Patents Examined by Iriana Cruz
  • Patent number: 11489982
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a printer includes a printer unit configured to print images on paper, a connector connectable to a detachable storage medium, and a controller. The controller is configured to acquire time information from the storage medium when the storage medium is connected to connector, and then store output information in the storage medium. The output information includes device information related to a print function of the printer unit and the acquired timing information in association with each other. The printer may lack an internal clock yet still output information associated with time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ken Masuda
  • Patent number: 11487489
    Abstract: A print instruction device includes: a communicator that communicates with plural printers, each of which has a function as a parent machine storing print data and a function as a child machine acquiring and printing the print data; a print data sending processor that sends the print data to be stored in the parent machine; a print completion reception processor that receives print completion information from the child machine; a print history manager that updates print-related history on the basis of the received print completion information; and a parent machine setting device that specifies a most frequently used printer on the basis of the updated history when sending the print data, switches the parent machine to a specified printer, and causes the switched parent machine to send the print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Ataka
  • Patent number: 11487486
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores instructions. The instructions cause the information processing apparatus to perform operations. The operations including: displaying a preview screen that indicates a print media having a certain width in a first direction; receiving a first input for designating a first object, the first object having a first object width in the first direction; disposing the first object in the preview screen; receiving a second input for designating a second object, the second object having a second object width in the first direction; comparing the second object width with a difference between the certain width and the first object width; in response to the comparing, modifying each of the first object and the second object such that sum of the first object width and the second object width corresponds to the certain width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryoji Ban, Satoki Nagao, Jun Komura
  • Patent number: 11475260
    Abstract: A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes at least one physical memory device to store ink model logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the ink model logic to generate first ink model parameter data for a first print medium based on first ink deposition data for a second print medium and first optical density measurement data for the first print medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Nikita Gurudath, Pallavi Premkumar, Ziling Zhang, Burke Larsen
  • Patent number: 11474764
    Abstract: A management system capable of managing an apparatus with high accuracy at low cost without deteriorating productivity. The management system includes an image forming apparatus and a management apparatus that are communicatively connected. The image forming apparatus includes an obtainment unit that obtains data for items to which priorities are given, a first storage unit that stores the data, a transmission unit that transmits the data to the management apparatus, and an update unit that updates the priorities of the items according to a notification from the management apparatus. The management apparatus includes a second storage unit that stores data from the image forming apparatus, a determination unit that determines whether interpolation of defective data is possible for the items, a change unit that changes the priorities of the items according to possibility of the interpolation, and a notification unit that notifies of the priorities of the changed items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11468498
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is configured to receive the message window data from the ordering server apparatus, store the message window data in the nonvolatile storage device, display the message window on the display device, detect a request to minimize the message window input via the input device, and then display a minimized GUI on the display device, and detect a request to maximize the minimized GUI input via the input device when the minimized GUI is displayed on the display device, and then read the message window data from the nonvolatile storage device and display the message window on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11445076
    Abstract: A user can register a job execution button with frequently used settings reflected therein to a menu screen. However, the registration requires the user to perform a predetermined operation, which takes time and effort of the user. Thus, if the same setting change is made to a button a predetermined number of times or more, a button with the setting change reflected therein is newly generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Taiki Sumi
  • Patent number: 11438472
    Abstract: A display device includes a display window, a light guide member, a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element. The display window is provided in a housing and is formed in a slit shape extending in a predetermined direction from one end side to the other end side. Thea light guide member is disposed in the display window. The first light emitting element faces one end portion of the light guide member on the one end side. The second light emitting element faces the other end portion of the light guide member on the other end side. A display area of the light guide member is exposed through the display window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Okauchi
  • Patent number: 11422759
    Abstract: System and methods for page alignment for tractorless paper. In one embodiment, an apparatus receives a print job to be printed on a continuous web of print media in a duplex format with multiple first pages across a front of the web and multiple second pages across a back of the web which correspond with the multiple first pages. The apparatus maps pages to sheetlet regions, and applies first offsets to the sheetlet regions on the front of the virtual continuous forms based on operator input. The controller also determines second offsets for the sheetlet regions on the back of the virtual continuous forms based on an additive inverse of the first offsets, and modifies processing of the print job by applying the second offsets to the sheetlet region on the back of the virtual continuous forms to maintain alignment of front pages and back pages across the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Rose Nemeth, Kenneth Stuart Shouldice, John F. Meixel
  • Patent number: 11423270
    Abstract: A printed matter processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires image data of an environment in which a printed matter is set, a display unit, and a processor configured to, by executing a program, input the image data acquired by the acquisition unit, display how the printed matter is seen in a case where the printed matter is set in the environment on the display unit, by a composited image in which the printed matter is composited in the image data in accordance with a printing condition of the printed matter, and decide the printing condition of the printed matter by changing and displaying the printing condition of the printed matter in accordance with a user operation, and output the printing condition of the printed matter without outputting the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Maiko Kabu, Hideki Sugiura
  • Patent number: 11423269
    Abstract: A printing apparatus for printing on a front surface of a printing medium, and thereafter printing on a back surface of the printing medium. The apparatus includes the following elements: a front surface print head for printing a front surface image based on front surface image data, over a surface page length on the front surface of the printing medium; a back surface print head for printing a back surface image based on back surface image data, on the back surface of the printing medium; a data corrector for creating corrected front surface image data by correcting an image size of the front surface image data based on elasticity information in the transport direction; and a printing controller for causing printing based on the corrected front surface image data, and controlling the back surface print head to perform printing on the back surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Takahashi, Asuka Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 11425279
    Abstract: An information processing device not connected to a communication line includes a processor configured to measure an accumulated number of execution counts for specific processing repeatedly performed by an application, and perform control so that after the accumulated number of execution counts reaches an allowable number, the application is not started up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kota Matsuo, Yusuke Izumisawa, Mami Yokohashi
  • Patent number: 11422763
    Abstract: A printing management apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire an order quantity being a quantity of paper required for printing, acquire a stock quantity for each attribute of paper, the stock quantity being a quantity of paper having at least one or more attributes in common with attributes of the paper which is required for the printing and is in stock by a printer, and, when the order quantity is greater than the stock quantity and a sum of at least two stock quantities is equal to or greater than the order quantity, display the printer as a printer capable of accepting an order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kenji Miyata, Takashi Morimura, Takuma Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11409484
    Abstract: A system including a server and a terminal device controls a specific printer. The server includes an input acquisition unit that acquires input data generated based on sound data indicating voice by an utterer and transmitted from a voice input device to which the voice is input, and a print instruction output unit that outputs print instruction data indicating an instruction relating to a print job to be executed by the specific printer, by using the input data. The terminal device includes a print instruction receiving unit that receives the print instruction data transmitted from the server via a first communication interface, a print job generation unit that generates print job data indicating a print job to be executed by the specific printer, by using the print instruction data, and a print job transmission unit that transmits the print job data to the specific printer via a second communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 11410006
    Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus that forms an image with a plurality of coloring materials on a recording medium, and the image forming apparatus includes: a hardware processor that calculates a chromaticity range having a color difference not less than a setting value to respective chromaticities of the plurality of coloring materials for use in formation of the image, as a base color range common between the plurality of coloring materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yorihiro Yamaya
  • Patent number: 11405515
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming part, a main board, a casing and a user interface part. The image forming part forms an image on the sheet. On the main board, which a control circuit for controlling the image forming part is formed. The image forming part and the main board are stored in the casing. The user interface part includes at least one of operation member which receives an operation and a display member which displays a state of the image forming part, and is mounted on a circuit formed surface of the main board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Harada
  • Patent number: 11388299
    Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium stores a plurality of instructions readable by a computer of an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus comprises a display, an operation unit, and a communication interface. The information processing apparatus stores a first execution program and a second execution program. The information processing apparatus displays a setting screen including a first particular setting capable of being designated in scan processing executed by the first execution program and incapable of being designated in scan processing executed by the second execution program, and determines to adopt the first execution program as the execution program that executes the scan processing in a case where the first particular setting is designated on the setting screen by an operation to the operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Aiko Mizutani
  • Patent number: 11375083
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for the sending, delivery and receiving of faxes are disclosed herein. In particular, certain embodiments include a fax connector that may be deployed at a user's site, and a faxing system that may be deployed remotely from the user's site. The fax connector can be accessed at the user's site over a computer based network in order to perform functions associated with faxing, including sending, receiving and obtaining status on faxes. The fax connector deployed at the user's site communicates with the remotely deployed faxing system to send, receive, obtain status on, or perform other functions associated with, faxing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventors: Treber Rebert, Jonathan Isabelle, Michael Riedel
  • Patent number: 11372599
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: in accordance with log information on printing performed on a document by a printer, subtract a number of billing units responsive to printing of the document from a number of billing units held by the printer; and if the printer having printed a document as a print target produced by a producer and corresponding to a substitute document prints the substitute document in accordance with the log information and correspondence information indicating a correspondence relation between the document as the print target and the substitute document substituting for the document, not subtract a number of billing units responsive to printing of the substitute document from the number of billing units held by the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kenki Matsui
  • Patent number: 11366620
    Abstract: A color management system for a printing system includes a fleet color management service that manages color calibration for printing devices. Calibration target print jobs are sent to the printing devices within a group. The calibration target print jobs are measured to capture color printing data. The measured data is uploaded to the fleet color management service, which determines color printing parameters for the group, including an aggregate maximum end point target. The fleet color management service generates a tone reproduction curve for all of the printing devices based on the color printing parameters. Validation of the color printing capabilities are performed using a validation set of the printing devices to determine the validation set printing devices can meet the aggregate maximum end point target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Javier A. Morales