Patents Examined by Jamares Q Washington
  • Patent number: 12166940
    Abstract: A function extension server receives first scan data including a pattern image obtained by encoding additional information, and destination information indicating a destination of the first scan data, decodes the pattern image to acquire the additional information, and transmits the first scan data and the additional information to the destination indicated by the destination information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiko Mizuta
  • Patent number: 12165307
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a printer configured to print image data on a printing medium, a storage, and a controller configured to compare reference image data with an image printed on the printing medium, wherein the controller is configured to execute layout processing of the image data on the printing medium based on a size of the printing medium and an image size of the image data, calculate offset information in the layout processing of the image data on the printing medium, and store the image data of which the layout processing is executed and the offset information in the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobuaki Miyahara
  • Patent number: 12143553
    Abstract: A method and machine for digital printing with neutral colors, wherein the method uses a digital printing machine which has a print head which in turn has an ejector; providing a substrate for receiving digital printing; providing a printing product which has at least one light black (LK) printing ink having a concentration of black pigment that is lower than that of a black (K) ink; arranging the ejector with the printing product such that it is arranged for ejecting the printing product on the substrate; and performing digital printing on the substrate by means of ejecting the printing product according to a predefined design having at least one neutral color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Inventor: Jesus Francisco Barberan Latorre
  • Patent number: 12131085
    Abstract: An output system, a system, and an output method. The output system communicates with an output apparatus and an information processing apparatus, and transmits, in response to a request from the output apparatus for electronic data including source identification information received from the information processing apparatus, electronic data associated with a user identified based on the source identification information to the output apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Dohmae, Xiaofeng Han
  • Patent number: 12130182
    Abstract: A transmission type color gradation chart comprising: a color chart member including at least one color bar wherein transmitted light exhibits chromatic color; and a gray gradation chart member wherein transmitted light exhibits achromatic color, and includes a plurality of transmission regions with different brightness, wherein the color chart member and the gray gradation chart member are stacked so that there is a duplicative transmission region wherein the color bar and the plurality of transmission regions overlap in planar view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Maeda, Yoshihiko Ogino, Yoichi Kajimura
  • Patent number: 12131078
    Abstract: A terminal device may receive notification information from a notification server and receive device related information which is related to a communication device from the communication device. The terminal device may, in a case where a predetermined condition related to the device related information is satisfied, display the notification information on a display of a terminal device, and in a case where the predetermined condition is not satisfied, not display the notification information on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Shiotani
  • Patent number: 12125226
    Abstract: An image processor includes a map generator that generates a map being data including pixels each associated with depth-related information using an image captured with patterned light projected onto a target object, an edge detector that detects an edge of the target object using an image captured without patterned light projected onto the target object, and a corrector that corrects the map based on the detected edge to cause a discontinuous depth position to match a position of the edge of the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12105995
    Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus that performs printing based on print data received from an information processing apparatus transmitting print data to the printing apparatus, transmitting print data as a substitute for the print data based on first error information, and not transmitting the print data as a substitute for the print data upon receipt of second error information. The printing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect that the print data includes data that cannot be processed by the printing apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine error information to be transmitted to the information processing apparatus as the first or second error information based on information included in the print data having been detected to include the data that cannot be processed by the printing apparatus, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the error information determined by the determination unit to the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Kaneda
  • Patent number: 12100196
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method of performing quantization of a neural network having multiple layers. The method comprises receiving a floating-point dataset as input dataset and determining a first shift constant for first layer of the neural network based on the input dataset. The method also comprises performing quantization for the first layer using the determined shift constant of the first layer. The method further comprises determining a next shift constant for next layer of the neural network based on output of a layer previous to the next layer, and performing quantization for the next layer using the determined next shift constant. The method further comprises iterating the steps of determining shift constant and performing quantization for all layers of the neural network to generate fixed point dataset as output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Blaize, Inc.
    Inventors: Deepak Chandra Bijalwan, Pratyusha Musunuru
  • Patent number: 12101460
    Abstract: A resolution test card for camera module includes a central region and a plurality of corner regions surrounding the central region. Both the central region and each corner region includes color blocks arranged in an array without gap. Each color block includes at least two straight edges. Any adjacent two color blocks sharing one straight edge in both the central region and each corner region have different colors. Any of the at least two straight edges is inclined relative to a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; the at least two straight edges includes a first straight edge and a second straight edge perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: TRIPLE WIN TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO.LTD.
    Inventor: Jing Yang
  • Patent number: 12093581
    Abstract: A processing management device includes: at least one hardware processor configured to acquire a processing plan and a processing status of at least one processing device that performs processing, the processing plan being derived based on capability information of the at least one processing device, and perform control to display processing information that is information including the processing status of the at least one processing device, in which the at least one hardware processor displays, for each of the at least one processing device, information for identifying the at least one processing device and information indicating an operation state of the at least one processing device and a proportion of a processed sheet number to a planned sheet number of the at least one processing device, as the processing information, and the at least one hardware processor performs control such that the processing information is displayed in a figure for each of the at least one processing device and the figure is ar
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventor: Kimihiko Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12078540
    Abstract: An optical sensor having a common light sensing circuit for synchronously sensing a plurality of color light signals is provided. A plurality of photoelectric components respectively convert the plurality of color light signals into a plurality of photocurrents. A plurality of gain amplifiers respectively multiply the plurality of photocurrents by a plurality of gains to output a plurality of amplified photocurrents. An arithmetic circuit adds up the plurality of amplified photocurrents to output a total amplified photocurrent signal. A common analog-to-digital converter converts the total amplified photocurrent signal into a digital signal. A counter circuit counts bit values of the digital signal to output a counting signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jia-Hua Hong
  • Patent number: 12078543
    Abstract: When relation between a color of a color chip (a patch) in a color chart and a color of a color chip in an image-captured color chart is calculated, the color chip of the image-captured color chart was manually extracted by operating a keyboard or a mouse. Such an operation had a problem that an extraction error may occur, and that it takes time to manually extract all color chips in the color chart. The present invention solved the problem by a color chart in which recognition can be easily and automatically executed. The color chart includes a plurality of patches, and an automatic recognition marker configured to automatically recognize at least one of the plurality of patches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Takahashi, Yasuhiro Morihara, Norimichi Tsumura, Ryo Takahashi, Keiko Ogawa, Isseki Kin
  • Patent number: 12073130
    Abstract: A control apparatus analyzes a job used to execute print processing and acquires sheet information of a page included in the job, decides a print speed in the print processing based on the acquired information, and executes the print processing using the decided print speed. The sheet information of each of a plurality of pages included in the job is acquired, the print speed is decided based on the acquired information, and the print processing is executed using the decided print speed. Print processing is not executed during the acquisition of the sheet information of each of the plurality of pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiji Kanamoto, Shogo Higashi, Kazuo Wakai, Koichiro Manabe, Kosuke Tsujita
  • Patent number: 12063328
    Abstract: A color chart is for evaluating printing quality of an image forming apparatus. The color chart includes identification information and a color evaluation patch. The identification information is on an image forming apparatus on which evaluation of printing quality is to be performed. The color evaluation patch includes a plurality of color patches for performing evaluation of printing quality on the image forming apparatus indicated by the identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kihara, Yusuke Taneda, Yuta Nagata
  • Patent number: 12058298
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a web browser, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a color measurement device, a color measurement result which is a result obtained by performing color measurement of a printed chart using the color measurement device, wherein a screen related to color measurement of a chart for performing color validation by comparing a color measurement result of a chart and a color reference is displayed using the web browser, and wherein the color measurement result acquired by the acquisition unit is displayed using the web browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kimio Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12050132
    Abstract: A colorimetry device includes an integrating sphere having a measurement opening part and a trap hole, a trap disposed to be able to open and close the trap hole, a lid that is non-reflective and disposed to be able to open and close the trap hole, an imaging means disposed at a position that allows taking, through the trap hole, an image of a specimen facing the measurement opening part, and a display means that displays an image taken by the imaging means. The trap is to move to a position at which the trap hole is closed by the trap at a time of measurement of light with an SCI method, the light being reflected from the specimen, and the lid is moved to a position at which the trap hole is closed by the lid at a time of measurement of the light with an SCE method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yasuhisa Kinto
  • Patent number: 12050823
    Abstract: In a device management system, a terminal device receives a replacement instruction from a user when an acceptance condition is satisfied, and obtain first device identification information before the replacement, second device identification information after the replacement, first history information representing usage history of the first device from the first device without going through the server. The terminal device then transmits, to the server, a replacement request containing the first device identification information, the second identification information and the first history information. In a case where an allowance condition is satisfied, the server stores, in the storage of the server, second management information representing a relationship among the first management identification information associated with the first device identification information by the first management information, the first history information and the second device identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kasumi Hirose
  • Patent number: 12045524
    Abstract: A printing apparatus establishes a connection with an external apparatus in accordance with a predetermined communication protocol, receives, and temporarily stores in a spool area, print data transmitted from the external apparatus via the connection, and includes a printing unit to perform printing based on print data stored in the spool area. Whether or not to disconnect the connection with the external apparatus, in accordance with a setting preliminarily made by a user operation, is controlled in a case where reception of print data from the external apparatus is stopped halfway through and a predetermined time has elapsed in a state where the reception remains stopped, wherein the connection with the external apparatus is maintained in a case where the predetermined time has elapsed in a state where reception of print data from the external apparatus remains stopped and it has been set not to disconnect the connection with the external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hironobu Nakai
  • Patent number: 12039788
    Abstract: A path planning system includes an image-capturing device, a point-cloud map-retrieving device, and a processing device. The image-capturing device captures a first and a second camera road image. The point-cloud map-retrieving device retrieves distance data points to create a road distance point-cloud map. The processing device receives the road distance point-cloud map and the first and second camera road images, calibrates and fuses those to generate a road camera point-cloud fusion map, and then determines the road-line information of the second camera road image to generate a road-segmented map. The road-segmented map and the road camera point-cloud fusion map are fused. The distance data of the road-segmented map are obtained according to distance data points. A front driving path for the target road is planned according to the distance data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Inventors: Jiun-In Guo, Jen-Shuo Chang