Patents Assigned to Xerox
  • Patent number: 10935900
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes toner particles containing a binder resin; and an external additive containing silica particles, in which a coefficient of variation of a Si content is determined by determining the Si content in 0.5 ?m×0.5 ?m square regions in a surface of each of the toner particles after performing a process of dispersing the toner in water and drying the dispersed toner, and an amount of change between this coefficient of variation of the Si content and a coefficient of variation of a Si content before the process ((coefficient of variation of Si content after process)?(coefficient of variation of Si content before process)) is 0.05 or more and 0.60 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ishizuka, Narumasa Sato, Yuka Kawamoto, Erina Saito, Norimasa Ozora, Kotaro Yoshihara, Noriyuki Mizutani
  • Patent number: 10933641
    Abstract: An inkjet printer is configured with capping stations for storing printheads in the printer during periods of printer inactivity so the viscosity of the ink in the nozzles of the inkjets of the printheads does not increase significantly. Each capping station has a printhead receptacle that encloses a volume, a planar member configured to move between a first position at which the planar member is located within the printhead receptacle and a second position at which the planar member is external of the printhead receptacle, a first actuator operatively connected to the planar member, the first actuator being configured to move the planar member from the first position to the second position, and a controller configured to operate the first actuator to move the planar member from the first position to the second position to mate the planar member with a face of a printhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David A. VanKouwenberg, Linn C. Hoover, Michael J. Levy, Jason M. LeFevre, Chu-heng Liu, Paul J. McConville, Douglas K. Herrmann, Seemit Praharaj
  • Patent number: 10937213
    Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to a graphical user interface (GUI) tool that provides representations of generated charts on a map, wherein distances between representations are provided based on similarity between charts. Similarity is determined through machine learning techniques that are applied on a vectorized form of charts. Example implementations described herein encode charts into vectors using deep learning techniques, which facilitates machine learning techniques such as nearest neighbor to be utilized to determine similarity between charts based on their corresponding vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jian Zhao
  • Patent number: 10933676
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for printing a security mark via a non-fluorescent toner is disclosed. For example, the method may be executed by a processor and includes receiving an electronic file of a security mark to be printed on a substrate, determining an amount of halftone coverage for a non-fluorescent toner based on a brightness of the substrate, converting the electronic file of the security mark into a printer description language with the amount of halftone coverage that is determined, and causing the security mark to be printed on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Eliud Robles Flores
  • Patent number: 10938920
    Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying and locating assets. Data can be transmitted at regular intervals from a client to a server for processing by the server and stored in a database associated with the server. Such data characterizes the behavior of a user with respect one or more assets that communicate electronically with the server. Based on the data in the database, an indication of the status of the asset (or assets) can be determined. This indication is then utilized to assist in identifying and/or locating the asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew John Quirk, Peter J. Zehler
  • Patent number: 10936763
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first drawing information acquiring unit that acquires first drawing information used for design, a second drawing information identifying unit that identifies second drawing information associated with the first drawing information, a basic policy information acquiring unit that acquires basic policy information associated with the second drawing information, the basic policy information representing a basic policy for at least one of design and production, and an output unit that, in response to acquisition of information instructing that a design change be made to the first drawing information, outputs a basic policy corresponding to the design change from the basic policy information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shintaro Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 10936564
    Abstract: Disclosed is a diagnostic method and system including the processing of historical event logs generated by one or more devices. According to an exemplary embodiment, a diagnostic system includes an event log acquisition module, an event classification module classifying event logs acquired, and a diagnostic module generating a labeled version of the historical event log including labels provided by the classification module. The event classification module is trained using supervised machine learning techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Helen Haekyung Shin, Matthew John Quirk
  • Publication number: 20210055894
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a processor that performs control, in the case where plural print jobs with different allowable values of a transport speed are consecutively scheduled on one roll of rolled paper, so as to increase and reduce the transport speed of each print job in such a range that the transport speed of the print job does not exceed the allowable value of the transport speed of the print job during execution of print operation corresponding to the print job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke NOGUCHI, Takashi KIKUMOTO, Shingo TAJIMA, Bo LIU, Masatake KAWABE, Megumi YAMAGUCHI, Shogo ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210055685
    Abstract: A cleaning device is provided with: a cleaning component that cleans waste toner from an image holder, the image holder holding, on a surface thereof, a toner image formed by an image forming component and moving in a circulating manner; and a waste toner conveying component that conveys the waste toner toward a waste toner storage unit. The cleaning device has a receiving opening through which waste powder recovered from the image forming component is received, and the waste powder received through the receiving opening is conveyed to the waste toner storage unit by being passed through inside the cleaning device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi SUGITANI, Koichi SATO, Masakazu SHIRAI, Hibiki SASAKI, Kaoru MATSUSHITA, Kiyotoshi KANEYAMA, Toshihiko KAMIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210056368
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to process an image; a reading direct memory access controller (DMAC) configured to read data from the memory; a writing DMAC configured to write data to the memory, each DMAC configured to control direct memory access to a memory; an upper first-in first-out (FIFO) unit connected to the reading and writing DMACs and includes FIFOs of the number equal to the number of channels of each of the reading and writing DMACs and a lower FIFO unit connected between the upper FIFO unit and the processor and includes FIFOs that correspond to the FIFOs of the upper FIFO unit at a ratio of 1 upper FIFO unit to F lower FIFO units (F being an integer equal to 2 or larger).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki NUDEJIMA, Tomoyuki ONO, Takayuki HASHIMOTO, Daiki TAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210055903
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display controller. When a first icon is selected, the display controller controls a display device to display a second icon for displaying a status of a processing corresponding to the first icon, in an area of the first icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeru TANABE
  • Publication number: 20210053784
    Abstract: Alignment apparatuses include a frame and contact elements connected to the frame. The contact elements contact items that are to be transported in a processing direction relative to the frame. The contact elements are in permeant fixed positions relative to the frame, and do not move relative to the frame. Adjustable mounts are connected to the frame and move the frame in the processing direction and in a perpendicular cross-processing direction. A controller is electrically connected to the adjustable mounts, and the controller is adapted to control the adjustable mounts to simultaneously move the frame and all the contact elements in the cross-processing direction and the processing direction while rotating the frame. Methods laterally shift imaging on sheets that have had rotational correction performed by such alignment apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew L. Gesner, Kenneth E. VanDeWater, Husein Naser Kasim Rashed, Jason M. LeFevre, Douglas K. Herrmann, Paul J. McConville, Chu-heng Liu, Seemit Praharaj
  • Publication number: 20210056301
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to detect, in response to detection of plural first character strings each representing a first item from a document having writing fields for items, second character strings related to the plural first character strings, respectively, and set at least one of the detected second character strings in setting information as a second item associated with the first item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takumi KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210055901
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to: accept, from a mobile terminal device carried by a user, identification information that enables identification of the user, positional information of the mobile terminal device, and an image forming instruction; generate sound authentication information for authenticating the accepted image forming instruction and cause an image forming apparatus that is present within a predetermined range of the accepted positional information to output a sound representing the sound authentication information; and cause the image forming apparatus to perform an image forming operation if the sound authentication information and authentication information that is input by using the mobile terminal device satisfy a predetermined relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro KOUGE
  • Publication number: 20210055677
    Abstract: A transport device includes a first transport member that orbits in a predetermined direction and transports a sheet-like medium; a second transport member that forms a first sandwiching region that is curved and a second sandwiching region that is curved in a direction opposite to the first sandwiching region between the first transport member and the second transport member, and sandwiches and transports the medium in the first sandwiching region and the second sandwiching region; and a changing unit that changes a positional relationship between the first transport member and the second transport member so as to increase a width of the other of the first sandwiching region and the second sandwiching region in a transport direction of the medium without increasing a width of one of the first sandwiching region and the second sandwiching region in the transport direction of the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo AKIYAMA, Masataka KONISHI, Shogo KAMIYA, Satoshi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210055679
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a hollow rotating body, a sheet-shaped heater that is disposed inside the rotating body in such a manner as to extend in a width direction perpendicular to a transport direction of a recording medium, which is transported along with rotation of the rotating body, and that heats the rotating body, and multiple thermal-conductive members that are arranged in such a manner as to be in contact with a surface of the sheet-shaped heater, the surface being opposite to a contact surface of the sheet-shaped heater that is in contact with the rotating body, with a gap formed between the multiple thermal-conductive members in at least one of the width direction and the transport direction and that conduct heat of the sheet-shaped heater in the width direction, the multiple thermal-conductive members being arranged such that a first thermal-conductive member and a second thermal-conductive member that are included in the multiple thermal-conductive members and that are adjacent to each other part
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki SATO, Kiyoshi Koyanagi, Toru Inoue, Sou Morizaki
  • Publication number: 20210056254
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform a process. The process includes disassembling each of multiple first data sets in units of pages if a combination in the first data set is improper. The multiple first data sets are obtained by reading and sorting out multiple document sets each containing multiple pages of documents. The process also includes reassembling an adequate combination as a second data set if a page group obtained as a result of the disassembling includes the adequate combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hayato KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20210052846
    Abstract: A presentation control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform first control for presenting a first respiratory cycle longer than a natural respiratory cycle for a respiratory cycle presentation device in a case of preferentially increasing a degree of relaxation, the respiratory cycle presentation device being a device that presents a respiratory cycle, and perform second control for presenting a second respiratory cycle for the respiratory cycle presentation device in a case of preferentially decreasing a degree of physical-mental activity, the second respiratory cycle being a cycle for which a difference between the second respiratory cycle and the natural respiratory cycle is smaller than a difference between the first respiratory cycle and the natural respiratory cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko SUZUKI, Taijyu GAN
  • Patent number: 10931666
    Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for connecting a mobile device with an output device are disclosed. The method may be performed by a processor of a pairing server. For example, the method receives a request to connect the mobile device of an authenticated user to the output device, identifies the mobile device in a database comprising a register of authenticated users and one or more mobile devices of each one of the authenticated users, and transmits a configuration information and a connection information to the mobile device, wherein the configuration information causes the mobile device to modify a configuration of the mobile device and automatically connect to the output device based on the connection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Peter J. Zehler
  • Patent number: 10931834
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first controller and a second controller. The first controller performs processing dependent on hardware having a function. The second controller is connected to the first controller via a communication path and performs processing not dependent on the hardware. The second controller stores an execution command in a storage device. The execution command is for executing processing and has a format not dependent on the hardware. The first controller includes a converter, a memory controller, and an operation controller. The converter acquires the execution command from the storage device and converts the execution command into a command for controlling the hardware and dependent on the hardware. The memory controller writes the converted command into a memory. The operation controller reads the converted command from the memory and controls operation of the hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Imamura, Masahiro Kobata, Shinho Ikeda, Tokuji Ueda, Takanori Fukuoka