Patents Examined by Henok Shiferaw
  • Patent number: 11089176
    Abstract: An image forming device and method for supporting multiple platforms are provided. The image forming device includes a communication device, a processor, a memory, and a user interface device. The processor may request an app server for a list of apps usable by the image forming device, and receive the list from the app server. The processor may determine a first app to be controlled in the list. The processor may obtain information of the second app that provides a same or similar service as a service provided by the first app based on information of the first app, and is supported by a second platform different from a first platform supporting the first app. The processor may perform an operation to control a state of the second app on the second platform based on an operation to control a state of the first app on the first platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Jung Hyeon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11086579
    Abstract: A server system includes a reception unit configured to receive a print job from an information processing apparatus, a holding unit configured to hold the received print job in association with user identification information indicating a user who is logged in to the information processing apparatus, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the held print job to an image forming apparatus. In a case where the reception unit receives a notification indicating a failure to execute the transmitted print job, the transmission unit notifies the information processing apparatus, to which the user identified by the user identification information is logged in, of the failure to execute the transmitted print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keisuke Morita
  • Patent number: 11082571
    Abstract: Provided is an input device comprising: a touch panel which receives an operation from a user; an external member having an external surface substantially the same as a surface of the touch panel; and a near field communication unit which is provided near the surrounding of the touch panel and inside of the external member and performs communication with an object to be detected which is brought close to a detection range, wherein a position corresponding to the near field communication unit of the external member projects from the touch panel and is inclined such that the side close to the touch panel is higher than the side distant from the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Nakayama, Ryoichi Kawasumi
  • Patent number: 11068216
    Abstract: A print data generating apparatus includes a machine learning unit that has a learned model which is obtained by inputting and conducting machine teaming of the relationships among data size of document data of a plurality of print jobs, print setting conditions, RIP setting conditions and printing speeds when the document data are printed by a printing unit; a printing speed predicting unit that predicts the printing speed of a print job to be printed by inputting the data size of the document data of the print job to be printed, the print setting conditions, and arbitrary RIP setting conditions into the learned model; and an optimized RIP setting condition determining unit that determines optimized RIP setting conditions that result in the printing speed which is predicted by the printing speed predicting unit approaching or becoming greater than or equal to a processing seed of the printing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiichiro Ishi
  • Patent number: 11064084
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of reducing execution time of a process for shifting the image forming apparatus from a normal operation mode to a low-power consumption operation mode. A sub interrupt controller 113 is connected to units and performs notification to a sub CPU in accordance with occurrence of a return trigger in any of the units. When shifting from the normal operation mode to the low-power consumption operation mode, a main CPU transmits mode instruction information indicative of the low-power consumption operation mode to the sub CPU. The sub CPU stores one or a plurality of units associated with the low-power consumption operation mode in advance, and sets one or a plurality of units in the sub interrupt controller, based on the mode instruction information and the plurality of units stored in association with the low-power consumption operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuji Obata
  • Patent number: 11061632
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable program instructions configured to, when executed, cause a processor to transmit, to a terminal device via a communication interface, screen data representing a screen including specific identification information specifying one or more printers and being configured to receive a change instruction to change one or more setting values for the one or more printers to a specific setting value, after receiving the change instruction via the communication interface, transmit a change request including the change instruction and the specific identification information via the communication interface, obtain execution status information including the specific identification information and success-failure information each piece of which represents whether a setting value for a corresponding printer has been changed to the specific setting value, and transmit, to the terminal device via the communication interface, screen data representing a screen in
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takashi Nishizaki
  • Patent number: 11061631
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus communicates with a server that includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a state of a consumable of the image forming apparatus, a transmission unit configured to transmit a notification based on the state of the consumable that is acquired by the acquisition unit, to the server, and a setting unit configured to make a setting as to whether to use a service that orders the consumable based on the state of the consumable, wherein if the service is enabled by the setting unit, the transmission unit transmits the notification based on the state of the consumable that is acquired by the acquisition unit, to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takashi Osuki
  • Patent number: 11057534
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a communication line configured to communicably connect the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate transmits predetermined information to the second substrate via the communication line, and the second substrate transmits a response to the predetermined information to the first substrate via the communication line. The information processing apparatus further includes a first notification unit configured to provide a notification of a reception result of the predetermined information transmitted from the first substrate, and a second notification unit configured to provide a notification of a reception result of the response to the predetermined information that is transmitted from the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidemi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11050900
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a remote operation executor, a support information manager, and a display controller. The remote operation executor executes remote operation that receives the operation support from an operator terminal. The support information manager obtains support information from a support information storage, the support information storage storing, as the support information, operation procedure data indicating a series of operation inputted at the operator terminal. The display controller displays on the display an operation procedure indicated by the operation procedure data included in the support information obtained by the support information manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Hara, Ken Saratani, Takushi Dandoko, Daigo Tashiro
  • Patent number: 11044375
    Abstract: Provided is a multifunctional apparatus including an external recording medium slot at a position higher than a touch area that receives touch operation by a user, and the touch area is provided in an operation panel provided on a near side of a main body of the multifunctional apparatus and near an upper edge of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Toizumi, Tohru Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11042338
    Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling printer redirection in virtual desktop environments that provides a font processing system including a session-based font cache subsystem. The system resolves any font mismatching issues that might arise in the context of printing on a virtual desktop from virtual desktop client devices in an optimized manner that reduces latency and generally improves performance during printer redirection. The session-based font cache is used to accelerate the font processing and to reduce the transmitted font data between the virtual desktop agent and the virtual desktop client in the context printer redirection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Hui Yuan, Weigang Huang, Hui Zhang, Mangui She, Kun Shi
  • Patent number: 11044377
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a remote operation executor, a support information manager, a display controller, a determiner, and an editor. The remote operation executor executes remote operation that receives the operation support from an operator terminal. The support information manager causes a support information storage to store operation procedure data as support information, the operation procedure data indicating a series of operations operated in accordance with the remote operation. The determiner determines whether the operation procedure data that the support information stored in the support information storage indicates is up to date. The editor, when the operation procedure data is not up to date, edits the operation procedure data stored in the support information storage to up to date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Hara, Ken Saratani, Takushi Dandoko, Daigo Tashiro
  • Patent number: 11039031
    Abstract: This information processing system (100) includes an information processing device (1) and a display input device (2). The display input device (2) receives settings of a first target, first processing, a second target, and second processing. The information processing device (1) takes, as a condition, the execution of the set first processing by using the set first target, and, when the condition is satisfied, generates a workflow (5) for executing the set second processing by using the set second target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Lianney Deleverio, Alexander Kenneth Go, Manuel Baricuatro, Jr., Gestoni Bacalso, Gervel Giva, Eliot Emerson Uy, Dennis Arriola, Joard Saquilon, Jelousy Saga
  • Patent number: 11025791
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to control an operation to determine a type of a printing medium to be printed by a printing unit, determine a type of printing medium indicated by information input by an input unit as the type of the printing medium to be printed, and be capable of executing a measurement mode and a designation mode. In the measurement mode, the type of the printing medium to be printed is determined by using a measurement result and a reference characteristic values set in advance. In the designation mode, the type of the printing medium to be printed is determined without using the measurement result. The information processing apparatus is configured to, even in the designation mode, change the reference characteristic value set in advance for the type of printing medium indicated by the information input by the input unit based on the measurement result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuki Igarashi, Takehiko Kasamatsu, Fumikazu Nishikawa, Yasushi Morimoto, Koji Suda, Keiko Harada
  • Patent number: 11023184
    Abstract: A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program causes a computer included in a portable terminal to communicate with an image forming device to execute: a) a step of acquiring communication information from the image forming device via first wireless communication, the communication information being information for executing second wireless communication; b) a step of executing processing of confirming existence of a user who possesses the portable terminal in the vicinity of the image forming device; and c) a step of, on condition that existence of the user in the vicinity of the image forming device is confirmed in the step b), permitting registration processing of registering the communication information in the portable terminal in order to execute the second wireless communication, the communication information being communication information for the second wireless communication with the image forming device and being acquired in the step a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenichi Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 11010109
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a reception section that receives print data including plural page images and receives data on what type the print data is for selecting attribute information with a degree of importance set for each attribute indicating a feature of the page image; an acquisition section that acquires the attribute information according to the type of the print data; a setting section that sets an evaluation value for each of the page images included in the print data by using the acquired attribute information; and a control section that performs a control to display previews of the page images according to the evaluation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD..
    Inventor: Takemichi Ushiro
  • Patent number: 10999457
    Abstract: A system may include a finishing device to receive a print job. The print job may move about a first axis of the finishing device. The system may further include a stapling device contained within the finishing device. The stapling device to move about a second axis of the finishing device, and the second axis may be perpendicular to the first axis. A sensor may be located on the stapling device to identify a first edge of the print job. The first edge of the print job may be a leading edge of the print job as the print job moves about the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Elliott Downing
  • Patent number: 10992830
    Abstract: An information processing terminal includes one or more processors configured to: display a plurality of input fields to which setting values for a process are to be input, the plurality of input fields being arranged side by side in a vertical direction of an operation screen; display a first object that receives an execution request operation for the process, the first object being provided at a lower right of the operation screen; cause the process to be performed based on the setting values in the plurality of input fields in response to the execution request operation for the process; display a second object that accepts a log display operation for the process, the second object being provided between the plurality of input fields and the first object; and display a log of the process in response to the log display operation for the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Rina Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10992831
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a plurality of programs each executing a predetermined process. The information processing system includes a memory that stores an application for executing a series of processes. The memory further stores use screen information. The information processing system further includes circuitry configured to: receive a display request for the use screen from an electronic device; transmit, to the electronic device, the use screen information defining the use screen requested by the received display request and the setting information for the application corresponding to the use screen information; receive, from the electronic device, a first acquisition request that includes a first item detail that is input to a first input item among the input items on the use screen; acquire, from the external service, list information; and transmit the acquired list information to the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Dongzhe Zhang
  • Patent number: 10986244
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a selecting unit that selects multiple applications from multiple applications that perform first processing of reading an image in a form corresponding to setting values that are set beforehand and that have to be set to execute each application, and perform second processing with regard to the read image, an executing unit that executes the selected multiple applications, and a controller that controls the executing unit to execute the first processing and the second processing by one application alone, and to not execute the first processing but to execute the second processing by another application with regard to the image read by the one application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuo Hayashi