Patents Examined by Frantz Bataille
  • Patent number: 10880447
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a size acquisition unit and a decision unit. The size acquisition unit acquires first size information indicating a first sheet size of a first sheet surface read by an image reading unit. The decision unit decides second image information indicating a second image size of a second image to be stored of a second sheet surface different from the first sheet surface based on first image information indicating a first image size of a first image to be stored based on the first size information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Fumiyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10873469
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus including: a destination setting unit configured to set a destination of an issuance request for an electronic certificate of a public key; a transmitting unit configured to transmit the issuance request to the destination at a time specified by a user; and an acquiring unit configured to acquire, from an external apparatus that is the destination, the electronic certificate that is issued on the basis of the issuance request transmitted to the destination. The information processing apparatus further includes a display control unit configured to display a setting screen on a display unit, the setting screen being a screen for receiving a setting of the destination. The display control unit prevents the setting screen from being displayed while the setting for transmitting the issuance request at the time specified by the user is in an enable state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoya Kakutani
  • Patent number: 10853000
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus configured to: receive a target file including m page data relating to m pages and classification data classifying the m page data into n groups, m being an integer of 3 or larger, and n being an integer of 2 or larger and smaller than m; receive information of a designated character string; extract specific page data relating to a page including the designated character string from the m page data by analyzing the target file; determine a specific group of the n groups by using the classification data, the specific group including the extracted specific page data; determine one or more target page data to be output of the page data included in the specific group, the one or more target page data including page data different from the specific page data; and output the one or more target page data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Itogawa
  • Patent number: 10838680
    Abstract: A display system includes an electronic apparatus, a display and a processor. The electronic apparatus is configured to display a first display screen on a first display. The display is configured to receive a touch input and is configured to display an operation panel as a second display screen. The processor is configured to execute a processing including a display control processing. The display control processing controls the second display screen on the display so that the first display screen is displayed on the operation panel, during a predetermined conduct including a control on the first display screen in accordance with user operation via a first operation unit, when the display is connected to the electronic apparatus as a second operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Itakura
  • Patent number: 10831426
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit stores job parameters shared by a group of image forming apparatuses. The processor determines a job parameter among one of the shared job parameters that cannot be executed by the image forming apparatus and adjusts a set value of the job parameter so that the job parameter can be executed by the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kiyoshiro Hamamoto
  • Patent number: 10832102
    Abstract: A method and system for scanning a set of tabs, sensing tab shape information for tab positions in the set of tabs, storing sensed tab shape information, and applying the sensed tab shape information to printing applications. Sensed tab shape information is used to mask areas around tabs during tab printing tasks, allowing full bleed printing at each of the tab positions. Sensed tab shape information is also used to detect and purge unused tabs and automatically format tab printing annotations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Javier A. Morales
  • Patent number: 10827081
    Abstract: Server receives a log from a client apparatus, the client apparatus generating the log after the client apparatus executes a function, the log including a function identifier identifying the function, execution start date-and-time and execution end date-and-time of the function, and a setting value of each of one or more setting items about the function, determines whether or not performance of the function identified by the function identifier included in the received log is lower than a certain criterion on a basis of the execution start date-and-time and the execution end date-and-time included in the received log, and if the server apparatus determines that the performance of the function is low, sends a setting value stored in the storage device to the client apparatus, the setting value being a setting value, with which the performance was high, of each of the one or more setting items about the function-low-in-performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Maya Hiwatari
  • Patent number: 10817236
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a short-range wireless communication unit, an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of pieces of identification information from a plurality of mobile terminals located in a wireless communication area, a display unit that displays the acquired pieces of identification information, an operation input unit that identifies a mobile terminal by using a piece of identification information selected from among the pieces of identification information displayed on the display unit, a data communication unit that receives data only from the selected mobile terminal, and a printing unit. The operation input unit accepts designation, by an operator, of whether to print the received data for each selected mobile terminal. The printing unit prints data in accordance with the designation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Saeda, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano
  • Patent number: 10812665
    Abstract: An information transmitting apparatus includes a search unit and an information transmitting unit. The search unit searches for at least one destination linked with authentication information using a character string corresponding to the authentication information as a keyword. The information transmitting unit transmits information using a search result obtained by the search unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Ichikawa, Yuichi Nishii, Miyoko Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10812677
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an interface through which scanned image data obtained by scanning a designated region, is acquired, and a processor. The processor extracts a contour line representing a document area from the scanned image data, extracts vertices of the contour line, determines whether a plurality of original documents is present in the document area based on the vertices, extracts document image data of each original document from the scanned image data, and generates one file including the extracted document image data for each original document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiromasa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10807384
    Abstract: A method of using a central computer that is communicatively connectable to a first control computer and configured to dynamically allocate and transmit unique codes from a server to a first printing machine, having a first rate of printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Magic Add Oy
    Inventors: Samuli Manninen, Ari Salonen, Kalle Euro, Mika Skarp
  • Patent number: 10796208
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for inline rendering of a color filter within a print job. A program associated with a printing system can select an overhead transparency media to serve as a color filter during inline print job finishing. A duplex path and finishing for the transparency media can be enabled on the printing system by the program. A first side of the overhead transparency media can be printed on with one or more colors by the printing system by the program. A transform can be used on a second side of the overhead transparency media to correct for front to back registration and includes one or more colors printed directly underneath colors printed on the first side by the program. The transparency medium including color filters can be inserted into pages of the print job, which can be rendered in the form of a bound book.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Edward N. Chapman
  • Patent number: 10791209
    Abstract: A communication unit transmits an SSID of an access point which is a connection target in a first wireless communication scheme to electronic equipment in compliance with a second wireless communication scheme and receives an identifier of the electronic equipment in compliance with both the first wireless communication scheme and the second wireless communication scheme. When it is determined that both identifiers match, a processing unit notifies that a connection between the electronic equipment and the access point is successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Junpei Koizumi, Kenji Sakuda, Naoki Kojima
  • Patent number: 10776059
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is communicable with an information storing apparatus that is communicable with plural image forming apparatuses connected to a network and stores storage apparatus information identifying an image forming apparatus storing, for each user, job information associated with user information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyohhei Mukai, Keisuke Mori
  • Patent number: 10772143
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting information for device-to-device (D2D) operation in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) establishes a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a network. If the UE has interest to perform D2D operation, the UE transmits D2D information to the network. The D2D information may indicate various pieces of information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunghoon Jung, Youngdae Lee
  • Patent number: 10761786
    Abstract: A communication apparatus is provided which includes a control unit configured to perform control so that an execution frequency of predetermined communication in a state in which a connection using a communication method other than a Neighbor Awareness Network is established is lower than an execution frequency of the predetermined communication in a state in which a connection using the communication method other than the Neighbor Awareness Network is not established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Shimazaki
  • Patent number: 10764445
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural internal devices, a controller, and a communication path. The controller is configured to control the plural internal devices. The communication path is used for communication between the plural internal devices and the controller. Usage priority of the communication path is assigned to plural pieces of communication between the plural internal devices and the controller in a time divisional manner. The controller detects a status change of the image forming apparatus, and upon detecting the status change, interrupts the time divisional manner with a time slot of a specific internal device among the plural internal devices, the specific internal device corresponding to the status change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Shigeaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10761790
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus executes an operating system (OS) including a printing system that supports a first search protocol, and a printing function to generate a print job conforming to a first printing method and send the generated print job to a printer as a standard. A memory stores instructions, and a processor executes the instructions causing the information processing apparatus to receive a message conforming to the first search protocol from another printer that has been newly detected via the first search protocol if instructions for the use of the printing system included in the OS are provided by a user, and activate, upon condition that the detected printer has been selected and is determined not to conform to the first printing method based on contents of the received message, a function for downloading a print plug-in that supports the detected printer, wherein the print plug-in generates another print job and sends the generated another print job to the detected printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hisashi Kato
  • Patent number: 10735602
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus forms an image on a print medium, and the image forming apparatus includes: a storage that stores medium information including profile information corresponding to the print medium and attribute information of the print medium; and a medium detection sensor that detects attribute actual information of the print medium; wherein the medium information is configured such that the profile information corresponding to the print medium is associated with the attribute information of the print medium, and the attribute information or the print medium includes information detectable by the medium detection sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Fusako Ozawa
  • Patent number: 10728708
    Abstract: A network system analyzes data samples using embeddings based on, for example, symbolic representations of the data samples or representations in latent dimension space. The network system coordinates providers who provide geographical location-based services to users. The network system may receive data samples from the client device of a provider. For instance, a sensor of the client device captures the data samples during a transportation service along a particular route. To verify that the data samples accurately indicate the location or movement of the provider, the network system can generate a test embedding representing the data samples and compare the test embedding with a reference embedding. The reference embedding is generated based on data samples captured for other similar services, e.g., corresponding to providers who also provided transportation services along the same particular route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Fahrettin Olcay Cirit