Patents Examined by Henok Shiferaw
  • Patent number: 11516353
    Abstract: A reading apparatus comprises: an upload unit that uploads to a server a scanned file; and a display control unit that obtains an access code which is generated and for accessing an upload destination of the scanned file and displays the generated access code on a display unit. A portable terminal comprises: a reading unit that reads the displayed access code; an access unit that obtains information indicating an upload destination of the scanned file based on the reading and, using the obtained information, accesses the upload destination; and a download unit that downloads the scanned file from the upload destination. The information indicating the upload destination of the scanned file includes authentication information related to an access of the upload destination of the scanned file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Hanano
  • Patent number: 11514705
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is used in contact with a user and includes a processor. In a case where multiple objects as candidates for operation are present in an object image taken by a camera or an object image acquired externally, the processor is configured to detect one or more of the objects present at a center position of the object image as the candidates for operation or detect one or more of the objects superposed on a user image of a part of a body of the user operating the information processing apparatus as the candidates for operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 11500596
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire resource information concerning a remaining amount of a consumable from an image output apparatus; a generation unit configured to generate notification information indicating a quantity or amount of the consumable based on the resource information acquired from the image output apparatus; and a notification unit configured to make a notification of the notification information generated by the generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires the resource information of a plurality of types of consumables from each of a first image output apparatus and a second image output apparatus. The generation unit generates the corresponding notification information for each of the plurality of types based on the acquired resource information. The notification unit makes a notification of the notification information for each of the plurality of types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11494143
    Abstract: An image forming device that collects usage data regarding the usage status of a user and sends the usage data to a server, the image forming device includes: a first hardware processor that receives a print job; a printer that performs printing based on the print job; a second hardware processor that determines whether or not a user who sent the print job is a target user of consent confirmation processing regarding collection of the usage data; a display that displays various display screens; and a third hardware processor that pauses printing based on the print job and performs the consent confirmation processing to cause the display to display a consent confirmation screen, when the second hardware processor determines that the user is a target user of the consent confirmation processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Tsumoru Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11477332
    Abstract: To enable a user to more easily set a rule relating to folder allocation and file naming at the time of filing data, such as a document scanned image and a received facsimile, and storing the file. On a user interface screen for setting a rule relating to property information that is used at the time of allocating a file to a folder for storage, at least a first area for editing the rule and a second area displaying an item a user can select are provided. The item is a unit element for a user to set a character string configuring the property information and corresponds to a character string of an arbitrary attribute a user can set. Then, the rule is created by the item selected by a user from the second area being arranged at a position designated by the user in the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ken Tokita
  • Patent number: 11474759
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a printing engine, memory to store information indicating correspondences of a plurality of file types and uniform resource identifier (URI) addresses of rendering subjects to render printing data of each file type of the plurality of file types in correspondence to each of a plurality of external apparatuses, a communication device to receive a file by a direct printing function method from an external apparatus, and a processor to identify the type of the received file, determine a URI address corresponding to the identified file type and the external apparatus, according to the information indicating correspondences, control the communication device to transmit the received file to the determined URI address, and receive, from the determined URI address, rendered data corresponding to the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Aleksei Mulin, Chang-Soo Park, Gi Won Seo
  • Patent number: 11470209
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus to execute a specifying step for specifying a change target for a common page contained in album data for a first subject containing the common page and an individual page for the first subject based at least on parameters related to the first subject, and specifying a change target for the common page contained in album data for a second subject containing the common page and an individual page for the second subject based at least on parameters related to the second subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jumpei Takeichi, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Takayuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11470223
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, in a case where data to be transmitted includes one or more information items to be protected, present in an operation screen regarding data transmission an image indicating inclusion of the one or more information items to be protected, terminate presentation of the image in response to the one or more information items to be protected being excluded by a user operation, and in response to a transmission operation to transmit the data, present a warning if the transmission operation is performed while the image is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Ken Naoe
  • Patent number: 11470210
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display section and a display control section. The display control section displays a list of application programs in a shortcut menu in the case where a user performs a specific screen operation on a desired screen displayed on the display section, the application programs having user notification information at the time of the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Masahiro Tose
  • Patent number: 11461056
    Abstract: A printing device that can print a print image at a planned printing position even without a user accurately aligning the printing device with the planned printing position is provided. The printing device automatically adjusts a printing position, based on scanned data obtained by scanning a medium via a medium scanning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11457112
    Abstract: An information processing terminal capable of communicating with a server, the information processing terminal including: a request unit configured to request a server to acquire first information that have been displayed on a display screen of a printer capable of communicating with the server; an acquisition unit configured to acquire the first information from the server based on a request from the request unit; and a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display the first information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Saito
  • Patent number: 11455130
    Abstract: A method of color mapping color values of an oligochromatic pattern comprising the following steps: determining an image-gamut, in a N-dimensional device independent color system (ND-DICS), of said oligochromatic pattern; wherein said image-gamut comprises said color values of said oligochromatic pattern; and determining a skeleton (500) of said image-gamut; and performing an adaption on said skeleton (500) in said ND-DICS by a set of N-dimensional-transforming steps (30) and determining for points of said skeleton (500), a path in said ND-DICS that corresponds to said adaption; and color mapping said color values, of said oligochromatic pattern, based on said determined paths (35) of said points of said skeleton (500).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventor: Marc Mahy
  • Patent number: 11457115
    Abstract: A multifunction peripheral (MFP), which successively conveys a plurality of documents stacked on a document tray and reads the document, determines whether there is a difference among sizes of the plurality of documents in response to at least one of the documents being read by a scanner, in a case where a preview operation of a read image is performed, notifies a user of a possibility that documents having different sizes are mixed and read based on a result of the determination, enables a function of performing reading corresponding to respective document size of mixed size documents in which documents having different sizes are mixed, and provides navigation for prompting re-reading of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11445089
    Abstract: An image file is prepared for printing. The image file is received. The image file includes a cell having pixels. A pixel of the pixels of the cell corresponds with a command to apply a print substance to a medium. For the pixel, the command to apply the print substance is selectively replaced with a command to not apply the print substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Morgan T. Schramm, Wesley R. Schalk, Ranjit Bhaskar
  • Patent number: 11445075
    Abstract: In a display system including a communication device including a communication function, a display device, and a terminal device, the display system includes an acquirer that acquires communication data via the communication device, a display that displays information based on the received communication data on the display device, and a notifier that notifies the terminal device that the communication data has been received. When an operation corresponding to the notification is performed on the terminal device, the display further displays that the operation corresponding to the notification is performed as information relating to the communication data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masafumi Okigami
  • Patent number: 11438468
    Abstract: An apparatus management system, a remote management apparatus, and a remote management method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Aoki
  • Patent number: 11416192
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a wireless communication section configured to perform wireless communication, a storing section configured to store identification information of a terminal device to which the wireless communication section has an achievement of connection through a network, and a processing section configured to perform communication control for the wireless communication section. The processing section performs searching processing for external access points, performs second searching processing for searching for the terminal device corresponding to the identification information stored in the storing section in a network formed by the external access points found by the searching processing, and causes the wireless communication section to connect to the external access point to which the terminal device found by the second searching processing is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 11416186
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an operating part configured to form an image, a detection unit configured to detect a status of the operating part to generate sequential data which is updated sequentially, a determination unit configured to determine whether the sequential data satisfies a predetermined condition or not, a storage unit configured to store the number of times of determination of whether the sequential data satisfies the predetermined condition or not, a preprocessing unit, and an accumulation unit. The preprocessing unit is configured to generate data, having a data size smaller than that of the sequential data, to be used for predicting a state of the operating part. Further, the accumulation unit is configured to accumulate the data based on the sequential data which is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mizuho Ueshima
  • Patent number: 11403048
    Abstract: Provided is a personal computer which is communicatively coupled to a printer, the personal computer including: an OS that has a display function of displaying a standard print setting screen, and a print function; a server section that causes the printer to be recognized by the print function of the OS, acquires standard print data (DPN) output by the print function of the OS, converts the standard print data into custom print data, and transmits the custom print data to the printer; and a custom print setting section that, when a setting for the standard print setting screen is selected, displays a second print setting screen, and that, when a custom setting value of a custom setting item is set, transmits the custom setting value to the printer, in which the server section generates the custom print data based on the custom setting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoki Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 11405516
    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: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Nakayama, Ryoichi Kawasumi