Patents Examined by Henok Shiferaw
  • Patent number: 11399116
    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: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kiichi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11399106
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display unit that has a touch panel function, an operation reception unit that receives a user instruction based on a touch operation performed on the display unit, and a display control unit that, when plural list items are displayed in a display area of the display unit, controls the display unit such that, if the operation reception unit receives an instruction to scroll through the plural list items, the plural list items are scrolled in the display area and, if a user selects a certain list item from the plural list items, the selected certain list item is fixed at an end of the display area in a scrolling direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Masanori Satake
  • Patent number: 11397547
    Abstract: A job processing system provides a method capable of determining, for each job, an item a notification of which is to be issued as a quality of a resultant product which is obtained by executing a job from among a plurality of items concerning quality. The job processing system receives quality request data, identifies, based on the received quality request data, an item a notification of which is to be issued as a quality of a resultant product which is obtained by executing the job from among a plurality of items concerning quality, and issues a notification of a quality of the resultant product with respect to the identified item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takaaki Yano
  • Patent number: 11399117
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor is provided. The processor is to execute the instructions to perform processing for a login operation using a common account of a group of users to login a user of the group, obtain mapping information indicating a mapping of information related to the group in correspondence with the logged-in common account, and support a function of the image forming apparatus requested by the user of the group logged-in using the common account, based on the mapping information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Nam Heo
  • Patent number: 11394836
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program for relatively easily creating an album similar to an example album are provided. A page (74) of an example album is displayed in a page display region (70), and one example image (80) among images pasted on the page (74) is displayed in an example image display region (80). An image (I1) similar to the example image (80) is displayed in a selected image region (90). In a case where a decision button (91) is clicked, the image (I1) is pasted at a position at which the example image is pasted. Similarly, an album is created by finding images similar to example images (Ir101 to Ir104) and the like pasted in an image pasting region. The album similar to the example album is created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yukinori Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11388304
    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: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinichi Ono
  • Patent number: 11388293
    Abstract: A scanning system includes an image scanner, an information processing terminal, and a server interconnected via a network. The information processing terminal includes a terminal-side controller to configure setting information according to an operation received via a terminal-side input interface and transmit the setting information to the server along with identification information for identifying the information processing terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Shiotani
  • Patent number: 11381701
    Abstract: A printing apparatus supporting USB type-C includes: a USB type-C interface configured to support a connection with an external device; a printing unit configured to perform printing; and a controller configured to control the supply of power to the external device. The controller checks a reception power received from an external power source, predicts the estimated power consumption of at least one of the printing apparatus and the external device, determines a supply power to be transmitted to the external device based on the reception power and the estimated power consumption, and transmits the supply power to the external device via the USB type-C interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: BIXOLON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Hwan Kwak, Dong Woo Kim, Junho Hwang, Gihwan Ahn
  • Patent number: 11360725
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a print engine, a communication interface, a memory, and a controller configured to receive a print job via the communication interface, acquire authentication information associated with the print job, perform authentication based on the acquired authentication information, and determine whether the authentication is successful, when determining that the authentication is successful, cause the print engine to print, on a sheet, an image based on the print job, and regardless of whether the authentication is successful, transmit predetermined image data based on the print job via the communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuichiro Sakuragi
  • Patent number: 11360719
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an image selection receiving unit, a change receiving unit, and a control unit. The image selection receiving unit receives selection of an image to be registered in a system that executes an image output process. The change receiving unit receives a change in setting related to output of the image which is selected via the image selection receiving unit. The control unit controls the change receiving unit such that, in a case where only one image is selected using the image selection receiving unit, the change receiving unit receives the change in setting related to output of the selected image, and such that, in a case where plural images are selected using the image selection receiving unit, the change receiving unit does not receive the change in setting related to output of the plural selected images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kana Shiratori
  • Patent number: 11354075
    Abstract: Provided are a non-transitory computer-readable medium, a print image control device, and a control method of the print image control device capable of reducing time required for an operation to adjust a position of a print image, and of improving productivity. A CPU performs part specification command input processing in which a command is input to specify a part of a photographic image captured by a camera, characteristic identification processing that identifies a characteristic of fabric on the basis of the command input by the part specification command input processing, generated graphic generation processing that generates a generated graphic relating to the characteristic identified by the characteristic identification processing, and display control processing that controls a display such that the generated graphic generated by the generated graphic generation processing is displayed along with the photographic image and a print image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chisato Inoue, Takeshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11347458
    Abstract: An image forming device, which is an electronic device, includes an AI processor that is hardware, an AI processor operating unit that operates the AI processor and an AI processor control service that controls the AI processor exclusively via an interface provided by the AI processor operating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Kazuki Dozen
  • Patent number: 11350014
    Abstract: A communication system includes a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus that communicates with the transmitting apparatus over a telephone line. The transmitting apparatus includes a first facsimile transmitting section, a first voice-information transmitting section that transmits first voice information that is voice information on a first user, and a first control section. The receiving apparatus includes a second facsimile receiving section, a second voice-information communication section that receives the first voice information, and a second control section. The second control section permits or rejects reception of the image information from the transmitting apparatus via the second facsimile receiving section based on a result of authentication of the first user performed based on the received first voice information and second voice information on a user who is permitted in advance to use the receiving apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi Furuwata
  • Patent number: 11340851
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media for characterizing print volume information for a printing asset are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: query a first computer-readable medium having stored thereon a first print volume data; query a second computer-readable medium having stored thereon a second print volume data; perform a statistical analysis based at least on the first and second print volume data to generate a print volume statistic; code a print volume classification for storage on a data storage device; and store the print volume classification on the data storage device such that the print volume classification is accessible via a structured query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Oleg Y. Zakharov
  • Patent number: 11340852
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses methods and systems for keyword-based printing. The method includes receiving a request for printing a document from a user. Upon receiving the request, a user interface including a keyword-based printing option is provided to the user. The keyword-based printing option allows the user to input one or more keywords. Based on the one or more input keywords, one or more pages from the document having the one or more matching keywords are identified. The pages identified to include the one or more keywords are excluded and the remaining pages of the document are printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Srinivasarao Bindana, Dara N Lubin
  • Patent number: 11334303
    Abstract: A method for printing a variable data document includes receiving the variable data document which has a specified or estimated repeat length L; receiving or selecting a designated queue size (DQS) and a parameter Q representing a number of repeated pages to be provided in a chunk; arranging at least a portion of the variable data document into at least one cycle of chunks for processing using raster image processors (RIPs), wherein each of the at least one cycle of chunks contains R chunks and each chunk of a first cycle of the at least one cycle of chunks has a size C determined using DQS, Q, and L; and processing, using the RIPs, the portion of the variable data document into rasters for printing by providing at least one chunk of the at least one cycle of chunks to each of the RIPs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: GLOBAL GRAPHICS SOFTWARE LIMITED
    Inventors: Angus Duggan, Martin Bailey
  • Patent number: 11336778
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a first communication portion for communicating with a portable terminal through near field wireless communication by using a first communication type in response to holding of the portable terminal thereover, a second communication portion, capable of communicating with the portable terminal on the basis of communication with the portable terminal by using the first communication type, for carrying out wireless communication with the portable terminal by using a second communication type broader in communication range than the first communication type, and a sound generating portion for generating a notification sound for notifying that communication between the portable terminal and the second communication portion is enabled in response to enablement of the communication between the portable terminal and the second communication portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takuya Uemura
  • Patent number: 11336783
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first controller, a selection section, and a second controller. The first controller performs control in which a second operation screen is displayed on a terminal apparatus that is connected to the image forming apparatus in a manner communication is possible, the second operation screen being generated on the basis of a first operation screen of the image forming apparatus. The selection section selects either one of a first mode and a second mode, the first mode being a mode in which an operation from the first operation screen is acceptable, the second mode being a mode in which remote control from the second operation screen is acceptable. The second controller performs control in which, if the second mode is selected by the selection section, a display state of the second operation screen is prohibited from being changed in accordance with an operation occurred in the image forming apparatus other than an operation from the second operation screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Tomoaki Saito
  • Patent number: 11330133
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry acquires, from an external server, information related to software that is downloadable on the electronic apparatus through a network and installable on the electronic apparatus. The circuitry determines whether at least conditions of authentication settings with respect to the electronic apparatus are satisfied. The circuitry displays, on a display, a notification screen for notifying the acquired information, according to a determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Taku Ikawa, Hiroatsu Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 11330131
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a management unit configured to manage a shortcut in association with one or more pieces of card information and a control unit configured to execute display control on a display, wherein, when first card information and second card information are managed in association with a first shortcut, the control unit executes control on a screen for the function corresponding to the first shortcut to display in a state where the corresponding group of setting values is applied to the function even if either one of the first card information and the second card information is read. Further, the number of pieces of card information that can be associated with the shortcut has an upper limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Nishiyama