Patents Examined by Gabriel I. Garcia
  • Image processing apparatus for detecting a standing-up motion to change print mode and non-transitory computer readable medium
    Patent number: 11190662
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a detector and a change unit. The detector detects a standing-up motion of a person after receipt of a print instruction. The change unit changes from a low-power consumption mode to a printing mode in response to detection of the standing-up motion, the printing mode being a ready-to-print mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kawata, Kensuke Okamoto, Hideki Yamasaki, Yoshifumi Bando, Ryoko Saitoh, Tomoyo Nishida
  • Communication system, reception terminal, communication method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 11184502
    Abstract: A control circuit of a reception terminal in a communication system is configured to cause a first communicator to transmit a polling request to a first transmission terminal at a start timing of a cycle included in two or more consecutive cycles. The control circuit is configured to cause the first communicator to stop transmission of the polling request in a cycle following a transmission cycle and is configured to wait for reception of the response data in a case in which reception of the response data is not completed in the transmission cycle. The transmission cycle is a cycle in which the polling request is transmitted. The control circuit is configured to cause the first communicator to transmit the polling request to the first transmission terminal at a start timing of a cycle following another cycle in which reception of the response data is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Arata Shinozaki, Yusaku Fujita
  • Image reading apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium
    Patent number: 11178304
    Abstract: An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to accurately derive an inclination of a line image sensor. One embodiment of the present invention is an image reading apparatus including: a line image sensor in which reading elements for reading an image are arrayed in a predetermined direction; a first derivation unit configured to, based on read data acquired by reading a chart on which a plurality of dot patterns is printed with the line image sensor, derive coordinates of each of the plurality of dot patterns; a second derivation unit configured to derive an inclination angle of the line image sensor based on the coordinates derived by the first derivation unit; and a first calculation unit configured to calculate a first correction value for correcting the inclination of the line image sensor based on the inclination angle derived by the second derivation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuki Kamio, Katsutoshi Miyahara, Yuichi Sato, Takahiro Ode
  • Image forming apparatus and image reading device that stops conveyance of a sheet based on a change amount of skew angle
    Patent number: 11178302
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first detector, a second detector, and a determination section. The first detect detects a first skew angle of a sheet. The second detector is located downstream of the first detector and detects a second skew angle of the sheet. The determination section determines whether or not to stop conveyance of the sheet based on the first skew angle and the second skew angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yuki Kawakubo
  • Information processing apparatus having at least one interface for electric power transfer, method of controlling information processing apparatus to transfer electric power to an external device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
    Patent number: 11165923
    Abstract: A CPU of an MFP receives battery information from a first external device via a first interface, determines whether a total amount of electric power supplied to a plurality of interfaces from a power supply is maintained, and reduces an amount of the electric power supplied to the first external device via the first interface in a case where determining that the first external device has no battery based on the battery information in response to determining that the total amount of the electric power supplied to the plurality of the interfaces from the power supply is not maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shimamura, Hajime Usami
  • Image processing apparatus having functions including scan function, control method thereof, and storage medium storing program for executing control method
    Patent number: 11165924
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that is capable of executing a scan image process and another image process in parallel without reducing a scanning speed. A scanner scans an image of a document and generates image data. An image processor applies an image process to image data. A scanner controller transfers image data to the image processor from the scanner through a data bus. A controller determines whether a first image process applied to the scanned image data is executed in parallel with a second image process and determines whether a setting about the first image process is a predetermined setting. The controller sets a transfer speed to a first speed when the image processes are not executed in parallel and sets the transfer speed to a lower second speed when the image processes are executed in parallel and when the setting about the first image process is the predetermined setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Maruyama
  • Digital printing for flooring and decorative structures
    Patent number: 11148465
    Abstract: Certain aspects and features relate to using an image modifier to generate digital designs and to printing the digital designs on a structure for flooring or other decoration that can more realistically mimic designs found in nature or otherwise provide designers with the freedom to create aesthetic designs more easily. An image modifier can receive an image, such as an image of a naturally occurring view and generate modified designs based on the image. The modified designs can be slight modifications to the image and printed on the structures for flooring such that together the printed structures exhibit the appearance of a design found in nature or a desired appearance by a designer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Interface, Inc.
    Inventors: Graeme Robert Ripley, John Proctor Bradford
  • Image reading apparatus and method configured to correct tilt image data
    Patent number: 11140295
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read an image of a document and generate image data, a filtering unit configured to perform filtering processing on the image data generated by the reading unit and generate image data, a binarization unit configured to perform binarization processing based on the image data generated by the filtering unit using a first threshold value to generate first binary image data, and perform binarization processing based on the image data generated by the filtering unit using a second threshold value to generate second binary image data, and a detection unit configured to detect an edge in the image data generated by the reading unit based on the first binary image data and the second binary image data generated by the binarization unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Daisuke Morikawa
  • People stream analysis method, people stream analysis apparatus, and people stream analysis system
    Patent number: 11138420
    Abstract: A people stream analysis apparatus includes an image information capturer that captures an external appearance image of a person, a person recognizer that recognizes the person from the external appearance image, a store inferrer that identifies from the external appearance image a possession carried by the person, and infers from the identified possession a store from which the possession has been obtained, a memory that stores, in an associated form, person information indicating the recognized person, store information indicating the inferred store, and time information indicating time at which the external appearance image has been captured, and an arrival store order determiner that determines an order of stores in which the person has visited, based on a change in a time sequence of listing of stores indicated by the store information stored on the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri Nishikawa, Jun Ozawa
  • Image reading apparatus and opening/closing apparatus
    Patent number: 11134162
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a lower unit, and a discharge tray and an upper unit that pivot with respect to the lower unit. An axis center of the discharge tray and an axis center of the upper unit are common, the image reading apparatus includes a first damping portion that damps pivoting of the discharge tray in at least an opening direction, and a second damping portion that damps pivoting of the upper unit in at least a closing direction, and the upper unit is configured to engage with the first damping portion, and, when the upper unit is closed from a state in which at least the discharge tray and the upper unit are opened, in addition to a damping force of the second damping portion, a damping force of the first damping portion is applied to the upper unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Fuji, Tomoyuki Mokuo, Hidenori Harada, Kazuya Hirahara, Tokujiro Okuno
  • Image forming apparatus that judges if an image of a post-processing mark is present in the scan data of a document
    Patent number: 11102366
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a document reading unit reading an image of a document and generating scan data of the document and a printing unit printing on a sheet the scan data generated by the document reading unit, and is configured to be able to feed the sheet subjected to printing by the printing unit to a post-processing device. The image forming apparatus includes a judging unit that judges whether an image of a post-processing mark which is composed of a staple mark or a punching hole is present in the scan data generated by the document reading unit, and a printing control unit that, when the judging unit judges that the image of the post-processing mark is present in the scan data, generates corrected data by deleting the image of the post-processing mark from the scan data and causes the printing unit to print the corrected data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Sekiguchi
  • Reception device and method to transmit data based on one or more tables
    Patent number: 11095793
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a reception device receiving facsimile data includes an interface and a processor. The interface receives the facsimile data. The processor transmits a facsimile image of the facsimile data to a transfer destination corresponding to a transmission source transmitting the facsimile data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuya Ishida
  • Image sensor with inside biometric authentication and storage
    Patent number: 11080524
    Abstract: The present technology is to provide an image sensor capable of enhancing the security of biometric information and lowering the risk of information leakage. An image sensor 10 includes: a biometric information acquisition unit 102 that acquires biometric information; a storage unit 14 that stores reference information to be compared with the biometric information; and a biometric authentication unit 104 that performs biometric authentication by comparing the biometric information with the reference information. The image sensor 10 further includes an encryption processing unit 105 that encrypts biometric authentication information that authenticates a living organism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Minagawa, Go Asayama, Toru Akishita, Hirotake Yamamoto, Shigeki Teramoto, Kazutaka Tachibana, Teiichi Shiga, Hiroshi Suzuki
  • Document reader and control method that reads document medium during transport
    Patent number: 11082575
    Abstract: A document reader includes a reading unit that reads an image of a document medium, a second driving roller pair that nips and transports the document medium downstream of a read-enabling position of the reading unit, and a control unit that controls rotation of the second driving roller pair. The control unit stops the rotation of the second driving roller pair in a state in which the document medium is not positioned in the read-enabling position and in a state in which the document medium is nipped by the second driving roller pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiro Ueyama, Kenichi Tanioka, Yuta Watanabe
  • Image forming apparatus to improve the speed of the copying process
    Patent number: 11076064
    Abstract: A division line number setting portion sets a division line number for each page image. A band dividing portion divides data of each page image into pieces of band data each of which is composed of data of as many line images as the division line number. A band number setting portion sets a specific band number in response to the division line number. A primary conveyance event outputting portion, in synchronization with a start of data processing for each page image, instructs to start a primary conveyance of a sheet to a resist position. A secondary conveyance event outputting portion, in synchronization with an end of data processing on as many pieces of band data as the specific band number from the 1st piece of band data for each page image, instructs to start a secondary conveyance the sheet from the resist position to pass a transfer position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Shigeoka
  • System and method of adjusting of an environment associated with a user
    Patent number: 11073907
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, methods, and/or processes may: determine multiple gaze vectors of a user viewing content of a foreground application displayed via a display; determine a pattern based at least on the multiple gaze vectors; determine if the pattern is a search pattern, a static pattern, or a reading pattern; if not so, make a first adjustment of an environment associated with the user; if so, determine if the foreground application is a productivity application; if not so, make the first adjustment of the environment associated with the user; if so, determine if the content of the foreground application is classified as productive; if not so, make the first adjustment of the environment associated with the user; and if so, make a second adjustment of the environment associated with the user, different from the first adjustment of the environment associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Spencer G. Bull, Tyler Ryan Cox, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Michael S. Gatson, Vivek Viswanathan Iyer, Jake Mitchell Leland
  • Image processing apparatus, control method for image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium to control reflected color components of input image
    Patent number: 11069031
    Abstract: A control method for an image processing apparatus includes setting a virtual light source, analyzing characteristics of a partial region of a subject in an input image acquired through image capturing, smoothing at least a portion of the input image on the basis of information about a result of the analysis, generating, on the basis of the smoothed input image, reflected color components in a case where the subject is irradiated with light from the virtual light source, and performing correction based on the reflected color components on the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kaori Tajima
  • Image forming apparatus capable of changing sensitivity of human body detection sensor when receiving disaster information
    Patent number: 11068220
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, a human body sensor, a communication section, and a controller. The image forming section forms an image on a recording medium. The human body sensor detects a human body. The communication section receives disaster information. When the communication section has received the disaster information, the controller controls the human body sensor such that sensitivity of the human body sensor is raised to a level higher than that before reception of the disaster information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Akira Ohashi
  • Creating a custom three-dimensional body shape model
    Patent number: 11062508
    Abstract: A series of captured images of a user is received. Using a processor, the images are processed to identify a portion of each of the images corresponding to the user. Parameters of a predetermined three-dimensional human model are modified to fit a modified version of the predetermined three-dimensional human model across the identified portions of the images to determine a set of specific parameters representing a body profile of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Stitch Fix, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Erick Moody
  • Methods and systems for tagged-signal verification
    Patent number: 11057538
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods and systems for tagged-signal verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventors: Boris Goldberg, Vittaly Tavor