an inspection portion of the inspection target determined by the manufacturing information and is obtained by applying the environment information, based on the manufacturing information of the inspection target and the environment information of the routing step through which the inspection target has been routed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Hatakeyama, Nobuhide Inaba, Shuhei Kobayakawa, Masafumi Kudo