Patents Examined by Douglas Q. Tran
  • Patent number: 11546960
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a wireless communication unit wirelessly communicating with an external access point; and a processing unit performing communication control for the wireless communication unit. The processing unit performs uninstallation of driver software causing the wireless communication unit to operate and installation of the driver software after the uninstallation, as a self-repair and reboot, when there is an error in wireless connection with the external access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Junpei Koizumi
  • Patent number: 11537343
    Abstract: A server includes a server storage that stores a print job related information record in which a print job ID is associated with network information, a first acquirer that acquires a print request, a transmitter that transmits a print instruction to a terminal device based on the stored network information associated with the print job ID included in the print request acquired by the first acquirer, a second acquirer that acquires print job information from the terminal device, and an updater that updates, based on the acquired print job information, the stored print job related information record including the print job ID included in the print job information acquired by the second acquirer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiromu Okada
  • Patent number: 11528766
    Abstract: A controller of an electronic device starts a setup procedure according to a first method. In the setup procedure according to the first method, the controller notifies a start of the setup and attempts to obtain connection information from an external device. When the connection information is obtained, the controller stores the connection information and attempts to connect to an access point using the connection information. When the connection information is not obtained in the setup procedure according to the first method, the controller starts a setup procedure according to a second method to display a message requesting input of the connection information, obtain the connection information through an input interface, and attempt to connect to the access point of the wireless network using the obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masayoshi Osaki
  • Patent number: 11520534
    Abstract: The printing device registers setting information pertaining to printing and sends identification information of the registered setting information registered to an information processing device in response to an obtainment request from the information processing device. When a print job including the identification information is received from the information processing device, the printing device executes the print job having applied the setting information corresponding to the identification information to print settings of the print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Kaneda
  • Patent number: 11513975
    Abstract: The invention provides an alternative applications programming interface (API) for a software application to interface with and to control and coordinate the operation of a variety of specialty devices, including a barcode scanning device and a label printing device. In some embodiments, this alternative API is provided via a software application interface module (SAIM) that is remotely accessible to a software application module (SAM) via a computer network. The SAIM provides for interface and control of specialty devices that would otherwise be un-accessible to a software application module (SAM), via employment of a device specific interface module (DSIM), which functions like a device driver to specialty devices that can be geographically distributed away from the software application module (SAM) and sway from the software application interface module (SAIM), and also function in circumstances where the software application module (SAM) is mobile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventor: Majid Amani
  • Patent number: 11516363
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect an object, a reception unit configured to receive an operation of a user, and a shifting unit configured to shift, if the detection unit detects an object, a power state of the image forming apparatus from a first power state to a second power state different from the first power state, and shift, if the reception unit receives an operation of a user, the power state of the image forming apparatus from the second power state to the first power state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobuyasu Ito
  • Patent number: 11509792
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a communication apparatus capable of preventing a decrease in the speed of communication with an external device due to execution of a handover when the communication apparatus is connected to the external device, and also directed to a control method and a recording medium. A communication apparatus provides, by using a first communication portion that uses a first communication method, communication information for performing communication based on a second communication method to an external device, and causes a second communication portion that uses the second communication method to connect with the external device using the second communication method, and performs control in such a manner that, in a case where the second communication portion connects with the external device, the first communication portion is used to provide communication information to no other external devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koji Yasuzaki
  • Patent number: 11507332
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit that acquires setting information for performing a setting of a network of the apparatus, and first environment information of the network from an external management apparatus, through a communication line; a setting unit that performs the setting of the network using the setting information acquired by the first acquisition unit; a second acquisition unit that acquires second environment information of the network after execution of the setting by the setting unit; and a notification unit that notifies that the network to which the apparatus is connected is incorrect, in a case where the first environment information and the second environment information do not match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Tatsuyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11507333
    Abstract: A control method includes transmitting, based on reception of a predetermined operation a first command to cause a communication apparatus to search for a predetermined access point using at least one communication channel including a communication channel used by the predetermined access point among a plurality of communication channels available for use by the communication apparatus and without using at least one other communication channel other than the at least one communication channel among the plurality of communication channels available for use by the communication apparatus, the predetermined access point being connected to an information processing apparatus at least when the predetermined operation is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Jun Ehara
  • Patent number: 11501173
    Abstract: A compression policy to produce compression profiles for compressing trained machine learning models may be trained using reinforcement learning. An iterative reinforcement learning may be performed response to a search request. Different prospective compression profiles may be generated for received machine learning models according to a compression policy being trained. Performance of compressed versions of the trained neural networks according to the compression profiles may be caused using data sets used to train the machine learning models. The compression policy may be updated according to reward signal determined from an application of a reward function for performance criteria to performance results of the different versions of the machine learning models. When a search criteria is satisfied, the trained compression policy may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gurumurthy Swaminathan, Ragav Venkatesan, Xiong Zhou, Runfei Luo, Vineet Khare
  • Patent number: 11503180
    Abstract: Methods and systems for secure media processing may be used to execute and certify a digital media asset by verifying that the digital media asset is authentic and has not been altered since capture. In some cases, these secure media processing techniques may be used in the mobile certification and execution application and a corresponding server system. The mobile application and the corresponding server system may automatically generate finalized documents upon receiving certified digital media and the corresponding metadata from the users. The digital media and other information from the users may be received while the user is in communication with other users. A biometric and artificial intelligent feature recognition system may be utilized to receive biometric data and verify identity. Data transferred to a secure server are accessible by various parties involved in the certification and execution process to provide transparency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: ImageKeeper, LLC
    Inventors: Jerry Speasl, Michael Patterson, Marc Roberts
  • Patent number: 11500598
    Abstract: A printing apparatus of the present invention receives a print job from an information processing apparatus and performs printing. The printing apparatus obtains, from the information processing apparatus, information indicating the number of pages per copy of the print job, determines whether double-sided printing is to be performed for the print job, and determines, based on the obtained information, whether the print job is a print job in which the number of pages per copy is an odd number of pages. The printing apparatus controls to print by inserting a blank page before a page that is received first in the print job, based on a determination that, in the print job, the number of pages per copy is an odd number of pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sho Saito
  • Patent number: 11500597
    Abstract: A server system includes a first receiving unit configured to receive, from a printing apparatus operated by a user, a registration request for information regarding the printing apparatus, an acquisition unit configured to acquire information to be used for acquisition of capability information of the printing apparatus, from the printing apparatus that has transmitted the registration request, a transmission unit configured to transmit the acquired information to a different server system, and a second receiving unit configured to receive, from the different server system, capability information of the printing apparatus that is identified by the different server system based on the transmitted information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirokazu Saigusa
  • Patent number: 11494699
    Abstract: Features are used to train one or more ML models in a modelling layer. In a feature selection layer, each generated ML model is analyzed to determine, for each input feature, a degree of importance of the feature on the results generated by the ML model. Features with low importance are identified and the information is propagated backward to the data source and feature engineering layers. In response, the data source and feature engineering layers refrain from gathering or generating the unimportant features. Based on a confidence measure of the determination that each feature is important or unimportant, a number of periods between reevaluation of the feature importance is determined. After the number of periods has elapsed, a removed feature is restored to the pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Jacques Doan Huu
  • Patent number: 11494145
    Abstract: A server apparatus providing a cloud print service that receives a print job and causes an image forming apparatus to perform print processing for the received print job, the server apparatus including: a first reception unit configured to receive a print job from a client terminal or another server apparatus that provides another cloud print service; a second reception unit configured to receive instructions to change setting of the print job received by the first reception unit, the instructions being given via the image forming apparatus; and a notification unit configured to notify the other server apparatus of contents of the instructions in a case where the instructions received by the second reception unit are instructions for the print job received by the first reception unit from the other server apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuya Nakashima
  • Patent number: 11489978
    Abstract: The present invention is an information processing device in which a printer driver for causing an image forming device to perform processing according to items is installed, and which is provided with an editable tab on a settings screen of the printer driver such that the items can be selected by a user. The information processing device includes a controller that, in a state where information about the editable tab has been registered in the image forming device by an administrator, and an acquisition request for information about the registered editable tab has been made from the printer driver to the image forming device, causes information about the registered editable tab to be transmitted to the information processing device, and causes the transmitted information to be reflected in the editable tab of the printer driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi Kawano
  • Patent number: 11483438
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of executing near field wireless communication, comprises: a display unit configured to display a screen; an obtaining unit configured to obtain identification information regarding a device from a near field wireless communication tag with use of the near field wireless communication; a selection unit configured, in a case where the obtaining unit obtained the identification information, to select one of first processing for connecting to the device indicated by the identification information and second processing for connecting to the device indicated by the identification information and sending data to the device, based on a type of screen being displayed by the display unit; and a processing unit configured to execute the processing selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shukei Kurihara
  • Patent number: 11481169
    Abstract: In a case where a registration state of a printing apparatus in operating system (OS) standard print software and a registration state of the printing apparatus in print conversion software do not match each other, an information processing apparatus performs a process for matching between a registration state of a print queue of the printing apparatus in the OS standard print software and the registration state of the printing apparatus in the print conversion software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kouichi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11477344
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and a method of controlling the information processing apparatus are provided. The information processing apparatus stores a plurality of learned models, determines whether the stored plurality of learned models include confidential information, and presents, to a user, learned models of the plurality of learned models determined to include the confidential information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takahiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11461064
    Abstract: A server providing a cloud print service includes at least one processor that executes a set of instructions, when executed, causing the server to perform operations including acquiring attribute information indicating printing capabilities of a printing apparatus when the printing apparatus is registered as an output destination printer, registering output destination printer information by associating the acquired attribute information with information indicating an output destination, and transmitting, in a case where a request for acquiring capability information about the registered output destination printer is received, the attribute information about the registered output destination printer to a client terminal as a response to the request, wherein in the registering, even in a case where the acquired attribute information about the printing apparatus includes an attribute that is not supported by the cloud print service, the attribute information is registered as the output destination printer infor
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Go Inoue