Patents Examined by Benjamin O. Dulaney
  • Patent number: 11785149
    Abstract: A server includes memory, a connection establisher, a first transmission request receiver, a first determiner, a first screen data transmitter, a second screen data transmitter, and a first disconnector. The connection establisher establishes continuous connection with a communication device. The first transmission request receiver receives a first transmission request t for displaying a setting screen corresponding to a first type of service. In response to the first transmission request being received from the external device, the first determiner determine whether a second type of service is currently provided. The first screen data transmitter transmits first screen data for displaying a first setting screen to the external device in response to the first determiner determining that the second type of service is not currently provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keisuke Miyachi
  • Patent number: 11778118
    Abstract: The present information on processing apparatus accepts identification information that identifies a predetermined group of a customer organization; acquire from an installation management server, installation data related to the accepted identification information; execute the installation processing of the information processing apparatus in accordance with the acquired installation data; and, in a case where a registration key for the device management server that manages the information processing apparatus within a network is included in the installation data, when the installation processing is ended, requests registration of the information processing apparatus to the device management server using the registration key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junji Sato
  • Patent number: 11758060
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, an information processing apparatus comprises receiving a selection of a channel for a destination of a document image, obtaining information of users belonging to the channel for the destination from an information sharing service, displaying a button for each of the obtained information of users on a screen, and if the button is pressed, displaying a message including a user corresponding to the pressed button as a recipient in an input field of the screen, and transmitting the message inputted on the screen and the document image to the channel of the information sharing service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shota Tsurumaki
  • Patent number: 11736650
    Abstract: A system includes an image processing apparatus and an information processing apparatus that provides a chat service, the image processing apparatus includes a reading unit that reads an image on a document, a memory, and a processor that executes a program stored in the memory to generate a file based on the read image, receive a password from a user, encrypt the generated file, using the received password, and transmit the encrypted file and the received password to the information processing apparatus, wherein the information processing apparatus includes a memory, and a processor that executes a program stored in the memory to cause the information processing apparatus to receive, from the image processing apparatus, the encrypted file and the received password, execute processing for posting the received encrypted file to a channel specified by the user, and execute processing for posting the received password to the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Chie Ito
  • Patent number: 11736636
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a placement section on which a subject is placed, an image capturing unit that is disposed above the placement section and captures an image of the subject, an irradiating unit that is disposed above the placement section and irradiates the subject with light, and a display unit that is disposed between the placement section and the image capturing unit and between the placement section and the irradiating unit, the display unit being located at a position outside an image capturing range of the image capturing unit and an irradiation range of the irradiating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ishikura, Takuya Ishikawa, Kei Otagiri
  • Patent number: 11729643
    Abstract: When a communication error has occurred in a communication with one of external devices connected to a connector portion, a communication control portion of a communication device sets, to a second value, a status value of a first enable signal output to a specific first output portion that corresponds to the external device in which the communication error has occurred, and sets, to a first value, a status value of a first enable signal output to a first output portion other than the specific first output portion. When the communication error has occurred, a hub portion restarts, and then sets all second enable signals to the second value. An application portion that corresponds to the first output portion other than the specific first output portion, maintains to be ON state regardless of occurrence of the communication error since the first enable signal has been set to the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Kitao
  • Patent number: 11722619
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to, in response to a target portable memory being attached to a port, determine whether the target portable memory is set as a dedicated memory for a storage printing process, based on whether identification information is stored in the target portable memory, when determining that the target portable memory is set as the dedicated memory, cause a user interface to display a first screen configured to receive an instruction to specify a storage destination to store print data in the storage printing process, and when determining that the target portable memory is not set as the dedicated memory, cause the user interface to display a second screen differing depending on whether the port to which the target portable memory has been attached is set as a dedicated port for the storage printing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yutaka Urakawa
  • Patent number: 11710017
    Abstract: A medium output control device includes a processor configured to: perform control to output, among plural mediums to be output, a medium without a defect to a first output location; perform control to output, among the plural mediums, a medium with a defect to an output location different from the first output location; and perform control to, after the medium with a defect is output to the output location different from the first output location, keep outputting a medium without a defect among the plural mediums to the first output location until a quantity of mediums output to the first output location reaches a predetermined quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hisao Komazawa
  • Patent number: 11700340
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus operable by an operation device includes a storage that stores a plurality of operations, a detector that detects an operation, and a controller. The controller registers a terminal as the operation device if an operation detected by the detector conforms with an operation stored in the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Okumura, Hiroki Munetomo
  • Patent number: 11700339
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus a display unit includes a reception unit configured to receive a user operation, a setting unit configured to set, as a default language, a language selected by a plurality of operations, a changing unit configured to change, from the default language to a language different from the default language, a language to be displayed by a single operation, and a control unit configured to perform control in such a manner that in a case where the setting unit does not change the default language and the changing unit changes the language to be displayed to the language different from the default language, the language to be displayed is changed to the default language, whereas in a case where the setting unit changes the default language to another language, the language to be displayed is not changed from the other language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuichi Kondo
  • Patent number: 11699055
    Abstract: In some examples, a system detects an error in an printing device, and selects a combination of a medium advance error correction process to address a medium advance error and a faulty nozzle correction process to address a faulty nozzle, where the selecting of the combination is from a plurality of different combinations of the medium advance error correction process and the faulty nozzle correction process, and the selecting is based on a criterion relating to an interaction between the medium advance error and faulty nozzle correction processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Marc Gené Alujas, Joan Albert Jorba Closa, Andrei Alexandru Dafinoiu
  • Patent number: 11698763
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: when performing control of outputting a file from a storage unit in accordance with a request from a using user, issue second identification information to the using user, the file having been stored by a registering user in the storage unit, the file being associated with first identification information for identifying the file, the second identification information to be used for recording information related to use of the file; and upon receipt of the second identification information from the using user, perform control of recording the information related to the use of the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Daiki Mariyama
  • Patent number: 11695880
    Abstract: An information processing method including: acquiring a superimposed image in which electronic information corresponding to an image of an object captured by an image capturing unit of an information processing apparatus is superimposed on the image; storing the superimposed image in a storage; and displaying the superimposed image stored in the storage on a display of the information processing apparatus, and even in a case where the object is not included in an image capturing range of the image capturing unit, the superimposed image stored in the storage is displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuka Katahira
  • Patent number: 11683436
    Abstract: A system that appropriately synthesizes output data and a code provided by an external settlement service is provided. The system comprising a transmitting unit configured to transmit information for generating a code used for paying a amount of money to an external settlement service, a receiving unit configured to receive the code generated based on the information transmitted by the transmitting unit, and a synthesizing unit configured to synthesize the code received by the receiving unit and output data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tateki Narita
  • Patent number: 11677886
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit, an information acquiring unit, a setting unit, and a controller. The communication unit communicatively connects with a terminal device having a sensor. The information acquiring unit acquires information detected by the sensor from the terminal device communicatively connected via the communication unit. The setting unit sets a preferential terminal device to be preferentially connected with the communication unit. The controller performs control to connect with the preferential terminal device preferentially over a terminal device that is not a preferential terminal device within a capacity range of the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Keisuke Komatsubara
  • Patent number: 11677885
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a printing section, an electrostatic touch panel, a power source circuit section, and a contact member. The printing section performs printing. The electrostatic touch panel receives a touch operation by a user. The power source circuit section receives supply of power from a commercial power source and supplies power to the printing section and the electrostatic touch panel. The contact member is connected to a ground of an image forming apparatus and is touched by a user operating the electrostatic touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Tamura
  • Patent number: 11659126
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display device and a processor. The processor is configured to generate a first screen for display on the display device and on which one of a plurality of malfunctioning part candidates of the image processing apparatus and one of a plurality of timings at which a particular sound was output by the image processing apparatus that malfunctioned, are selectable, when a first malfunctioning part candidate and a first timing are selected on the first screen, generate a second screen for display on the display device and on which one or more reference sounds corresponding to the particular sound are selectable, and when one of the reference sounds is selected on the second screen, generate error information indicating the first malfunctioning part candidate and the selected reference sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sou Miyazaki, Hiroyo Tanaka, Kazuhiro Ogura, Masaki Narahashi, Satoshi Oyama, Tatsuya Inagi
  • Patent number: 11652948
    Abstract: A communication job record display device that is capable of improving display of a destination in a record of transmission and reception. A display unit displays information about a communication job concerning transmission and reception with an external device. An obtaining unit obtains record information about the communication job including destination information. A display controller controls display by the display unit. The display controller changes a destination display method based on a size of a record display screen displayed on the display unit and the destination information about the record information obtained so that the destination information will be displayed on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Sugawara
  • Patent number: 11632485
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes an imaging device, a first communication device capable of communicating at a first communication speed according to a first communication protocol, a second communication device capable of communicating at a second communication speed lower than the first communication speed according to a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol, a first processor to separately transmit a first image acquired by imaging a first surface of a medium by the imaging device, and a second image acquired by imaging a second surface of the medium by the imaging device, via the first communication device, and a second processor to transmit a combined image acquired by combining the first image and the second image via the second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: Katsunori Aoyama
  • Patent number: 11630613
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a head part, an encoder, a tension sensor, a head part temperature sensor, an edge sensor, an estimation part, a storage, and an output part. The estimation part estimates print quality in terms of a page printed by the head part on the basis of variation elements detected by the encoder, the tension sensor, the head part temperature sensor, and the edge sensor. The storage stores print quality information containing the printed page and the print quality estimated by the estimation part in association with each other. The output part outputs the print quality information to a display, a post-processing device, and a printer controller section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Nomura, Atsushi Imamura, Tomotaka Kato