Patents Examined by Iriana Cruz
  • Control method, image processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
    Patent number: 11163503
    Abstract: A method for controlling an image processing apparatus including specifying one or a plurality of pieces of image data; generating a new template based on a feature of the specified one or plurality of pieces of image data, the generated new template including at least one or a plurality of slots for which the specified one or plurality of pieces of image data are laid out; and generating a layout image by laying out the specified one or plurality of pieces of image data to the one or plurality of slots included in the generated new template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Mizuki Hayakawa, Takayuki Yamada, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Shinjiro Hori
  • Image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 11159690
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first ejection destination to which a recording medium is ejected, and a second ejection destination disposed at a position which is less visually recognized from a surrounding user than the first ejection destination; a memory; and a processor configured to perform control to turn on a first light emitting unit disposed at a position where a visually recognizable range from surroundings is wider than the second ejection destination, in a case where a recording medium ejected to the second ejection destination is left.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroki Michifuji, Ayana Nomura
  • Terminal device, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing display control program, and display control method
    Patent number: 11146698
    Abstract: A terminal device includes: a display unit configured to take a plurality of forms including a folded form in which the display unit is bent between a first display region and a second display region and an extended form in which the display unit is not bent between the first display region and the second display region; and a display control unit that controls display performed by the display unit. The display control unit causes a first image corresponding to an obverse side to be displayed in the first display region and causes a second image corresponding to a reverse side to be displayed in the second display region, when the display unit is in the folded form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Kuramoto, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Action tags for multi-function devices to build a job
    Patent number: 11140283
    Abstract: A method for executing a job on a multi-function device (MFD) is disclosed. For example, the method is executed by a processor and includes receiving a selection of a workflow template, receiving a selection of an action tag to add to the workflow template, scanning a document, and executing the job on the document via the workflow template that includes the action tag that was selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Cheryl A. Nazzaro, Sanja Pstrocki-Porras, Dianne Colelli
  • Image forming apparatus and computer-readable non-temporary recording medium that stores image forming program
    Patent number: 11137963
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus for accepting print jobs, determining the execution order of received jobs, and executing the jobs in the determined order manages an unspecified job priority as the execution priority of an unspecified job for which a value that affects the order of execution is not specified. The image forming apparatus can accept a priority-specified job for which an execution priority is specified and an unspecified job. The image forming apparatus determines the order of execution of this priority-specified job on the basis of the priority specified in the priority-specified job, and determines the order of execution of the unspecified job on the basis of the unspecified job priority, and can accept a specification of the unspecified job priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Murakami
  • Printing using fiducial marks
    Patent number: 11113010
    Abstract: Examples herein provide a method, which includes printing an image and fiducial marks on a first side of a print medium. The fiducial marks include first marks ahead of the image, wherein two of the first marks are end marks at a first distance from respective opposite edges of the print medium, and each first mark has a first length and is located at a second distance from a beginning edge of the image. The fiducial marks also include second marks along a length of the print medium, wherein each second mark is at the first distance from the respective opposite edges, has a second length smaller than the first length, and is at a third distance from another second mark. The method includes scanning the fiducial marks and printing a registered mirrored copy of the image on the second side of the print medium using the scanned fiducial marks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xavier Domingo, Li Qian, Secundino Vicente Vicente
  • Automated template generation for tiling
    Patent number: 11106410
    Abstract: Methods relating generally to printing to a medium with a printer are disclosed. In one such method, a plurality of objects (“the objects”) for a tile is received. An object count for each object type of the objects is counted. A tile-reuse count is initialized. A tile object associated with the objects is generated. Tile area data for the tile, tiling area data for a tiling area, and bounding region data for a bounding region are received. A check is performed for the tile area data having at least one dimension exceeding a corresponding bounding region dimension of the bounding region data. It is determined that the tiling area data does have at least one dimension exceeding the bounding region dimension. Responsive to the determining the tiling area data does have at least one dimension exceeding the bounding region dimension, a template for the tile is generated for non-overlapping tiling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Xuqiang Bai
  • Template generation for tiling for appearance of overlap
    Patent number: 11106404
    Abstract: Method and system relating generally to tiling for appearance of overlap is disclosed. In such a method, a tile template is received. A subset of a tiling area is initialized as a bounding region. A bounding region subset of the tiling area is initialized. One or more first dimensional components of the tile template are determined to exceed one or more corresponding second dimensional components of the bounding region. A bounded tile template is generated for the tile template with third dimensional components having the one or more corresponding second dimensional components to avoid the overlap though with the appearance of overlapping instances of the tile template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Xuqiang Bai
  • Display device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program
    Patent number: 11102363
    Abstract: An image selection function of a printer determines permission areas in which superimposition of an object is allowed, and selects a target image from among receptive images in which the object can be fitted in the determined permission areas, among a plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yo Kawano
  • Information processing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 11086575
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first application running unit, a first function execution unit, a second application running unit, and a second function execution unit. The first application running unit operates in an execution environment and runs an application program. The first function execution unit operates in the execution environment and provides a specific function after the first function execution unit is called by the first application running unit. The second application running unit operates in a different execution environment different from the execution environment and runs a different application program different from the application program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kazunori Ozeki
  • Print in a user defined print area of a print media
    Patent number: 11079978
    Abstract: The subject matter discloses examples of a print interface manager. The print interface manager comprises a print area selection engine to receive a user instruction for printing print data on 5 a user defined print area of a print media. In response to the user instruction for printing print data, the print interface manager obtains a print area input defining the print area, wherein the print area input indicates a matrix block corresponding to user defined print area of the print media. The print 10 interface manager further provides the print area input to a print unit to print the print data in the user defined print area of the print media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Devi Vellingiri, Binod Kumar, Raghavendra T
  • Printing system, printing method, image forming apparatus and method for controlling the same, and computer-readable medium
    Patent number: 11079989
    Abstract: A printing system includes a terminal device, an image forming apparatus, and a server. The terminal device makes an inquiry to the image forming apparatus, receives information for specifying the server as a designation of print data, and sends print data to the server specified by the received information. The image forming apparatus causes the image forming apparatus to transmit the information for specifying the server as a designation of print data to be transmitted from the terminal device in a response to the received inquiry, acquires the print data the terminal device has transmitted to the specified server from the specified server, and executes a printing process based on the acquired print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinya Suzuki
  • Image forming apparatus, method of controlling image forming apparatus, and recording medium
    Patent number: 11064079
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a microphone that detects a voice; an executing device that executes a job; and a hardware processor that controls switching of a position of voice detection by the microphone, depending on the job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Yamaguchi
  • Image forming apparatus and image forming method
    Patent number: 11050901
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a heater, first control circuitry, second control circuitry, and a detector. The heater is configured to heat an inside of the apparatus. The first control circuitry is configured to cause the apparatus to be in a standby state, a sleep state having smaller power consumption than the standby state, or a deep sleep state having smaller power consumption than the sleep state. The second control circuitry is configured to control an operation of the heater. The detector is configured to detect humidity of the inside of the apparatus. The first control circuitry causes the apparatus in the deep sleep state to periodically and temporarily return to the sleep state, and the second control circuitry operates the heater according to the humidity detected by the detector in the sleep state to which the apparatus has returned from the deep sleep state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshimasa Aoki
  • Image forming apparatus and control method for image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 11036444
    Abstract: In the image forming apparatus, a storage medium stores print data (check data) of a received print job that has been completed. When a communication circuit receives print data, a controller, by using the check data, decides whether or not a received print job which is going to be executed based on the received print data is a reprint job for redoing printing. Upon deciding as the reprint job, the controller instructs the operation panel to display difference part of print contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Koji Kuroda
  • Image processing apparatus
    Patent number: 11032439
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a memory configured to store a scanned image obtained by scanning a document placement area, and a processor configured to detect an image of each original document from the scanned image, specify a placement state of each original document, and generate data in a data format corresponding to the placement state of each original document in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiro Moro
  • Method to create a secure distributed data validation system using a distributed storage system and artificial intelligence
    Patent number: 11032437
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for validating paper forms are provided. A node can receive paper-form data from a paper form that has first and second data items (DIs). The node can: determine first and second metadata for the first and second DIs respectively, determine respective first and second validation entities (VEs) to validate respective values of the first and second DIs based on the respective first and second metadata, where the first and second VEs can differ, provide a user interface (UI) including a display of the first DI, receive a validation status for the first DI via the first UI from the first VE, select a first distributed storage system (DSS) associated with the first DI, and record the value of the first DI and the validation status in the first DSS. The node can generate an output related to the paper-form data based on the first DSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Allan Sahagun
  • Technologies for positioning designs on virtual surfaces associated with product customization
    Patent number: 11029895
    Abstract: Systems and methods for placing visual content on a virtual surface for customizing a physical product are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may, in conjunction with enabling a user to customize a product design, access and identify certain parameters associated with certain page boxes of the electronic document. The electronic device may calculate a set of differences between certain aspect ratios associated with the page boxes, and accordingly modify certain parameters of the page boxes. The resulting page box modifications may mitigate certain errors associated with production of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Harrison Paine, David Greenberg, Anatoliy Tsykora, Vikramaditya Khemka
  • Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium storing information processing program
    Patent number: 11006015
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit that, in a case where plural keyword candidates representing information on an acquisition target are included in a document, sets a target keyword from the keyword candidates in accordance with priority information of defining a keyword to be preferentially used as the target keyword representing an item of the information on the acquisition target among the keyword candidates, an extraction unit that extracts a character string corresponding to the target keyword set by the setting unit, from the document, and an output unit that outputs the character string corresponding to the target keyword, which is extracted by the extraction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiko Kobayashi, Junichi Shimizu, Daigo Horie
  • Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-executable instructions for information processing device, and method of controlling information processing device
    Patent number: 11003401
    Abstract: An information processing device is configured to execute a management program and a print server program. The management program determines whether a non-compliant printer is connected to the information processing device, determines whether a print server program is running when the non-compliant printer is connected, starts up the print server program when the print server program is not running, and registers a print server configured by the print server program with an operating system. The print server program receives a print job designating the print server as an output destination, obtains individual print data which is printable by the non-compliant printer, and transmits the obtained individual print data to the non-compliant printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Jun Yamada