Patents Examined by Henok A Shiferaw
  • Patent number: 11743401
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a first function of performing first processing based on image data obtained by reading a document, and a second function of performing second processing based on image data obtained by reading a document includes a controller including a processor that displays, on the display unit, a first setting screen for setting a setting value to be used for a job of the first function, displays, on a display unit, an object for accepting a user operation for displaying a second setting screen for setting a setting value to be used for a job of the second function together with at least a part of the first setting screen upon satisfaction of a predetermined condition in a state where the first setting screen is displayed and no user operation is accepted, and displays the second setting screen on the display unit upon selection of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11743394
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to transmit apparatus management information used in the management of the own apparatus to an external server is provided with a first communication unit; a second communication unit that is different from the first communication unit; a transmission unit configured to externally transmit apparatus management information via the first communication unit when in a regular power mode in which the information processing apparatus operates using a first power source configured to receive a power supply from outside the apparatus; and a control unit configured to perform, in a case that power supply to the information processing apparatus by the first power supply has been stopped, control such that power is supplied to the second communication unit by a second power source inside the apparatus after this power supply has been stopped, and the apparatus management information is externally transmitted via the second communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Minoru Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 11720294
    Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes an input device, a communication device, and a control device. The image indicated by the document is input to the input device. The communication device communicates with other electronic apparatuses. The control device includes a processor, and the processor functions as a controller by executing a control program. The controller detects a code indicating permission or prohibition of a job related to the document and a provider of the document from the input image, and determines the permission or prohibition of the job related to the document and the provider of the document on the basis of the detected code, and, in a case where it is determined that the job related to the document is permitted, executes the job related to the document, and notifies the provider that the job related to the document has been executed via the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hara Danica Teves
  • Patent number: 11720308
    Abstract: An image forming system includes a print system and a management server. The print system includes one or plural image forming apparatuses. The management server receives a print order from a user, and upon receiving the print order, performs a print job using the print system under a print condition specified by the print order. Further, the management server generates a suggestion of a print condition in consideration of operation status of the print system and an amount of a consumable good required for the print job, differently from the print condition specified by the print order, and notifies the user of the suggestion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Inventor: Atsushi Kimura
  • Patent number: 11720301
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a consumable cartridge and a main body. The consumable cartridge includes a cartridge memory storing usage information and identifying information. The main body includes a main memory and a controller. The controller stores the identifying information stored in the cartridge memory in the main memory and rewrites the usage information stored in the cartridge memory into information indicating that the consumable cartridge is used in a case where the usage information indicates that the consumable cartridge is unused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuki Fukusada
  • Patent number: 11706355
    Abstract: Provided is a system including: a printing apparatus; an information processing apparatus; and a server system. The printing apparatus outputs identification information on the printing apparatus. The information processing apparatus transmits the identification information obtained from the printing apparatus based on acceptance of an instruction for receiving a first service, and performs display control of the information processing apparatus. The server system executes processing for confirmation as to whether or not the printing apparatus identified by the identification information transmitted from the information processing apparatus is registered for a second service, and provides data for displaying an item for the second service in a case where the printing apparatus is not registered for the second service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke Nagao, Hiroki Hachiya
  • Patent number: 11706366
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit, a storage unit configured to store a program to be executed by the control unit, a verification unit configured to read the program from the storage unit and to verify the read program, and a light-emitting unit configured to be changed to a predetermined light-emitting state or to be changed from the predetermined light-emitting state based on a result of the verification of the program by the verification unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinichi Ono
  • Patent number: 11698765
    Abstract: A print system includes a printing apparatus to print content according to a print job, and a server system to provide at least one of video information or still image information for an online class to a client terminal as distribution information. The client terminal receives notification information indicating that printable study material for an online class is present as the print content, and a print job for printing the study material is issued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Abe
  • Patent number: 11695882
    Abstract: A controller of an image processor, when detecting a portable terminal device's presence, accepts a selecting operation to select whether or not to refer to an address book held by a portable terminal device (step S32), when accepting the request for referring to the address book, establishes a near field communication with the portable terminal device (Step S34), and acquires, from the portable terminal device, the destination information in the address book (Step S35). When acquiring the destination information in the address book, the controller generates a destination list based on the destination information (Step S36), accepts a selecting operation to select a destination of the image data from the destination list (Step S37), and sends the image data to the accepted destination (Step S39).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenichiroh Imayoshi
  • Patent number: 11693611
    Abstract: A printing system includes: a first printer; a second printer; a server device; and a client device. The first printer is configured to perform: receiving first authentication information; accessing, in response to determining that first authentication performed according to a first authentication method is successful, the server device using first account information; receiving, from the server device, a print job stored in association with user identification information included in the first authentication information; printing an image based on the print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanimoto, Kosuke Mori, Katsunori Enomoto, Yuqing Liu
  • Patent number: 11689683
    Abstract: A technique reduces the possibility of a leak of authentication information for a chat service. An image processing apparatus that communicates with a chat server configured to perform control to display received image data in a talk room of the chat server based on received information about the talk room includes a reception unit configured to receive predetermined information corresponding to a user by transmitting authentication information for the user logging in to a chat service to the chat server, a storage unit configured to store the predetermined information received by the reception unit, and a display unit configured to display the talk room that corresponds to the predetermined information and not to display the talk room that does not correspond to the predetermined information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kiichi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11683435
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an image forming control method, an image forming apparatus, and a non-transitory storage medium. The image forming control method includes acquiring job data and job parameters corresponding to the job data, where the job parameters include an image post-processing direction and a job data direction; determining a sheet feed direction based on the image post-processing direction and the job data direction in conjunction with a pre-stored corresponding relationship for characterizing a preset image post-processing direction, a preset job data direction, and a preset sheet feed direction; and based on the sheet feed direction, the job data, the job data direction, and the image post-processing direction, controlling an image forming device to perform an image forming operation, and controlling an image post-processing device to perform an image post-processing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: ZHUHAI PANTUM ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ran Zhu
  • Patent number: 11675558
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic process assembly, a processor, and a memory. The electrophotographic process assembly is configured to transfer a toner image formed on a photoconductive body rotating around an axis extending in a main scanning direction onto a sheet conveyed in a sub-scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction. The processor and memory are configured to store a print amount in a plurality of divided sections corresponding to the main scanning direction, acquire the print amount from a monitoring section in one or more monitoring target groupings corresponding to a predetermined section included in the plurality of divided sections, calculate an integrated print amount in the monitoring section, and output information relating to the monitoring target grouping corresponding to the integrated print amount in the monitoring section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasunari Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11677883
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an operating mechanism, a storage device, and a control device. The operating mechanism executes a job. The control device functions as a controller. When accepting a request to prepare execution of the job, the controller allows the operating mechanism to prepare the execution of the job to thus generate data for output and allows the storage device to save the data for output. When accepting a request to execute the job, the controller allows the operating mechanism to execute the job based on the data for output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Kyoichiro Hayashi, Tomihito Doi
  • Patent number: 11669289
    Abstract: A printing apparatus configured to store a first setting relating to print jobs designated for reserved printing, the first setting indicating an acceptance condition for accepting a print job designated for reserved printing, receive information of a print job and store the received information of the print job in a storage device. In a case where the received information of the print job indicates that the print job is a print job designated for reserved printing and the print job for which information has been received satisfies the acceptance condition indicated by the first setting, the information of the print job is stored in the storage device in a manner such that the print job is to be executed at the job execution time designated for the print job, and a print job corresponding to the stored information is executed at the job execution time designated in the stored information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takayuki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11659121
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first storage that stores therein operation flow information indicating an operation flow in the image forming apparatus. An information processing device includes a second storage, a second display section, and a second input section. The second storage stores therein operation manual information indicating an operation manual for the image forming apparatus. The second display section displays the operation manual in accordance with the operation manual information. The second display section displays the operation flow in accordance with the operation flow information when an execution button on the operation manual displayed on the second display section is operated through the second input section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Suguru Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11659109
    Abstract: An image scanner includes a display unit configured to display a UI screen, an authentication unit configured to authenticate a user based on an identification information of the user, a display control unit configured to control display, a setting unit configured to set functions of the image scanner according to setting information selected on the UI screen in a state in which the user is successfully authenticated, and a storage unit configured to store a database in which the identification information, at least one of the functions, and the setting information are registered in association with each other, in which the display control unit acquires the setting information from the database corresponding to the identification information and the functions displayed to the UI screen when the identification medium is read corresponds, and causes the display unit to display the acquired setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Takase
  • Patent number: 11656813
    Abstract: A printing system includes: a conveyance controller configured to control a conveyor, the conveyor being configured to convey paper having a printing surface in which label portions are formed at predetermined intervals; a sensor configured to irradiate light on the paper conveyed by the conveyor to detect reflected light of the irradiated light; a detector configured to detect an output of the sensor; a moving average calculator configured to calculate moving averages of voltage values based on the output of the sensor detected by the detector; and a determiner configured to determine that a portion between an adjacent pair of the label portions has been detected based on the moving averages of the voltage values calculated by the moving average calculator, and the output of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Yuichi Yoshigi
  • Patent number: 11635926
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to capturing an identifying characteristic of a printer, displaying a plurality of documents suitable for printing on the printer, receiving a selection of at least one document of the plurality of documents suitable for printing on the printer, and causing the selected at least one document to be delivered to the printer according to the identifying characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Yaze Wang, Derek M Nelson
  • Patent number: 11630623
    Abstract: A printing system is described. The printing system includes a memory to store print performance prediction logic and a processor to execute the print performance prediction logic to train a prediction model, receive print job metadata, receive configuration criteria of a printing system and predict first processing performance measurements of the printing system using the prediction model to simulate the printing system based on the print job metadata and the configuration criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Omar Ghalib Kahwaji, Ryan Blake Jackson