Patents Examined by Jacky X. Zheng
  • Patent number: 11836554
    Abstract: A first set correction target value set for a correction target value generation region including a unit region corresponding to one or more nozzles is updated based on a difference between the first set correction target value and a print density in the unit region corresponding to the correction target value generation region. Also, a second set correction target value set for a correction target value generation region being adjacent to an updated region which is a correction target value generation region updated in the correction target value and having yet to be updated in the correction target value is updated based on a difference between the second set correction target value and the correction target value of the updated region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Minako Kato
  • Patent number: 11831837
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus operating as a virtual network computing (VNC) server includes a memory and at least one processor in communication with the memory, wherein the at least one processor of the information processing apparatus is configured to perform, in a case where a request for a VNC connection is received from a second VNC client in a state in which the information processing apparatus is connected with a first VNC client using VNC, first connection control to maintain the connection with the first VNC client and not to establish a VNC connection with the second VNC client, or second connection control to cut off the connection with the first VNC client and to establish the VNC connection with the second VNC client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaki Kawanishi
  • Patent number: 11831829
    Abstract: An image control apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus through a network includes one or more controllers having one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more controllers are configured to receive, through a network, a shutdown instruction issued to the image forming apparatus, and determine whether the image forming apparatus is connected to a second network other than a first network through which the image forming apparatus is connected to the image control apparatus. When the one or more controllers determine that the image forming apparatus is connected to the second network other than the first network, the one or more controllers do not issue the shutdown instruction to the image forming apparatus even when the one or more controllers receive the shutdown instruction through the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Anno
  • Patent number: 11822279
    Abstract: A printing system includes a product inspection unit configured to perform product inspection on a print product based on a scanned image generated by reading the print product with an image printed thereon and correct answer images stored in advance, a post-processing unit configured to perform post-processing on the print product, and a control unit configured to, upon occurrence of a jam in the print product, control the printing unit to perform reprinting, wherein, upon occurrence of a jam while the post-processing is performed, the product inspection unit is notified of identification information regarding the print product on which printing is started by the reprinting, and wherein, based on the identification information, the product inspection unit references any of the correct answer images corresponding to a scanned image generated by the reprinting and performs the product inspection on the print product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Aya Kasahara
  • Patent number: 11816515
    Abstract: A print data editing device includes a controller configured to performs acquiring print data, and converting the print data. The converting includes determining, as a conversion sub-dot, one or more of sub-dots included in a sub-line for each of all sub-lines constituting one line within printing areas in an image represented by the print data, and editing the print data such that the print data indicates OFF for the one or more sub-dots determined as the conversion sub-dot. Each sub-line is constituted by the sub-dots. The sub-dot is a printing unit obtained by dividing a dot into M parts in a sub-scanning direction, where M is an integer of two or greater. The sub-dot for which the print data indicates ON is a printing area. The sub-dot for which the print data indicates OFF is a non-printing area. An area outside a printing region is also the non-printing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mina Takechi, Yuki Naruse, Kohei Terada, Isao Fukuchi
  • Patent number: 11811992
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes circuitry to determine a type of a document based on a determination result of a character area and a non-character area in an input image of the document; select a model to be used in top-bottom determination from a plurality of models based on the type of the document; reduce the input image, to generate a reduced image; and cut out a part of the input image as a partial image. The circuitry outputs a top-bottom determination result of the input image using the selected model and one of the reduced image and the partial image corresponding to the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Itoh
  • Patent number: 11805211
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming unit, a sheet folding unit, a sheet discharge tray, and a control unit. For the print job in which a first sheet bundle and a second sheet bundle are discharged onto the sheet discharge tray, the control unit is configured to selectively execute a first image forming mode or a second image forming mode. The first image forming mode is a mode in which a page order is controlled in such a manner that page numbers of sheets included in the second sheet bundle are larger than page numbers of sheets included in the first sheet bundle. The second image forming mode is a mode in which a page order is controlled in such a manner that page numbers of sheets included in the first sheet bundle are larger than page numbers of sheets included in the second sheet bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Muto, Keisuke Aizono
  • Patent number: 11805213
    Abstract: An image forming system comprising: an image forming apparatus capable of transitioning between a standby mode and a sleep mode; and a wireless operation device capable of wireless communication with the image forming apparatus, the wireless operation device including: a display; a battery configured to perform power supply to the display; and a controller configured to control the power supply from the battery to the display, wherein, in response to transition of the image forming apparatus from the standby mode to the sleep mode with a predetermined amount of power being supplied from the battery to the display, the controller makes a supply amount of power from the battery to the display less than the predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Minoru Akazawa
  • Patent number: 11797807
    Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of preventing generation of an output result that is not intended by a user. A notification unit is included which gives a notification regarding a color of at least one of a spot color object or a non-spot color object having color information matching spot-color color information of the spot color object in a case where the spot color object and the non-spot color object are present in a predetermined display region as a result of editing by an editing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoru Odera
  • Patent number: 11792338
    Abstract: An image forming system is configured to receive an input of natural language speech. Regardless of whether the natural language speech includes a combination of first words or second words, the image forming system can recognize the natural language speech as an instruction to select a specific print setting displayed on a screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Yuji Naya, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11789395
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes circuitry that detects a position at which a first image is formed on a first face of a recording medium between an instant when the first image is formed on the first face of the recording medium and an instant when a second image is formed on a second face of the recording medium, calculates a first adjustment value used to adjust a position at which the second image is formed on the second face of the recording medium, based on the detected position at which the first image is formed on the first face of the recording medium, adjusts the position at which the second image is formed on the second face of the recording medium, based on the first adjustment value, and detects the adjusted position at which the second image is formed on the second face of the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yukifumi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11792344
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printing apparatus that prints an image on a sheet, a sheet processer that executes sheet processing, and a sheet detection sensor that detects a sheet on which the sheet processing is performed not in association with the printing of an image, where the printing of an image is restricted in response to detection of a sheet by the sheet detection sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Mutsuno, Masaki Kashiwagi, Akinori Takeo, Satoshi Totsuka
  • Patent number: 11785152
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a plurality of functions registers, as setting information on a display button corresponding to the application, setting information including settings with which at least two of the plurality of functions are used, generates the display button corresponding to the application, the display button corresponding to each function included in the setting information, based on the registered setting information, and displays the generated display button on a screen. When the display button is selected via the screen, the image forming apparatus executes the application corresponding to the selected display button, based on the setting information corresponding to the selected button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shu Kumahashi
  • Patent number: 11785156
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a processor is configured to: read an image of at least one of a first surface or a second surface of a medium with the medium folded; discriminate whether the image is of the first surface or the second surface based on an identification image in the image; specify, based on the image, a surface on which a folding deviation occurs; and determine a correction direction of the folding deviation according to whether the surface on which the folding deviation occurs is the first surface or the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shogo Tanaka, Kenji Sawai
  • Patent number: 11775790
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus forms a color image on a recording medium by superimposing images of colors formed by image forming units. The apparatus includes a processor that: acquires a read image by reading the recording medium on which the color image has been formed; forms a register patch outside a job image forming region of the recording medium; and corrects image forming positions of the image forming units based on the read image that includes the register patch. The register patch includes: a leading end patch and a rear end patch formed with a reference color material; and one or more measurement target color patches formed with measurement target color materials between the leading end patch and the rear end patch. The hardware processor corrects the image forming positions based on relative positions of the leading end patch, the rear end patch, and the measurement target color patches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nomura
  • Patent number: 11778114
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: prohibit setting performed for automatic execution of a processing instruction causing a series of registered processing steps to be performed, the automatic execution being performed on data stored in a storage area, or prohibit manual execution, of the processing instruction, on the data stored in the storage area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Toshiharu Hayashida
  • Patent number: 11765300
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for identifying blank spaces in a document for embedding an Infrared (IR) mark in the document. The method includes receiving the document for printing from the user. A user interface is provided to the user that allows the user to select a pre-defined option. Upon selection of the pre-defined option, inputs from the user on the IR mark is received. Based on the inputs from the user, a specified portion of the document is extracted for processing. Then, blank spaces are checked in the extracted portion based on a size of the IR mark to be embedded in the document. Based on the check, the IR mark is embedded in the identified blank space. An output document is outputted/printed including the IR mark in the specified portion of the document. The IR mark is embedded such that there is no content loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Packiya Lakshmi Balusamy, Ravindranath Mannuru, Haripriya Chandran
  • Patent number: 11762609
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a first memory, a second memory, an input circuit that alternately inputting second reference data and third reference data different from each other to the second memory, a processing circuit that performs first color processing with reference to first reference data in the first memory on print data, second color processing with reference to the second reference data in the second memory on the print data, and third color processing with reference to the third reference data in the second memory to the print data, and a printing mechanism that performs printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kohei Kuwata
  • Patent number: 11758071
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing identification and removal of noise from documents, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing identification and removal of noise from financial documents using one or more machine learning algorithms. In various embodiments, computing system might receive a document. The computing system might detect, using one or more machine learning algorithms, that noise exists in the document. Based on the detection that noise exists in the document, the computing system might remove the noise from the document. Once the noise is removed from the document, the computing system might generate a copy of the document with the noise removed while retaining important or useful information contained in the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: HighRadius Corporation
    Inventors: Mohit Bansal, Rehan Ahmad, Harshita Srivastava, Shrey Chirag Shah
  • Patent number: 11755865
    Abstract: A system is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Walter F. Kailey, Ziling Zhang, Nikita Gurudath, Samuel Hopper