Patents Examined by Frantz Bataille
  • Patent number: 10592178
    Abstract: A printing system for printing a plurality of images in a first web and in a second web, includes a print head; a feeder configured to feed both the first web and the second web simultaneously to the print head in a feed direction relative said print head; a user interface configured to set a printing arrangement of the plurality of images in the first web and the second web and to input the print head and the feeder for performing printing according to the printing arrangement; and a print-pause module for stopping printing of the printing arrangement, the print-pause module being configured to: provide to the user interface a print-pause arrangement in which a print-pause is arranged in the printing arrangement upstream the feed direction with respect to both the print head and a first image whose printing is being performed in the first web when the print-pause module is selected; and cooperate with the user interface to input the print head and the feed means according to the print-pause arrangement to st
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Christian Tremblay, Stéphane Barizien
  • Patent number: 10594878
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a display that displays an overlapping image including plural images which are partially overlapped and are mutually deviated; a gaze detection unit that detects a gaze of an operator, which is fixed on the overlapping image; a motion detection unit that detects a specific motion that is made when the operator performs an operation on the overlapping image; and a display control unit that changes an arrangement of the plural images included in the overlapping image in a case where the gaze fixed on the overlapping image is detected and where the specific motion is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyo Nishida
  • Patent number: 10595258
    Abstract: In a wireless communication network, base stations exchange user data for a communication service between User Equipment (UE) and wireless network gateways. The network gateways exchange the user data with Internet Protocol (IP) routers. One of the gateways receives a Border Control Protocol (BGP) message from one of the IP routers indicating a performance issue with an IP address. The network gateway associates the IP address with the communication service and transfers signaling indicating a service issue. A management computer receives the signaling and transfers signaling to the base stations to shed the one gateway for the communication service. The base stations then exchange the user data for the communication service between the UEs and the wireless network gateways except for the one gateway. These other gateways exchange the user data for the communication service with the IP routers except for the IP router having the issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Francis Fiumano, Charles Andrew Robertson, II, Byron J. Hoskins, Joseph E. Gaudutis
  • Patent number: 10595297
    Abstract: Mobile devices may receive page transmissions that include information related to a service for which the mobile device is being paged. The mobile device may be provided with a policy that describes a priority of radio access technologies (RATs) based on the type of service for which the mobile device is being paged. The mobile device, based at least in part on the service information, may access one or more of the wireless communications networks based on the identified service and/or based on the policy. A page transmission may include an indication of a RAT that is to be used for the page response and/or an index into the policy. A base station that transmits a page transmission may include an identifier of a particular network that is to be accessed in response to the page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gavin Bernard Horn, Stefano Faccin, Osok Song
  • Patent number: 10586078
    Abstract: A generation unit is configured to generate a document with a font embedded therein in a case where a determination unit determines that a parameter is an instruction to transmit the generated document to a print service system, and configured to generate a document without the font embedded therein in a case where the determination unit determines that the parameter is not an instruction to transmit the generated document to the print service system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takayuki Uchida
  • Patent number: 10574851
    Abstract: When consecutively feeding a plurality of media, an image scanning apparatus, according to the length of a preceding medium in a feed direction, changes the feed control for feeding the succeeding medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Yoshikaie, Masatomo Kanamitsu, Wataru Beppu, Keisuke Miyauchi, Hiromichi Kitsuki
  • Patent number: 10567957
    Abstract: A system and method provide a security aspect for a UE in dual connectivity mode of operation in wireless communication networks. The system and method provide secure simultaneous transmission and reception in a secure manner between a User Equipment (UE) and one or more eNodeBs (eNBs) configured in an inter-eNB carrier aggregation scenario. The system establishes of a security context between the UE and the Secondary eNB (SeNB) using the RRC signaling between the UE and the Master eNB (MeNB), when a plurality of SCells within SeNB are added simultaneously. The system also detects the intruder in the user data radio bearers, while a UE is operating in dual connectivity mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mangesh Abhimanyu Ingale, Himke Van Der Velde, Rajavelsamy Rajadurai, Woo-Seong Kim
  • Patent number: 10547756
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a function controller. The function controller performs control so as not to execute a conveyance function when function information, which indicates whether to restrict execution of a conveyance function for conveying a sheet for each conveyance source of the sheet or each conveyance destination of the sheet, indicates that the execution of the conveyance function is restricted. The function controller performs control to execute the conveyance function when the function information indicates that the execution of the conveyance function is not restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuhiko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10540582
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to create a color conversion table with good gradation using a plurality of inks from a printer. Provided is a method for creating a color conversion table, the method comprising: a virtual color value determination process in which a plurality of virtual color values at a lattice point in a color conversion table in a virtual color space are determined; and an ink amount determination process in which a combination of ink amounts at the lattice point in the color conversion table is determined on the basis of a predetermined conversion coefficient and the virtual color values. At least one of the virtual color value determination process and the ink amount determination process is executed using a cubic spline function that is defined from the plurality of virtual color values or the ink amounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Ito
  • Patent number: 10536594
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an operation display device that includes an operation display device body, a front light emission portion and a rear light emission portion, the operation display device body including an operation display provided in one face of the operation display device body, the front light emission portion being provided on an upper side of the face of the operation display device body where the operation display is provided, the front light emission portion emitting light in accordance with a processing status, the rear light emission portion being provided on an upper side of an opposite face of the operation display device body to the operation display, the rear light emission portion emitting light in synchronization with the front light emission portion, wherein the operation display device is attached to an upper portion of a body of the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuyuki Ishida, Yuki Ono, Satoru Kaiya, Hiromasa Kanno, Tatsuya Sato, Osamu Takenouchi, Akio Fukuyama, Bokryong Lee
  • Patent number: 10536595
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus that includes an input unit to which given function selection and information are input, a display unit that displays a plurality of display items each including a function selection item, a language selection unit that selects a user selection language understandable to a user and a manager selection language understandable to a manager, and a display switching unit that switches a language of the display items displayed on the display unit through selection input to the input unit. Two-language simultaneous display, in which each of the display items displayed on the display unit is displayed by using both languages of the user selection language and the manager selection language, and single-language display, in which each of the display items is displayed by using only the user selection language, are switchable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nakai, Masao Saeda
  • Patent number: 10525716
    Abstract: A system tracks the fluid information in fluid cartridges used in digital dispense devices connected to a network. Each device stores a history of cartridges that have been used in the device. Each cartridge stores a fluid information value and/or an indicator that indicates whether the cartridge has been used before in any device. When a device receives a previously-used cartridge, the device broadcasts a request for information about that cartridge from the other devices. Each device having the matching cartridge identification value in its history reports over the network the latest fluid information value associated with the matching cartridge identification value. The requesting device chooses the most up-to-date response based on the latest value of fluid information. The requesting device then updates its memory using the latest value and begins incrementing the information from that latest information for subsequent fluid dispense jobs performed using the installed cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bruce Deboard, Brian Jones
  • Patent number: 10528308
    Abstract: An aided design method of print layers for 3D printing is provided. The method is performed for rendering and displaying a GUI at a computer apparatus, selecting one of print layers, configuring an editable region and marking it on the GUI, configuring one or more print block(s) in the editable region according to an edit operation, generating one of multiple layers of object print data according to the print block(s) and performing above-mentioned steps repeatedly until all of the multiple layers of the object print data have been generated. The present disclosed example has an ability to aid the user to design multiple print layers and reducing a probability of failure of printing 3D physical model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignees: XYZPRINTING, INC., KINPO ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Peng-Yang Chen
  • Patent number: 10506108
    Abstract: A print system that is capable of performing calibration of the print system that includes a printing apparatus and an image processing apparatus that supplies image data to the printing apparatus appropriately. The printing apparatus controls execution of first calibration. The image processing apparatus controls execution of second calibration. A management unit manages an execution instruction of system calibration that performs the first calibration and the second calibration continuously. A first sending unit sends an execution command for performing the first calibration based on the execution instruction of the system calibration to the printing apparatus from the image processing apparatus. A second sending unit sends a notice showing that execution of the first calibration in response to the execution command was completed from the printing apparatus to the image processing apparatus. A control unit starts execution of the second calibration when the image processing apparatus receives the notice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaaki Yano, Nobuhiro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10498920
    Abstract: A light scanning apparatus including: a light receiving portion configured to receive a first laser beam to generate a synchronization signal; and a standing portion, wherein a first opening through which a part of the first laser beam that is emitted from a first light source and travels toward a rotary polygon mirror and the first laser beam that is emitted from the first light source and is deflected by the rotary polygon mirror pass and a second opening through which a part of the second laser beam that is emitted from a second light source and travels toward the rotary polygon mirror passes are provided in the standing portion, and wherein the first laser beam that is deflected by the rotary polygon mirror and passes through the first opening is incident on the light receiving portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuta Okada, Yuichiro Imai, Takehiro Ishidate, Daisuke Aruga, Yasuaki Otoguro
  • Patent number: 10484566
    Abstract: A light scanning apparatus including: a rotary polygon mirror configured to deflect a laser beam emitted from a light source; optical elements configured to guide the laser beam to a photosensitive member; a housing having a bottom surface and a side wall portion standing from the bottom surface and intersecting with a longitudinal direction of the optical elements; and a plurality of wall portions provided on the bottom surface so as to intersect with the longitudinal direction between the bottom surface and a lens of the optical elements that is closest to the rotary polygon mirror, the plurality of wall portions forming an air flow path for guiding an air flow caused by rotation of the rotary polygon mirror from a first space in which the rotary polygon mirror is arranged to a second space opposite to the first space with respect to the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Namba, Masahiro Ogura, Yosuke Murakami, Ken Katsuta, Yuta Okada
  • Patent number: 10484573
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes plural communication units, first and second authentication units, a selection unit, and a transmission unit. The plural communication units are connected to one or more communication lines. The first authentication unit performs user authentication by a first authentication method. The second authentication unit performs user authentication by a second authentication method. The selection unit selects, if the first authentication unit performs user authentication, a communication unit from among the plural communication units by a first method as a communication unit used for transmission of information to a terminal apparatus, or, if the second authentication unit performs user authentication, a communication unit from among the plural communication units by a second method as a communication unit used for transmission of information to the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10476614
    Abstract: A small consumer drone is used to measure RF signals, such as within the vicinity of a cell tower. The drone's frame is fitted with an antenna support device which can be in the form of two intersecting arches of dielectric material. An antenna of selected specification is secured to the antenna support. In this way, the antenna support not only provides a secure mounting for the antenna, but also provides protection from objects above the drone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventor: Thomas R. Brinkoetter
  • Patent number: 10477035
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a conveyor that conveys paper on which an image is formed along a conveyance path; a first guide member including a first opening on a reference surface opposed to the conveyance path that guides the conveyed paper; a first opposing member that arranges the image on the paper in a colorimetric range set in the first opening on the reference surface by pressing the reference surface via the paper to allow the paper to abut the reference surface; a second opposing member that presses the reference surface by a pressing surface including a calibrating member in a reference color to arrange the calibrating member in the colorimetric range; and a colorimeter arranged on a side opposite to the conveyance path across the first guide member that performs colorimetry on the image on the paper and the calibrating member arranged in the colorimetric range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji Kawatsu
  • Patent number: 10477356
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, assemblies and devices useful for identifying the location and/or motion of a mobile device in a specified area, for assisting in mapping a specified area and also to methods, assemblies and devices for determining a location of anchors found at fixed locations in a specified area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Ariel-University Research and Development Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Boaz Ben-Moshe, Nir Shvalb