Patents Examined by Darryl V Dottin
  • Patent number: 12045523
    Abstract: At least one of the first notification and the second notification is provided via a display device, based on a fact that, by the editing of an object, an object with a transmission property is overlapped on the front surface of an object to be printed by use of a spot color ink, the first notification being provided for warning that the object with the transmission property is in a state of being overlapped on the front surface of the object to be printed by use of the spot color ink, the second notification being provided for asking whether or not a predetermined overlapping state in which the object with the transmission property is overlapped on the front surface of the object to be printed by use of the spot color ink is to be maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keisuke Nagamine
  • Patent number: 12039210
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image former configured to form an image on a sheet, an inspector configured to inspect the sheet on which the image has been formed by the image former and determine whether or not the image of the sheet has an abnormality, and a controller configured to, in a case where the inspector determines that the image of the sheet has the abnormality of positional deviation, perform an adjustment operation in which an image formation position by the image former is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyoharu Kakomura, Noriaki Matsui, Takashi Yokoya, Takuya Machida, Shun Motohashi, Toshifumi Oikawa, Tadao Sugiura
  • Patent number: 12032864
    Abstract: A printer may include: a process executing unit configured to execute a predetermined process related to cutting of a sheet paper; and a controller. The controller may be configured to: after a print executing command has been received, cause a display unit to display an inquiry screen, the inquiry screen being for inquiring a user whether the predetermined process is to be executed on the sheet paper; and in a case where it is selected by a user that the predetermined process is to be executed on the sheet paper, cause the process executing unit to execute the predetermined process on the sheet paper, wherein in a case where it is selected by the user that the predetermined process is not to be executed on the sheet paper, the predetermined process is not executed on the sheet paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12026416
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a management program used in a management system managing terminal devices, the management system including a management device managing the terminal devices, information processing devices performing data communication with the terminal devices, and a storage device performing data communication with the management device and the information processing devices, the management program, when executed by a computer of the information processing device, causes the information processing device to perform: registering, in the storage device, device registration information including: device identification information identifying a connected terminal device that is the terminal device communicably connected to the information processing device; device setting information related to device setting of the connected terminal device; and application date information indicating an application date when the device setting is applied to the connected terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shintaro Kunimoto
  • Patent number: 12026406
    Abstract: A pull-print server may include a receiver to receive a print job from a client device. The print job includes a first page and a second page. Further, the pull-print server may include a transmitter to transmit the print job to a printer via a network in response to a reception of a first pull-print request from the printer. The pull-print server may include a controller to receive page count information from the printer upon completion of printing of the first page. The page count information indicates a number of pages printed corresponding to the print job. Further, the controller may detect an interruption of the print job prior to completion of the print job and cause the interrupted print job to resume on the printer based on the page count information and in response to a reception of a second pull-print request from the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Rahul Sharma, Puranjaya Pradhan, Abhishek Avasthi
  • Patent number: 12022037
    Abstract: A method for an information processing apparatus, the method including firstly acquiring information regarding a communication apparatus configured to communicate with the information processing apparatus, secondly acquiring notification information created by a management server configured to communicate with the information processing apparatus, executing a first determination process for determining whether the acquired information regarding the communication apparatus satisfies an output condition corresponding to information included in the acquired notification information, and in response to determining in the first determination process that the information regarding the communication apparatus satisfies the output condition, outputting a notification based on the notification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinya Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 12019930
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus classifies, among a plurality of pieces of image data, one or more pluralities of pieces of image data into one or more groups, each including a plurality of pieces of similar image data, the one or more pluralities of pieces of image data each satisfying a corresponding predetermined classification condition for grouping similar images, classifies one or more pieces of image data not satisfying the classification condition as one or more pieces of normal image data, generates one or more pieces of similar image display information corresponding to the one or more groups obtained by classification, generates one or more normal thumbnail images corresponding to the one or more pieces of normal image data obtained by classification, and displays the one or more pieces of similar image display information and the one or more normal thumbnail images that are generated in a manner that allows selection operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Saeda, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano
  • Patent number: 12008420
    Abstract: A printed-material check apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire check information including section information and first comparison information from a printed material printed on a basis of print data with check information, the section information identifying a section in print data, the first comparison information being generated from data identified by the section, the print data with check information being generated by adding the check information to the print data; acquire an image of an inner part of a section on the printed material, the section being identified by the acquired check information; and determine whether the printed material is valid by using the first comparison information and the image of the inner part of the section on the printed material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Satoshi Misawa
  • Patent number: 12008274
    Abstract: In printing of a print job to be inspected using a pre-printed sheet having information printed thereon in advance, control is performed so as not to register a reference image based on image data that is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Mutsuno
  • Patent number: 12001510
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for length-aware local tiling in a sparse attention module in a transformer in heterogeneous devices are provided. The method includes that a heterogeneous device including one or more GPUs: divides a transformed sparsity mask into a plurality of first tiles and obtaining one or more effective first tiles from the plurality of first tiles, where each effective first tile includes at least one non-zero element; loads the one or more effective first tiles into a shared memory in the one or more GPUs and loads a plurality of elements in a first matrix corresponding to the one or more effective first tiles into the shared memory; and performs multiplication by a first sampled dense-dense matrix multiplication (SDDMM) kernel in the sparse attention module in the transformer by fetching the one or more effective first tiles and the plurality of elements from the shared memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING TRANSTREAMS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Zhendong Wang, Yongxiong Ren, Yang Liu, Lingzhi Liu
  • Patent number: 12001731
    Abstract: A printing device includes a control section that is configured to receive designation of a first print mode or a second print mode for one or more print jobs and cause the printing section to execute printing in accordance with print setting, wherein a consumption amount of a medium in the printing of one print job in the second print mode is larger than a consumption amount of the medium in the printing of one print job in the first print mode and the control section acquires, from among the print setting information, specific setting information that causes a difference in the consumption amount of the medium between printing in the first print mode and printing in the second print mode from different acquisition sources for the print job for which the first print mode is designated and the print job for which the second print mode is designated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yoichi Mitsui
  • Patent number: 11989473
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an image data acquisition unit that acquires image data; a print condition acquisition unit that acquires a print condition including a type of a print medium on which an image is printed; a parameter acquisition unit that acquires a texture parameter indicating a texture of the print medium; a color conversion unit that performs color conversion corresponding to the print condition, on the image data; and a rendering unit that executes rendering, causing the image data on which the color conversion is performed, to correspond to at least one of a front face and a back face of a 3D object representing a shape of the print medium, and causing the texture parameter to correspond to the front face and the back face of the 3D object, and thus generates a rendered image representing the print medium with the image printed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Yamashita, Takahiro Kamada, Takuya Ono, Yuko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11989471
    Abstract: Anon-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores computer-readable instructions that are executable by a computer of an information processing device and conform to a printer connected with the information processing device. The instructions cause, when executed by the computer, the information processing device to obtain automatic processing information stored in the printer, the automatic processing information indicating whether particular processing on image data of a print job is to be performed automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazutaka Yamada
  • Patent number: 11985284
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a separating roller that is capable of switching between a separation state in which an original document is separated and a non-separation state in which the original document is not separated, and determines whether or not the original document is fed in the separation state or the non-separation state based on the types of the original document set through a user interface for instructing a select of the types of the original document to be read and a start of reading the original document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Mokuo, Noriyuki Koyanagi, Keiichiro Fukumasu, Keisuke Miyauchi, Naoki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11977790
    Abstract: In an information processing device, a processor is configured to perform: acquiring; displaying; receiving; and identifying. The acquiring acquires from a memory a single set of template data for a composite label. The single set of template data includes a plurality of sets of image data corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of print labels and representing respective ones of a plurality of label images. The single composite label is to be created using the plurality of print labels. The displaying displays on a display a composite label image in which the plurality of label images is superimposed on each other. The receiving receives a designating operation on the composite label image via an operating interface. The designating operation targeting a target label image. The identifying identifies target image data corresponding to the target label image from among the plurality of sets of image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Fukui, Ryuichi Kanda, Koichi Kondo, Hiromichi Nampo
  • Patent number: 11977801
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus stores held print jobs on a storage apparatus, displays a list of the held print jobs that have been stored on the storage apparatus, and performs a display according to a state of the storage apparatus when displaying the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroaki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11966640
    Abstract: A method for controlling a printer includes receiving a set of first variables for the printer, determining, using a machine-learning program, one or more second variables based on the set of first variables, and controlling a printer to perform a print job based on the set of first variables and the one or more second variables. The first and second variables may correspond to different types of printer settings. The machine-learning program may determine the second variables using a classifier model that may prevent partial curing or drying, print media deformation and/or other defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Cara Ellen Birschbach, Volker Seidel, Albert Franco Morera
  • Patent number: 11966643
    Abstract: A controller is configured to: perform a registration process for again storing connection information in an intermediary server; after the registration process, perform a transition process of changing a state of a device from a first state to a second state, the first state being a state where setting information is stored in a memory and a service is usable by the device, the second state being a state where intermediary server information is stored in the memory and the connection information and the setting information are not stored in the memory; after the transition process, receive, from the intermediary server, the connection information that is stored again; connect to a target server by using the received connection information and again receive the setting information from the target server; and store, in the memory, the setting information that is received again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Seiya Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11966645
    Abstract: A document creation method includes: specifying a missing unit in document information divided into units; and specifying a unit serving as a reference for inserting the missing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LEGALON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Kawato, Ruka Funaki
  • Patent number: 11962726
    Abstract: A printing system includes an administrator terminal, a user terminal, and a processor that provides a printing service related to a printer configured to be used by the user terminal, in which the processor transmits, based on an expiration date of a contract for the printing service, request information for requesting response information to the administrator terminal and transmits notification information to the user terminal when continuation processing for the contract is not executed based on the response information from the administrator terminal, the user terminal transmits, based on the notification information, inquiry information for inquiring about continuation of the contract to the administrator terminal, the administrator terminal transmits, based on the inquiry information, continuation information for continuing the contract to the processor, and the processor executes, based on the continuation information, the continuation processing and grants permission to use the printing service to the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiki Kobayashi, Hiroto Tsukioka