Patents Examined by Huo Long Chen
  • Patent number: 11169755
    Abstract: When providing a web page for receiving a setting to a mobile terminal, an image forming apparatus includes, in the web page, information storable as a custom setting in the terminal in a format such as a uniform resource locator (URL). The mobile terminal stores the provided information included in the web page as a custom setting so that the stored custom setting can be reused with ease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiro Mihira
  • Patent number: 11140276
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs operations. A mode is designated in repeat layout processing. A document area is detected by performing image analysis processing on a scanned image, and an inclination-corrected document image is acquired by performing extraction and inclination correction of a document image based on the detected document area. An initial repeat target area position is determined based on the acquired inclination-corrected document image and the designated mode, the inclination-corrected document image and a frame indicating the determined position are displayed, and a repeat target area designation screen is displayed to change a position of the frame indicating the repeat target area based on a user instruction. An output image is generated after the repeat layout processing by repeatedly laying out, in a designated sheet size, an image of the repeat target area determined based on the frame set on the repeat target area designation screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yutaro Kamata, Takashi Miyauchi, Naoki Ito
  • Patent number: 11132151
    Abstract: A communication device may send URL and first program to a terminal device, the URL indicating a storage location of update data stored in a first server, the update data being used for updating a setting data, the first program causing a browser program in the terminal device to perform a first process. The first process may include receiving the update data from the first server by using the URL and sending the update data received from the first server to the communication device. The communication device may receive the update data from the terminal device in response to sending the URL and the first program to the terminal device and update the setting data stored in the memory by using the update data received from the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Munehisa Matsuda, Yongyong Ren
  • Patent number: 11106955
    Abstract: A printer includes a print engine, a processor, and a memory. The print engine is configured to print an image on a print medium. The memory stores instructions, the instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the printer to perform: in a case where a plurality of layers is included in a document file that is acquired from one of a storage medium connected to the printer and an apparatus configured to communicate with the printer, determining whether the plurality of layers includes a selection target layer that is a layer corresponding to a same language as a language indicated by language information acquired from an information source; in response to determining that the plurality of layers includes the selection target layer, determining a layer including the selection target layer as a print target layer; and controlling the print engine to print the print target layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Itogawa
  • Patent number: 11102362
    Abstract: An example system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions that are executable to cause the system to perform various functions. The functions include, for each sample print of a plurality of sample prints, receiving respective color-measurement data indicative of color measurement patches printed on the sample print. The functions also include determining, using the respective color-measurement data for the sample prints, a respective color gamut volume for each sample print. Further, the functions include ordering the sample prints in order of increasing color gamut volume using the respective color gamut volumes for the sample prints. Still further, the functions include providing for display a presentation order for the sample prints, with the sample prints of the plurality of sample prints being arranged in order of increasing color gamut volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Michael M. Chang
  • Patent number: 11055586
    Abstract: A printing device determines whether a character string indicating argument corresponding to a first command has been registered as a registered virtual printer name, when an optional command of received print data includes the first command indicating a predetermined type of optional command and the character string indicating argument corresponding to the first command, generates a print job that prints the file data by using print settings associated with the registered virtual printer if the character string indicating argument corresponding to the first command has been registered as the virtual printer name, and generates a print job that analyzes the character string indicating argument corresponding to the first command and prints the file data by using the print settings specified based on the analyzed result if the character string indicating argument corresponding to the first command has not been registered as the virtual printer name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Haruki Sato
  • Patent number: 11057530
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a relay server, an image forming apparatus, and a plurality of content servers. The image forming apparatus requests the relay server to transmit a print content selected by a user. When receiving a transmission request of the print content transmitted from the image forming apparatus, the relay server acquires the print content from the content server of contents provider which provides the print content, and the relay server configures a print condition according to the type of the print content in accordance with a print condition table. The relay server transmits first data to the image forming apparatus. The first data includes the print content and a setting command corresponding to the print condition according to the type of the print content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kiyoto Motoyama
  • Patent number: 11010107
    Abstract: A procedure and installation of the same for the control of image processing devices using only the data required; thus, avoiding saturation of the memories of the components involved and/or the communications bandwidth. The procedure and installation are simple and reliable such as not to require the involvement of an expert user or a service staff member. The procedure includes the standardization of the data identifiers for each image processing device via the identification of the identifier containing a value for each data point and checking that the scale of each data point is equivalent to a predetermined scale. The installation includes a standardization system for such purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Inventor: Antonio Sanchez Navarro
  • Patent number: 10958810
    Abstract: A device link profile adjustment method of a computer carrying out a process of adjusting a device link table in a device link profile expressing a correspondence relationship between a first coordinate value of a first device-dependent color space and a second coordinate value of a second device-dependent color space, the method including: accepting an adjustment target at an adjustment point, using a coordinate in a profile connection space as a reference; and adjusting the device link table based on the adjustment target and a color conversion table including a device-independent coordinate value of the profile connection space of an original profile used to create the device link table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Fukasawa, Mitsuhiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10939005
    Abstract: An image reading device includes: a discharge guide including a discharge opening for discharging the sheet conveyed by the conveyance guide to the discharge tray, the discharge guide being configured to move from a third position to a fourth position according to the decrease in the number of the sheet to be supported by the supply tray, the fourth position being higher than the third position; a discharge roller configured to discharge the sheet through the discharge opening; and a first drive source which generates a first drive force for moving the discharge guide between the third position and the fourth position, wherein the first drive force is also used for rotating the discharge roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi Miwa
  • Patent number: 10938998
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a sensor, an output unit, and a controller. The sensor senses a person. The output unit outputs a notification sound. The controller controls a volume of the notification sound. The controller controls the output unit to reduce the volume of the notification sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya Nobutani, Masafumi Ono, Toru Suzuki, Manabu Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10880452
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an external apparatus, comprises: an obtainment unit that obtains information from an external apparatus; a determination unit that determines an operation mode of the information processing apparatus; and a notification unit that performs a notification based on the information obtained by the obtainment unit, wherein the notification unit, if the mode determined by the determination unit is a specific operation mode, performs the notification based on the information obtained by the obtainment unit in a second notification screen that is smaller than a first notification screen, and, if the mode determined by the determination unit is not the specific operation mode, performs the notification based on the information obtained by the obtainment unit in the first notification screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuyuki Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10863046
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a transport unit which transports a document, and reading units which read an image of the document which is transported. It is assumed that an operation of reading an image when specific setting information is not input to a control device of the image reading apparatus is set to a first reading mode, and an operation of reading an image when specific setting information is input to the control device is set to a second reading mode. In this case, in the second reading mode, image data of an image with a resolution which is equal to that in the first reading mode is generated, while causing the reading units to read an image from a document which is transported by the transport device at a lower speed than that in the first reading mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Koyanagi, Tokujiro Okuno
  • Patent number: 10863055
    Abstract: In a case where a setting of a function is changed from enabled to disabled, a printing apparatus stops transmission of a Bluetooth Low Energy packet in a format compatible with the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ritsuto Sako
  • Patent number: 10853008
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a computer program readable by a computer of a communication apparatus, the computer program causing the communication apparatus to: when first trigger information for establishing first wireless connection is received, supply a first connection instruction to a first wireless interface and store device information into a memory; when second trigger information is received, supply a second connection instruction to the first wireless interface; and in a specific case where it is not possible to re-establish first wireless connection with the external apparatus, display, on a display, display information for re-establishing the first wireless connection with the external apparatus. The display information includes first display information in case the device information is first device information, and second display information in case the device information is second device information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Nonoyama, Hirotaka Asakura
  • Patent number: 10785380
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer program for causing a terminal apparatus to perform a first display processing of displaying an execution instruction object, a reception processing of receiving status information from an image processing apparatus in response to detecting execution of a first operation on a position of the execution instruction object, a first determination processing of determining whether the image processing apparatus can execute an operation for image data on the basis of the received status information in response to detecting that the first operation on the position of the execution instruction object has changed to a second operation, and an execution instruction processing of transmitting execution instruction information for instructing execution of the operation to the image processing apparatus in response to it being determined in the first determination processing that the operation can be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo Yasui
  • Patent number: 10752029
    Abstract: A print data generation device includes a control unit that generates print data, and the control unit calculates a label length for a label to be printed on the basis of the first print data, acquires a maximum label length, generates first print data in a case in which a calculated label length, which is a label length that is calculated, does not exceed the maximum label length, and generates second print data, the label length of which is equivalent to the maximum label length, in a case in which the calculated label length exceeds the maximum label length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriaki Murayama
  • Patent number: 10757282
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a control portion, a stop processing portion, a resumption processing portion, and a notification processing portion. The control portion, to which power supply is stopped when an operation mode of the image forming apparatus is a power-saving mode, measures an elapsed time until when printed matter processed according to the print job is collected. The stop processing portion, when the operation mode shifts to the power-saving mode, stops measurement of the elapsed time before power supply to the control portion is stopped. The resumption processing portion, if the printed matter exists in the sheet discharge portion when the operation mode shifts to a normal mode, resumes measurement of the elapsed time by the control portion. The notification processing portion, when the time measured by the control portion reaches a predetermined first reference time, notifies that the printed matter has not been collected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10750047
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus receives a number of pages to be included in one file from a user, and reads an original. The image communication apparatus divides image data of the read original at each set of the received number of pages, and creates a file including the image data for each division of the divided image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Tonegawa
  • Patent number: 10708451
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking large deployments of managed devices in a facility are disclosed. A tracking system is embedded into the managed devices, which may include, for example, printers, copiers, scanners, and multi-function devices (MFD). Location information is generated and maintained using an external server, and when a deployment location check event is triggered, a user of the device is prompted to confirm its deployment location and/or update its location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Peter J. Zehler