Patents Examined by Fan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11373350
    Abstract: A flexible data editing scheme to change and modify an intermediate representation or conditional information for a portion of to-be-edited data is disclosed. One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a data editing apparatus, comprising: one or more memories; and one or more processors configured to receive a change indication to change at least a first data area of first data; generate second data by using one or more generative models and an intermediate representation for the first data area; and replace the first data area of the first data with the second data to generate third data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Preferred Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryohei Suzuki, Takeru Miyato, Taizan Yonetsuji
  • Patent number: 11361585
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose a deep learning-based face identification method and a related product. The method is applied to an electronic apparatus. The method includes: acquiring an aligned face image, and scaling the face image at a preset ratio to obtain a target image; extracting a pixel matrix of the target image, inputting the pixel matrix to the neural network model, and executing multilayer computing to obtain a computing result; and calculating a cosine similarity degree between the computing result and a facial template vector, wherein comparison is successful if the cosine similarity degree is greater than a preset threshold. The embodiments of the present application help improve the identification success rate and the identification speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: ZKTECO USA LLC
    Inventors: Shukai Chen, Feiyang Tong
  • Patent number: 11360717
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein modify AFP translations of non-AFP print jobs in order to ensure that exceptions in the non-AFP print jobs are handled correctly. One embodiment comprises a controller that receives a job ticket for a non-AFP print job, where the job ticket defines at least one page exception for the non-AFP print job. The controller receives an AFP translation of the non-AFP print job, where the AFP translation does not implement the at least one page exception defined in the job ticket for the non-AFP print job. The controller modifies the AFP translation to include one or more structured fields based on the at least one page exception, and provides the modified AFP translation to a print server to generate a printed output that represents the non-AFP print job as specified by the job ticket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Linda Sue Liebelt, Ned Otey, Jeffrey Alan Sikkink, David Laurence Wagner, Marquis G. Waller
  • Patent number: 11347961
    Abstract: Technology described herein includes a method that includes receiving, at one or more processing devices, data corresponding to a first image, and determining, by the one or more processing devices based on the received data, that a first set of pixel values of the first image corresponds to illumination of a first representative wavelength, and at least a second set of pixel values of the first image corresponds to illumination of a second representative wavelength. The illuminations of the first and second representative wavelengths constitute at least a portion of a first illumination sequence pattern used in capturing the first image. The method also includes determining that the first illumination sequence pattern matches a second illumination sequence pattern associated with a device from which the first image is expected to be received, and in response, initiating a biometric authentication process for authenticating a subject represented in the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Srikanth Parupati, Zikomo Fields, Reza R. Derakhshani
  • Patent number: 11347452
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus manages whether each of a plurality of print plug-ins is in an enabled state or in a disabled state, the plurality of print plug-ins adding at least a search function to an operating system operating on the information processing apparatus, and, if a search for a printer is instructed and the plurality of print plug-ins includes a print plug-in in the disabled state, performs a search for a printer by a print plug-in in the enabled state, and displays a detection result and a setting screen for setting the print plug-in in the disabled state to the enabled state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hisashi Kato
  • Patent number: 11310371
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a storage configured to store a machine-learned model, a reception section configured to receive error information and operation information transmitted from an electronic apparatus, and a processor configured to determine whether a notification indicating error information is to be made for a user. The machine-learned model mechanically learns a condition of the notification indicating error information to be made to the user based on a data set in which the error information, the operation information, and action information indicating user action performed in response to the notification of the error information are associated with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiko Mizuta
  • Patent number: 11307814
    Abstract: A portable terminal device includes a determination section that determines whether or not a notification of designation information for designating print data is required, in accordance with a determination criterion relating to a printing desire of a user to output the print data by printing, and a notification section that notifies the user of the designation information of the print data, of which a notification is determined to be required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11297191
    Abstract: A system for selective document scanning and storage is provided. The system comprises: a memory device with computer-readable program code stored thereon; a communication device connected to a network; and a processing device, wherein the processing device is configured to execute the computer-readable program code to: receive a document via a user device comprising an image capturing device configured to capture an image of the document; determine an error with the document; in response to determining the error with the document, trigger transmission of a signal to the image capture device; and modify a document image capture based on receiving the signal at the image capture device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Martin Mattison, Matthew Edward Williams
  • Patent number: 11281408
    Abstract: A method for a communication system including a communication apparatus and a terminal apparatus. The communication apparatus transmits message information including first language information for expressing a message indicating predetermined information in a first language and second language information for expressing the message indicating the predetermined information in a second language different from the first language. Where the first language corresponds to a terminal supporting language selected by a user on a screen displayed on a display unit of the terminal apparatus, a process is executed that displays the message indicating the predetermined information based on the message information in the first language on the display unit. Where the first language does not correspond to the terminal supporting language, a process is executed that displays the message indicating the predetermined information based on the message information in the second language on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryo Suzaki
  • Patent number: 11281941
    Abstract: A danger ranking training method comprising training a first deep neural network for generic object recognition within generic images, training a second deep neural network for specific object recognition within images of a specific application, training a third deep neural network for specific scene flow prediction within image sequences of the application, training a fourth deep neural network for potential danger areas localization within images or image sequences of the application using at least one human trained danger tagging method, training a fifth deep neural network for non-visible specific object anticipation and/or visible specific object prediction within image or image sequences of the application, and determining at least one danger pixel within an image or an image sequence of the application using an end-to-end deep neural network as a sequence of transfer learning of the five deep neural networks followed by one or several end-to-end top layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: IMRA EUROPE S.A.S.
    Inventors: Dzmitry Tsishkou, Rémy Bendahan
  • Patent number: 11275954
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging device mounted in a vehicle, and a determination unit configured to perform image recognition on the image acquired by the acquisition unit to perform determination about whether or not a monitoring target registered in advance is included. The determination unit performs the determination on an image captured in a geographical range set in association with the monitoring target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuya Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11262959
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for estimating ink use by a printer is provided. The method involves receiving, by a computer, a request for a comingled print job comprising a plurality of print jobs to be carried out by the printer. The method also involves traversing, by the computer, pages of the comingled print job and identifying, for each page of the comingled print job, a print job of the plurality of print jobs to which the page belongs. The method also involves for each of the plurality of print jobs, calculating, by the computer, an estimated total amount of ink required for printing the print job. The method also involves communicating, by the computer, to a client terminal, the estimated total amounts of ink required for printing the plurality of print jobs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Javier A. Morales
  • Patent number: 11256456
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of sheet placement portions, a count processing portion, and a limitation processing portion. The count processing portion counts a cumulative number of output prints that are output by executions of print jobs during a predetermined unit time period. When a sum of a number of prints to be output by a processing-target print job and the cumulative number of output prints exceeds a predetermined upper-limit number of sheets, the limitation processing portion limits an execution of the processing-target print job when a sheet supply source of the processing-target print job is not a specific sheet placement portion among the plurality of sheet placement portions, and permits the execution of the processing-target print job when the sheet supply source is the specific sheet placement portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Toshinobu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11219426
    Abstract: A method and system for determining an irradiation dose. The method for determining the irradiation dose includes determining a pixel having a biological feature in a region of interest in a radiotherapy simulated locating image by using a retrospective label; extracting a local radiomics feature based on the pixel having the biological feature, in which the local radiomics feature includes a grayscale histogram intensity, a tumor shape feature, a textural feature, a Laplacian of Gaussian filtering feature, and a wavelet feature; acquiring the local radiomics features to be measured; identifying a positive region having the local radiomics features to be measured based on the local radiomics features; performing three-dimensional reconstruction for the peripheral boundary of the positive region to determine a three-dimensional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: Tumor Hospital of Shandong First Medical University (Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute
    Inventors: Jian Zhu, Zhen Hou, Zhenjiang Li, Haining Yu, Tong Bai, Yong Yin, Baosheng Li
  • Patent number: 11221813
    Abstract: A method for asset routing including receiving a digital asset, determining a set of print partners for the digital asset, determining a set of candidate batches for the digital asset, selecting a print partner for the digital asset, optionally determining a print partner for an unmatched digital asset, and routing the digital asset to the print partner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Lob.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Leore Avidar, Ami Wang, Manushika Yapa, Andrew Nisbet, Boa Khanh Tran
  • Patent number: 11221806
    Abstract: A print support apparatus that receives a print target image selected in a terminal apparatus having a display unit, on which image browsing is possible, and instructs a printer to perform image print includes at least one processor. The processor is configured to generate a terminal setting history by receiving and recording a terminal setting value, which is transmitted in a case where a specific event occurs and is involved in image browsing, from at least one terminal apparatus, specify the terminal setting value having a longest image browsing time as a reference setting value based on the terminal setting history, and correct a characteristic of the print target image based on the reference setting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Otani
  • Patent number: 11216698
    Abstract: The disclosed technology teaches training a NR VMOS score generator by generating synthetically impaired images from FR video using filters tuned to generate impaired versions and applying a FR VMOS generator to pairs of unimpaired FR images from the FR video and the impaired versions of the FR images to create ground truth scores for the impaired versions. The disclosed method also includes training by machine learning model an image evaluation classifier using the ground truth scores and the impaired versions to generate NR VMOS scores, and storing coefficients of the image evaluation classifier for use as the NR VMOS score generator. Also disclosed is generating a NR VMOS score by invoking the trained NR VMOS score generator, with stored coefficients generated by feeding the trained NR VMOS score generator with images captured from scenes in a video to be scored, and evaluating the images to generate NR VMOS scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Spirent Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Colligan, Jeremy Bennington
  • Patent number: 11200017
    Abstract: A method for providing a cloud print service includes receiving, from an external apparatus, a print job that is to be transmitted to a printing apparatus, and registering in the cloud print service at least one or more printer objects that is used to transfer the received print job to the printing apparatus, transmitting, to the second cloud print service, a registration request to register at least one of the printer objects registered in the cloud print service as a cloud printer that is used by a second cloud print service different from the provided cloud print service, and transmitting, in a case where a cloud printer corresponding to the printer object is registered as the cloud printer of the second cloud print service based on the registration request, ability information indicating that a printing apparatus corresponding to the printer object supports a pass-through mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hayato Udo
  • Patent number: 11188280
    Abstract: A method of providing a screen for manipulating execution of an application of an image forming apparatus, and the image forming apparatus using the method. The method includes an operation of displaying, on the screen, a first user interface for setting options to be applied to the execution of the application, and a second user interface including at least one virtual button for controlling the operation of the image forming apparatus, so that a user may control the image forming apparatus without using physical buttons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Kwang-soo Ha, Se-young Kim, Se-rrah Lim
  • Patent number: 11190667
    Abstract: An image forming device according to the present disclosure includes a facsimile communication unit and a network communication unit. The facsimile communication unit transmits image information in increments of pages to a facsimile device that is a transmission destination, via a public telephone line. The network communication unit transmits image information as a file to an information processing device, via a network. A transmission processing unit performs broadcast transmission processing of transmitting same image information to multiple transmission destinations at one time, by at least one of the facsimile transmission unit and the network transmission unit. Further, a transmission report notification unit makes notification of transmission report information, including transmission destination information representing the transmission destinations of the broadcast transmission processing, to all of the transmission destinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakamura, Yuki Shibayama