Patents Examined by Haris Sabah
  • Patent number: 11079980
    Abstract: An image processing program includes a set of program instructions executable on an information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masafumi Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11079832
    Abstract: The power supply is capable of operating in a first state and a second state having a consumption power lower than a consumption power of the first state. The power supply controls a first power supply in the first state such that a first DC voltage is a first voltage and controls the first power supply in the second state such that the first DC voltage is a second voltage lower than the first voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuya Hirano, Junya Kobayashi, Masamitsu Watahiki
  • Patent number: 11082569
    Abstract: One or more image processing apparatuses, control methods and storage mediums for use therewith are provided herein. At least one image processing apparatus receives, from a communication terminal, setting information relating to transmission of image data. Upon reception of the setting information from the communication terminal, the image processing apparatus displays a confirmation screen containing a message regarding the setting information. The image processing apparatus displays a different message in the confirmation screen displayed on a display device depending on a condition of the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11076065
    Abstract: An edge detection unit is arranged in a conveying portion conveying a sheet and detects the edge of the sheet in the width direction perpendicular to the sheet conveying direction. A light source unit is arranged opposite the sheet. A detecting portion holder holds the edge detection unit and the light source unit. A conveying roller pair positions the sheet conveyed toward the edge detection unit. A unit housing houses the detecting portion holder and the conveying roller pair. The edge detection unit has a contact glass making contact with the sheet. The light source unit has a facing glass facing the contact glass. One glass out of the contact glass and the facing glass is inclined downward at a first angle with respect to the tangent line, which passes through the nip portion between the conveying roller pair, toward the downstream side in the sheet conveying direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Naoto Miyakoshi
  • Patent number: 11074019
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a detector, a reception unit, an output unit, and a controller. The detector detects a distance between the image forming apparatus and a mobile terminal apparatus that is located near the image forming apparatus. The reception unit receives printing data from a mobile terminal apparatus. The output unit outputs, when a specific operation is performed by a user, a printing result based on the printing data received by the reception unit. The controller controls, in a case where the printing data received by the reception unit is printing data from a mobile terminal apparatus for which the distance detected by the detector is within a preset range, the output unit to output the printing result without requiring the specific operation by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventor: Shinji Akahira
  • Patent number: 11073890
    Abstract: An image forming system includes image forming apparatuses connected to a network, a managing device connected to the network and being communicable with the image forming apparatuses, and user terminals communicable with the network. The image forming apparatuses are respectively connected to local area networks in the network. Each image forming apparatus is set to any of a normal mode, a sleep mode with power consumption less than the normal mode and an energy saving mode with power consumption less than the sleep mode. The managing device counts the number of the user terminals connected to the same local area network as the image forming apparatus and, if the counted number is less than a threshold value, transmits an energy saving shift instruction to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus sets to the energy saving mode, if receiving the energy saving shift instruction from the managing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Masaki Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 11076055
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that is capable of resuming an interrupted process without applying the time and effort more than needed to a user. A data transmission unit transmits execution data to a process execution apparatus. A detection unit detects an abnormal state of the information processing apparatus. A reboot unit reboots the information processing apparatus. An obtaining unit obtains an execution condition of the execution data by the process execution apparatus. The reboot unit reboots the information processing apparatus when the detection unit detects the abnormal state of the information processing apparatus. The transmission unit transmits the execution data to the process execution apparatus based on the execution condition obtained by the obtaining unit when the information processing apparatus was rebooted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke Kimura
  • Patent number: 11068218
    Abstract: An imaging method, an imaging device and an imaging system are provided. The imaging method includes: when receiving a terminal identification sent by a mobile terminal and directed to the mobile terminal, sending, by an imaging device, an imaging request message to a cloud server. The imaging request message includes the terminal identification and a communication parameter for communicating with the mobile terminal, used for the cloud server to verify identity of the mobile terminal according to the terminal identification and, after the identity verification is successfully passed and according to the communication parameter, to determine one imaging device, among all imaging devices that send imaging request messages, to perform an imaging task, and to send an imaging job to the one imaging device: and when receiving the imaging job sent by the cloud server, performing, by the imaging device, the imaging task according to the imaging job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: ZHUHAI PANTUM ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Zhao, Yinggui Chen
  • Patent number: 11070685
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a device image processor configured to receive the plurality of device image definitions and the plurality of device offset information definitions from the device image module, read, from the device configuration definition, a plurality of device image parts defined by the plurality of received device image definitions, respectively, receive, from the device image module, the device error definition and the error offset information definition, read, from the device configuration definition, an error image part defined by the received device error definition, arrange the plurality of read device image parts on a plurality of offset positions defined by the plurality of received device offset information definitions, respectively, and arrange the read error image part on an offset position defined by the received error offset information definition, to thereby generate a composite image, and cause the software executing module to display the composite image on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Daisaku Nagano, Hiroshi Manabe
  • Patent number: 11061633
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (20) includes: an operation/display portion (22); a reception processing portion (211) that receives a selection operation for selecting an objective related to setting a print job; and a display processing portion (214) that, when the reception processing portion (211) has received the selection operation, displays, among a plurality of setting items G22 to G29 related to the print job, a plurality of specific setting items G22 to G28 that have preliminarily been associated with the objective selected by the selection operation, in such a manner as to be distinguishable from the other setting item G29.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Ueno
  • Patent number: 11061625
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that improves user-friendliness in changing settings concerning the control thereof. Settings of the information processing apparatus are classified according to categories, and restart information indicative of whether or not restart of the information processing apparatus is required to cause changes of the settings to take effect is stored on a category-by-category basis. A configuration file for changing the settings is acquired. Before changing the settings based on the configuration file, it is determined based on categories of to-be-changed settings and the restart information whether or not the restart is required to cause the changes in the settings specified in the configuration file to take effect. The results of determination are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noritsugu Okayama
  • Patent number: 11061634
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display device, a state detector, a storage device, an input device, and a control device. The control device causes the display device to display, when the open state is detected by the state detector, and the user information stored in the storage device and information received through the input device agree with each other, first information stored in the storage device in association with user information on a first display panel exposed in an open state of the display device, and restricts the display device from displaying the first information, when the open state of the display device is detected by the state detector, but the user information and the information received through the input device disagree, or when a folded state is detected by the state detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Kohei Konishi
  • Patent number: 11060590
    Abstract: In one example, an apparatus includes a plate configured to pivot about a pivot point, a pulley coupled to a first planar side of the plate and configured to rotate a belt, a motor coupled to the first planar side of the plate and configured to drive the pulley, and a torsion spring coupled to a second planar side of the plate that is opposite the first planar side and configured to apply tension to the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Gerald Boyum, Matthew Douglas Reier, Kevin Lo
  • Patent number: 11061636
    Abstract: A print job data generation portion generates print job data, including flatplan information that specifies an actual position of each of pages on a unit printing sheet, based on submission data and a flatplan template. In the case where a page size in the submission data is smaller than a maximum page size defined by the flatplan template, the print job data generation portion determines the position of each of the pages in accordance with an intra-cell positioning rule set in the flatplan template Dt with no change in the folding position represented by the flatplan template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yo Izawa, Takako Kato, Yoshihiko Onogawa
  • Patent number: 11055326
    Abstract: A method for indexing and retrieving text that includes affixing a first text identifier adjacent to a first body of text, the first body of text is included in a physical collection of text, the first text identifier that includes a first iconography; affixing a first page identifier adjacent to a page included in the physical collection of text, the page includes the particular body of text, the first page identifier includes the first iconography; and modifying a list to include a first summary of the first body of text, the list include a table of cells arranged into rows and columns, each of the rows is associated with one of a plurality of iconographies, the plurality of iconographies includes the first iconography, each iconography is associated with one indexing item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Lisa Shoeibi
  • Patent number: 11048185
    Abstract: An image controller of an image forming apparatus is configured to generate a light emission signal for detection for forming light emission for detection, and transmit the light emission signal for detection to a laser controller through a flexible flat cable, and the laser controller is configured to cause a semiconductor laser to emit light in accordance with the light emission signal for detection, and determine, based on a PD signal output from a PD that has received a light beam, whether improper connection has occurred in the flexible flat cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazumi Sato
  • Patent number: 11048452
    Abstract: When an IP address for use in an infrastructure connection mode and an IP address for use in a direct connection mode overlap each other, there is a possibility that an information processing apparatus incorrectly transmits data to an interface different from an interface supposed to receive the data. Thus, the information processing apparatus is prohibited from operating in the direct connection mode in a case where the IP address for use in the infrastructure connection mode and the IP address for use in the direct connection mode overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Haruki Sato
  • Patent number: 11039032
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device that forms an image on a sheet and executes predetermined image forming processing, a reception device that receives a user instruction, a sensor that acquires ambient temperature information, and at least one controller that prohibits execution of the predetermined image forming processing for a predetermined period if any of a plurality of conditions including a first condition and a second condition is satisfied, wherein the first condition is a condition that a plurality of pieces of temperature information acquired at a plurality of timings have a predetermined relationship and the second condition is a condition that a predetermined instruction is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yutaka Inoue
  • Patent number: 11036449
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus (100) includes a guaranteed area (RA), a receiving section (501), a second determination section (504), and an execution section (505). The receiving section (501) receives jobs (JB). When the receiving section (501) receives a first job (JB1), the second determination section (504) determines whether or not a first user (U1) who has input the first job (JB1) matches a second user (U2) who has input a second job (JB2) that is under execution using the guaranteed area (RA). When the second determination section (504) determines that the first user (U1) matches the second user (U2), the execution section (505) loads an image included in the first job (JB1) into the guaranteed area (RA), and executes the first job (JB1) subsequent to the second job (JB2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Koji Ikawa
  • Patent number: 11023182
    Abstract: A method for processing a print job on a document processing system including a plurality of devices which includes at least one printer and at least one finisher in order to deliver an end print product according to print specifications of the print job. Each device is described in a dedicated device model including constraints and capabilities of the device. The method includes receiving a print job with print specifications, generating a production route for the end product by selecting at least one printer and at least one finisher to deliver the end product, simulating the production route for the end product by executing the device models for the selected devices, generating finishing instructions for the at least one finisher, and processing the print job by printing the end product by the at least one printer and by finishing the end product by the at least one finisher according to the generated finishing instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Marvin P. BrĂ¼nner, Jan H. Geels, Harmannus B. Roelfs, Daniel B. Blasiak