Patents Examined by Akwasi M Sarpong
  • Patent number: 12211185
    Abstract: A computer-implemented image-processing method is provided. The computer-implemented image-processing method includes obtaining a pair of training samples including a training image having a first degree of sharpness and a reference image having a second degree of sharpness, the second degree greater than the first degree, at least portions of the training image and the reference image in a same pair having same contents; inputting the training image to the image-enhancing convolutional neural network to generate a training enhanced image; inputting the training enhanced image into an edge detector; generating, by the edge detector, a plurality of first edge maps; inputting the reference image into the edge detector; generating, by the edge detector, a plurality of second edge maps; and tuning parameters in the image-enhancing convolutional neural network to minimize at least the one or more first losses and a second loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dan Zhu, Guannan Chen, Ran Duan
  • Patent number: 12210782
    Abstract: In a case where a second image processing device is designated as an image processing device used in printing according to a printing job, a printing control unit transmits a printing request to a second printing service system only when the printing job is a printing job corresponding to a printing instruction of a second user, and in a case where a first image processing device is designated as an image processing device used in printing according to the printing job, the printing control unit transmits a printing request to the second printing service system regardless of the printing job is a printing job corresponding to a printing instruction of which user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Furuta
  • Patent number: 12204266
    Abstract: A medium conveying apparatus includes a plurality of feed rollers spaced in a direction perpendicular to a medium conveying direction, each of the feed rollers rotating independently at a respective speed to feed a medium, a plurality of brake rollers, each of the plurality of brake rollers being located to face a corresponding one of the plurality of feed rollers, a plurality of torque limiters separately provided between one of rotation shafts of the plurality of brake rollers and a corresponding one of the plurality of brake rollers, and a processor to detect a skew of the medium, and correct the skew of the medium by changing the speed of one of the plurality of feed rollers when the skew of the medium is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takayuki Umi, Shigeharu Okano
  • Patent number: 12198295
    Abstract: A technique for performing convolution operations is disclosed. The technique includes performing a first convolution operation based on a first convolutional layer input image to generate at least a portion of a first convolutional layer output image; while performing the first convolution operation, performing a second convolution operation based on a second convolutional layer input image to generate at least a portion of a second convolutional layer output image, wherein the second convolutional layer input image is based on the first convolutional layer output image; storing the portion of the first convolutional layer output image in a first memory dedicated to storing image data for convolution operations; and storing the portion of the second convolutional layer output image in a second memory dedicated to storing image data for convolution operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Y. Chow, Vidyashankar Viswanathan, Richard E. George
  • Patent number: 12190620
    Abstract: Improved techniques to access content from documents in an automated fashion. The improved techniques permit content within documents to be retrieved and then used by computer systems operating various software programs (e.g., application programs), such as an extraction program. Documents, especially business transaction documents, often have various descriptors (or tables) and values that form key-value pairs. The improved techniques permit key-value pairs within documents to be recognized and extracted from documents. Consequently, RPA systems are able to accurately understand the content of tables within documents so that users and/or software robots can operate on the documents with increased reliability and flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Automation Anywhere, Inc.
    Inventors: Siddarth Sathi, Vibhas Gejji, Anish Hiranandani, Bruno Gomes Selva, Anjana Prabhakar
  • Patent number: 12192433
    Abstract: Based on scanned data obtained by a scan unit reading a first chart printed and output by a printing unit and colorimetric data obtained by a colorimetry unit measuring the first chart, correction information for correcting a sensed value of the scan unit is generated. The first chart includes a patch extending in a main scanning direction substantially perpendicular to a sheet conveyance direction and having a uniform density, and a position adjustment pattern formed outside the patch for identifying a position in the main scanning direction on the patch. A first generation unit generates the correction information by causing a pixel position of an end portion of the patch in the scanned data and a colorimetry position of an end portion of the patch in the colorimetric data to correspond to each other and determining a corrected value of the sensed value at a specific pixel position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoya Takesue
  • Patent number: 12178577
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses methods and apparatus for fatigue prediction based on analogue brain wave data, wherein one of the methods comprises: collecting an eye video sequence based on a video capture device; inputting the eye video sequence into a default fatigue discriminator to obtain predicted analogue brain wave data; and outputting the analogue brain wave data to a fatigue discriminant to discriminate a fatigue state. By adopting such a method for fatigue prediction based on analogue brain wave data described in the present disclosure, corresponding analogue brain wave data can be generated through acquiring eye image data, and the fatigue state can be predicted according to the analogue brain waves, so as to avoid tedious operation steps and improve the robustness and accuracy of the fatigue state detection, thereby greatly improving the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: MINJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Tianjian Liu
  • Patent number: 12177400
    Abstract: An image forming device operates in a first operation when executing a first program and operates in a second operation when executing a second program. A controller of the image forming device transmits first USB configuration information to a terminal device when operated in a first operation and transmit second USB configuration information to the terminal device when operated in a second operation. The image forming device does not communicate with the terminal device when operated in the second operation in a case where the second USB configuration information is not transmitted to the terminal device, and communicates with the terminal device by transmitting the second USB configuration information in a case where operating in the second operation and communicating with the terminal device which receives the first USB configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Jun Okajima
  • Patent number: 12175138
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus communicatively connected to a user terminal and an image forming apparatus, the information processing apparatus includes one or more controllers having one or more processors and one or more memories, the one or more controllers being configured: to receive a message of a text described in a natural language from the user terminal, to determine information about a device setting of the image forming apparatus from a word included in the message, and to transmit the information about the determined device setting to the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takaaki Miyata
  • Patent number: 12165425
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying a presence of a completed document are disclosed. The system may receive an image file from a client device associated with a first document, identify one or more image regions within the image file corresponding to a presence of one or more extractable data entries, selectively extract the one or more extractable data entries, and determine whether the one or more extractable data entries match one or more stored data entries. When the one or more extractable data entries match, the system may determine the status of the first document as completed. When the one or more extractable data entries do not match, the system may proactively replace one or more inconsistent extractable data entries with corresponding stored data entries to form a corrected first document, and generate a request for a client to verify the corrected first document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Fnu Manjushri Srikanta Swamy, Gowtham Guduru, Joshua Havens, Aaron Attar, Rahul Nowlakha
  • Patent number: 12154356
    Abstract: A document to be analyzed and a set of key names to be extracted from the document are received. A set of strings of characters contained within the document and a location for each string of character are identified. Moreover, a document graph for the document is generated. The document graph includes a set of nodes and a set of edges. Each node of the set of nodes corresponds to a string of characters of the set of strings of characters. Each edge of the set of edges connects two or more nodes together. Additionally, based on the document graph and the received set of key names, a set of keys are identified. Furthermore, a set of values are extracted from the document, and a set of key-value pairs are generated based on the identified set of keys and the extracted set of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Alteryx, Inc.
    Inventors: Jad Dino Raad, Adam Blacke
  • Patent number: 12153839
    Abstract: A first cloud server, that provides a first cloud cooperation service, executes instructions to: receive, from an image forming apparatus, a first acquisition request to acquire a print job; acquire information on a first print job managed by the first cloud cooperation service; acquire, from a second cloud server, information on a second print job managed by a second cloud cooperation service and information on a third print job managed by a first print service cooperating with the second cloud cooperation service; and transmit a print job list including the information on the first print job, the information on the second print job, and the information on the third print job to the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Fuse
  • Patent number: 12148129
    Abstract: Disclosed are an image dehazing method and system based on CycleGAN. The method comprises: acquiring a to-be-processed hazy image; and inputting the image into a pre-trained densely connected CycleGAN, and outputting a clear image. The densely connected CycleGAN comprises a generator, the generator comprises an encoder, a converter and a decoder, the encoder comprises a densely connected layer for extracting features of an input image, the converter comprises a transition layer for combining the features extracted at the encoder stage, the decoder comprises a densely connected layer and a scaled convolutional neural network layer, the densely connected layer is used for restoring original features of the image, and the scaled convolutional neural network layer is used for removing a checkerboard effect of the restored original features to obtain a finally output clear image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: Dengyin Zhang, Chenghui Qi, Yan Yang, Yepeng Xu, Wensheng Han, Yonglian Ma, Jinshuai Wang
  • Patent number: 12149667
    Abstract: A printing system includes a print engine, and one or more controllers configured to perform a data obtaining process of obtaining print data, a print controlling process of controlling the print engine to print an image corresponding to the print data on a printing medium based on a print setting value, and a fee determining process of determining a fee corresponding to a plurality of the print setting values to be applied when the print engine prints the image on the printing medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Haruka Azechi, Shunsuke Minamikawa, Tetsuya Okuno, Ayaka Hotta, Yushi Deura
  • Patent number: 12148194
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a device, and a storage medium for targeted adversarial discriminative domain adaptation (T-ADDA). The method includes pre-training a source model including a source feature encoder and a source classifier, adapting a target feature encoder, and generating a target model by concatenating the adapted target feature encoder with the pre-trained source classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hua-mei Chen, Ashley Diehl, Erik Blasch, Genshe Chen
  • Patent number: 12141951
    Abstract: A method of contrast enhancement of a three-dimensional light sheet microscopy image formed from N individual images each corresponding to a light sheet plane and spaced apart from each other in the z-direction by at least a distance d, the x/y-plane being the light sheet plane and the x-direction being the propagation direction of the light sheet of the light sheet plane, comprising: Deconvolution of the three-dimensional image in the z-direction, comprising: For each intensity vector of N intensities (Ix,y,1, . . . , Ix,y,N) having the same x/y value, performing a multiplication with a tridiagonal N×N deconvolution matrix, which assigns to each voxel (x, y, n) a correction parameter f1, with which, by the multiplication of the deconvolution matrix with the intensity vector, for a component I(x, y, n) of the intensity vector the intensities Ix, y, n+1 and Ix, y, n?1 of the corresponding voxels of the neighboring image plane are multiplied, before they are subtracted from the intensity value I(x, y, n).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts Universitätsmedizin
    Inventors: Freddy Silvester Wouters-Bunt, Stephan Hock
  • Patent number: 12136286
    Abstract: Keypoint extraction is done for extracting keypoints from images of documents. Based on different keypoint extraction approaches used by existing keypoint extraction mechanisms, number of keypoints extracted and related parameters vary. Disclosed herein is a method and system for keypoint extraction from images of one or more documents. In this method, a reference image and a test image of a document are collected as input. During the keypoint extraction, based on types of characters present in words extracted from the document images, a plurality of words are extracted. Further, all connected components in each of the extracted words are identified. Further, it is decided whether keypoints are to be searched in a first component or in a last component of all the identified connected components, and accordingly searches and extracts at least four of the keypoints from the test image and the corresponding four keypoints from the reference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Kushagra Mahajan, Monika Sharma, Lovekesh Vig
  • Patent number: 12137187
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface, a display, and a controller configured to, when the image forming apparatus is remotely connected with an information processing device via the communication interface, transmit, to the information processing device, screen data for causing the information processing device to display a screen corresponding to a display screen being displayed on the display, when receiving remote access from the information processing device, perform display processing for the display screen in accordance with the remote access, and when the remote access is received while a particular screen is being displayed as the display screen on the display, impose a display restriction on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yutaka Urakawa, Tomoya Kaneko
  • Patent number: 12132874
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus stores one or more pieces of transmission-source information as transmission-source information for the requests; transmits, to the server, a request in which one of the one or more pieces of transmission-source information stored is set; receives a response to the request from the server; and in a case where a response indicating improperness of the request is received from the server in response to the request, transmits, to the server, the request in which, from among the one or more pieces of transmission-source information, the transmission-source information that was not used in the transmitted request is selected and set as the transmission-source information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaaki Sato
  • Patent number: 12132872
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an image forming apparatus and a mobile terminal capable of performing wired or wireless communication with the image forming apparatus. A voice recognition application is installed in the mobile terminal. The image forming apparatus includes a pedestal to which the mobile terminal is attached, a motion sensor that starts operating when the mobile terminal is attached to the pedestal to detect whether a person is coming close, and a CPU that instructs, when it is determined based on a result of the detection that a user has come close to use the image forming apparatus, the mobile terminal to start the voice recognition application or operate the same in the foreground. The mobile terminal includes a voice output section configured to notify a user that the mobile terminal is capable of responding to voice input, when the instruction is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yo Kobayashi