Patents Examined by Cheukfan Lee
  • Patent number: 12377666
    Abstract: Re-layout processing of the one or more objects is executed when an instruction for a re-layout for borderless printing of one or more objects included in a page that can be printed by a printing apparatus is received. The re-layout processing includes at least processing to scale down a predetermined object that does not satisfy a predetermined condition relative to a background object so that, for objects other than the background object from among the one or more objects, an object that satisfies the predetermined condition is allowed to extend into, from among a printable region and an extend region in the page in a case of borderless printing, the extend region and an object that does not satisfy the predetermined condition is not allowed to extend into the extend region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ruriko Yamada
  • Patent number: 12373150
    Abstract: Secure printing may be performed in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) in a virtualized computing environment. When a file is selected for secure printing, print data for the file is stored, and a corresponding entry is created in a metadata map. A message is sent to a user device to inform a user that the file is available for secure printing. The message may include a uniform resource locator (URL) link having a hash code corresponding to the stored print data. If the user accesses the URL link to request the secure printing, the hash code is retrieved from the URL link and compared against the entry in the metadata map. If there is a match between the hash code and the entry in the metadata map, the file is sent to a target local printer for printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Omnissa, LLC
    Inventors: Hui Yuan, Kun Shi, Zhiyu Li, Hui Zhang
  • Patent number: 12367362
    Abstract: A method for forming an image by a print device includes: identifying a first pixel in halftone image data, the halftone image data representing an image to be formed, the first pixel corresponding to a malfunctioning inkjet of a plurality of inkjets. The method further includes identifying a neighboring pixel within a region of the image around the first pixel, the neighboring pixel corresponding to a functioning inkjet. The method further includes generating a modified halftone value for the neighboring pixel by: identifying a missing color associated with the malfunctioning inkjet, identifying a replacement color to compensate the missing color (the replacement color being a different color than the missing color), and modifying a halftone value for the neighboring pixel based on the replacement color. The method further includes causing the functioning inkjet to eject an ink drop based on the modified halftone value for the neighboring pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Sige Hu, Stuart A. Schweid
  • Patent number: 12365193
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit including a first printing portion to print an image by a fluorescent coloring material, and a second printing portion to print an image by a second coloring material that is not colored, and a controller to control printing of an image onto a print medium performed by the first printing portion, and printing of an image onto the print medium performed by the second printing portion. The controller controls an order of the printing by the first printing portion and the printing by the second printing portion, in accordance with an attribute of a region of an image as a printing target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Yamaguchi, Hideki Kubo, Kouta Murasawa, Okinori Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 12355927
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire plural scanned images obtained by scanning a bundle of paper media including a plural standard document bundles each of which is a set of a standard document and a related document related to the standard document, extract a title from the plural scanned images, extract, from the plural scanned images, an identifier that is assigned to be common within one standard document bundle and to be different between different standard document bundles, and divide the plural scanned images into bundles such that a scanned image from which the title is extracted is set as a bundle head, scanned images having the same identifier are included in the same bundle, and scanned images having different identifiers are included in different bundles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Fumi Kosaka, Shigeru Okada, Shusaku Kubo, Yusuke Suzuki, Masayuki Yamaguchi, Jun Ando
  • Patent number: 12348688
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus (10) includes storage (18), reception section (11), display section (11), image forming section (14), and display controller (16A). Storage (18) stores files for each of, pieces of personal information. Each of the files is associated with one piece of personal information among the pieces of personal information. Reception section (11) receives a piece of personal information among the pieces of personal information. Display section (11) displays first list. First list includes file names respectively indicating the files. Each of the files is associated with corresponding personal information which reception section (11) has received. Image forming section (14) forms image based on first list. Display controller (16A) controls display section (11) so that it adds visually-identifiable information to file name, in which the image has not yet been formed with image forming section (14), among the file names in the first list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Akifumi Seto
  • Patent number: 12326556
    Abstract: Lens arrays of an image reading device in which lens bodies are arranged in a main scanning direction are connected with a gap therebetween. A plurality of first slit portions and a plurality of second slit portions are provided along the main scanning direction between the lens arrays and an image sensor. The first slit portion includes first light shielding plates that separate optical paths of light passed through the lens bodies. The second slit portion includes the first light shielding plates and a second light shielding plate that restricts an optical path of light passed through a lens body closest to the gap at a gap side. The position of the second light shielding plate in a direction along the optical path at the image sensor side is closer to the lens arrays than the first light shielding plates are.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Sawabe, Kazuki Nishimura, Koki Takasaki
  • Patent number: 12280975
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a feeding tray capable of being inserted into and pulled out from the housing, a feed roller, and one or more detection units. The feeding tray includes a first accommodation part in which a roll body having a configuration where a sheet-shaped medium is rolled in a roll shape is accommodated and a second accommodation part in which a plurality of sheet-shaped media are accommodated in a state of being stacked. The feed roller feeds a sheet-shaped medium from the feeding tray toward a conveying path. The image forming unit forms an image on a sheet-shaped medium provided in the conveying path. The one or more detection units detect whether a sheet-shaped medium is arranged in a predetermined position in the feeding tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masatomo Yamaguchi, Yuya Tatematsu, Hironori Takasaki
  • Patent number: 12267470
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: set a rule for specifying a region in which a value of an item of an attribute assigned to a form shown by an image is shown in the image for each item, from a predetermined first rule, a second rule indicating an arrangement of the region for an element included in the form, which is input by a user, and a third rule indicating coordinates of the region in the image, which are input by the user; and extract the value of the item shown in the region specified by using the set rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Takahiro Uchida
  • Patent number: 12244776
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a tray, a paper feed roller that conveys a sheet, a first sensor that detects a front end and a rear end of the sheet, a second sensor that detects the front end of the sheet, and a scanner that reads an image on a front side of the sheet and reads an image on a back side of the sheet. A controller determines a first time duration that elapses from the detection of the front end of the sheet by the first sensor to the detection of the rear end of the sheet by the first sensor and operates the scanner to read the image on the back side of the sheet over a second time duration equal in length to the first time duration. The second time duration begins after the front end of the sheet is detected by the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Onuma
  • Patent number: 12242764
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first processor mounted on a first information processing apparatus installed in a shared space and shared by plural users who do not belong to the same organization, a second processor mounted on a connection server installed outside the shared space and connected to a local area network of an organization to which each of plural users belong, and the connection server having a virtual private line connection function, and a third processor mounted on a management server which is installed outside the shared space and the local area network of each organization, and manages connection server connection information necessary for establishing a virtual private line with the connection server of each organization, in which the third processor is configured to, in response to a connection information acquisition request in which identification information on an organization transmitted from the first information processing apparatus is designated, return the connection
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Akihide Oshima
  • Patent number: 12244781
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first processor mounted on a server connected to a local area network of an organization to which a user belongs, and a second processor mounted on an information processing apparatus provided outside the local area network, in which the first processor is configured to in a case of relaying process request information addressed to the information processing apparatus, the process request information including data which is a target of a process, and process information including identification information on the process, information specifying a request source of the process, and identification information on the information processing apparatus which is a request destination of the process, associate the identification information on the process with the identification information on the information processing apparatus included in the process request information to generate processing management information, and register the generated processing management inform
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Takashi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12227014
    Abstract: An automatic desktop personalization device, for security booklet documents, includes a camera, an inkjet printing module, a laser marking module, a chip encoding module, and a transport mechanism. The inkjet printing module includes a printing head and is configured to print within a printing zone. The laser marking module is configured to mark within a marking zone. The transport mechanism is configured to automatically transport a security booklet document along a Y-axis linear direction, from an entrance to an exit, through printing positions and a marking position. The entrance and the exit are the same. The printing head is movable alongside an X-axis linear direction that is perpendicular to the Y-axis linear direction. The inkjet printing module includes the transport mechanism. The laser marking head is adjacent an inkjet printing bridge, such that the marking zone and the printing zone are at least partly combined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SURYS GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Puehler, Markus Schaefer
  • Patent number: 12189433
    Abstract: A self-contained printing system includes a weatherproof housing defining an interior for containing the self-contained printing system components. A printer located within the weatherproof housing prints documents responsive to a print command. The printer is powered by a battery located within the weatherproof housing. A charging system charges the battery located within the weatherproof housing responsive a charging signal. At least one solar panel located on an exterior of the weatherproof housing provides the charging signal. Wireless communications circuitry enables the receipt of the print commands from an external device located outside of the weatherproof housing via a wireless communications link and communications with at least one remote server via the wireless communications link. A system processor monitors wireless communications link and generates status messages responsive thereto. At least one display located on the exterior of the weatherproof housing displays the status messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Copart, Inc.
    Inventors: William An, Casey Sudduth, Dustin Parkinson, Merrylle Martinez, Victor Tang
  • Patent number: 12177405
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires service information; a storage unit that stores the service information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a control unit that controls, based on the service information stored in the storage unit, accounting processing performed along with execution of a function of the image forming apparatus. The control unit executes first accounting processing based on a fact that first service information is stored in the storage unit, and executes second accounting processing different from the first accounting processing based on a fact that second service information different from the first service information is stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takanobu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12177402
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a circuit board on which a plurality of light sources are disposed in a longitudinal direction, a light guide portion including a first holding portion configured to hold the circuit board, and a second holding portion configured to hold the circuit board, a support member configured to support the light guide portion, and an image reading unit configured to read image information by performing photoelectric conversion on reflected light reflected by a sheet which has received light emitted from the light guide portion. The support member includes a projecting portion disposed between the first holding portion and the second holding portion in the longitudinal direction, the projecting portion facing and projecting toward the circuit board held by the first holding portion and the second holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takatsugu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12166934
    Abstract: An image forming system including: a conveyance unit configured to convey a first sheet on which an image has been formed by an image forming portion; a reading unit including a reading sensor configured to read the first sheet being conveyed by the conveyance unit through a transparent member at a reading position; a guide member configured to cover a reference member on a side opposite to the reading sensor with respect to the transparent member; and a controller configured to perform shading correction on a result of reading the first sheet based on image data obtained by the reading unit reading the reference member through the transparent member, and to control, based on an image subjected to the shading correction, a geometric characteristic of an image to be formed on a second sheet by the image forming portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohito Nakagawa, Teppei Nagata, Yukihiro Soeta, Shogo Terakawa
  • Patent number: 12166933
    Abstract: A medium-discharging device includes: a device main body including a medium-discharging section that discharges a medium; a medium-receiving tray that receives the medium discharged by the medium-discharging section; and a pressing member that is configured to be attached to and detached from to the device main body and presses the medium discharged by the medium-discharging section against the medium-receiving tray in a state in which the pressing member is attached to the device main body, in which the pressing member is configured to switch, in the state in which the pressing member is attached to the device main body, between a first state in which the pressing member comes into contact with the medium-receiving tray and a second state in which the pressing member retreats upward so as to be apart from the medium-receiving tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yoichiro Nishimura
  • Patent number: 12155801
    Abstract: In a case where a skew of a document being conveyed is detected by a detection unit, an image reading apparatus notifies that documents having different sheet widths may be included in documents stacked on a stacking unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiro Tachibana
  • Patent number: 12149659
    Abstract: A print image generation unit performs a first rasterization process for printing and thereby generates print image data. A print unit performs printing based on the print image data and thereby produces a print product. An image scanning unit performs image scanning of the print product and thereby generates scan image data. Further, the print image generation unit performs a second rasterization process for inspection and generates reference image data of plural reference images that have plural slant angles in a predetermined range, respectively; and an inspection processing unit determines a skew angle of the scan image data, selects a reference image corresponding to the slant angle among the plural reference images, and compares the reference image data of the selected reference image and the scan image data and thereby performs inspection of the print product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Hara