Patents Examined by Juan M Guillermety
  • Patent number: 9251448
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an interpreter processing part for creating intermediate data by analyzing a page description language; a rasterize processing part for creating RIP image data for each band for dividing each page into a plurality of parts, on the basis of the intermediate data; a characteristic value calculating part for calculating a characteristic value of RIP image data and associating the calculated characteristic value with the corresponding RIP image data; and an expansion processing part for, when the RIP image data whose characteristic value agrees with that of RIP image data that is a target for expansion are stored in a cache, reading out the RIP image data whose characteristic value agrees, the RIP image data being stored in the cache, and storing the RIP image data in an expansion memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi Hakamada
  • Patent number: 9247094
    Abstract: An information processing device including an image processing unit, a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with a terminal device within a communicable distance from the terminal device, a display, an input unit, and a controller configured to, after the wireless communication with the terminal device, control the display to display one or more parameters of all parameters available for setting an image processing operation by the image processing unit, the one or more parameters including at least one un-selectable parameter that is not selectable on the terminal device, and in response to receiving, via the input unit, a signal corresponding to a specific parameter of the one or more parameters displayed on the display, control the image processing unit to perform the image processing operation based on the specific parameter corresponding to the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9232092
    Abstract: A display processing unit causes a display device to display a screen on the basis of screen image data. A screen change detecting unit watches the screen image data and detects a change of the screen image data. A transmission processing unit transmits the screen image data to a monitoring apparatus if the screen change detecting unit detected a change of the screen image data. A storage device stores excluding condition data. The transmission processing unit does not transmit the screen image data if the detected change of the screen image data satisfies the excluding condition specified by the excluding condition data and transmits the screen image data if the detected change of the screen image data does not satisfy the excluding condition specified by the excluding condition data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Takanori Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 9208407
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an operating section accepting an operation by a user, a receiving section receiving data for a print job from an externally connected instrument, an image forming section starting an image forming based on a print job if the operating section accepts an operation to start the print job or if the receiving section receives data for the print job, a display section displaying varieties of information for printing on a display area, a lighting section illuminating the display section from a back portion thereof, and a control section causing lighting of the lighting section to be turned off gradually part by part until finally turned off entirely if entire lighting of the lighting section is in a state of keeping being turned on when the image forming section starts an image forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yutaro Honda
  • Patent number: 9159002
    Abstract: A relay transport apparatus (400) includes a first transport path, a plurality of first transport sections (63), a plurality of driving sections (64), and a drive transmission section (65). The first transport path is formed so as to couple a carry-in port and a carry-out port. The first transport path includes a plurality of segments (S2a and S2b). The plurality of first transport sections (63) are disposed along the first transport path. The first transport sections are configured to transport the paper sheet carried in from the carry-in port to the carry-out port along the first transport path. The plurality of driving sections (64) correspond to the respective segments. The plurality of driving sections (64) are configured to drive the first transport section in the corresponding segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sohichi Takata
  • Patent number: 9152112
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a page data generation unit is configured to generate page data of a job list screen that includes a link to the page data of a detailed information screen on an uncompleted job. The detailed information screen is a screen that displays the status of one job determined by a job status management unit. The page data generation is further configured to (A) generate the page data of a job request screen, and (B) if the job receipt unit receives a job that is requested based on the page data of the job request screen, generate the page data of a receipt-confirmation screen that includes a link to the page data of the detailed information screen on the received job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Maeda, Toru Yasui, Kensaku Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9154664
    Abstract: A receiver image processing apparatus capable of easily performing post-processing in line with a print setting. The receiver image processing apparatus includes a printing unit able to print image data on a plurality of types of sheets of different sizes. When an incoming call arrives from a sender image processing apparatus, a determination unit of the apparatus determines whether a setting to perform post-processing on sheets by a post-processing unit has been made by a setting unit. If it is determined that the setting to perform post-processing has been made, a notification unit of the receiver image processing apparatus notifies size information representing a sheet size belonging to a predetermined series, as ability information of the apparatus, to the sender image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Uruma
  • Patent number: 9137232
    Abstract: A document presentation system routes a document having sensitive data to various users, wherein the various users have different levels of permission to access the sensitive data. When any user displays the document on a display of an electronic device, the display will show document so that sensitive data is replaced with an augmented reality (AR) marker. The AR marker may include a descriptor of the class of data to which the sensitive data belongs. The system will also display an AR overlay for each AR marker. For each user, the AR overlay for each AR marker will include none, some, or all of the sensitive data corresponding to the AR marker. The amount of the sensitive data that will be displayed will depend on the user's authorization level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Reiner Eschbach, Raja Bala, Saurabh Prabhat, Michael R. Furst
  • Patent number: 9116653
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus may receive first information relating to a first function executing apparatus from the first function executing apparatus. The first function executing apparatus may be configured to execute a scan function. The terminal apparatus may select, by using the first information, a particular communication scheme from among M1 items of communication schemes in a case where the first information is received. Each of the M1 items of communication schemes may be different from each other and may be a communication scheme available for the first function executing apparatus to send scan data. The terminal apparatus may send a first selection result indicating the particular communication scheme to the first function executing apparatus in a case where the particular communication scheme is selected from among the M1 items of communication schemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takanobu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9111207
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus may receive first information relating to a first function executing apparatus from the first function executing apparatus. The first function executing apparatus may be configured to execute a print function. The terminal apparatus may cause a display mechanism of the terminal apparatus to display a first image indicating M1 items of communication schemes by using the first information. Each of the M1 items of communication schemes may be a communication scheme available for the first function executing apparatus to receive print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takanobu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9102139
    Abstract: A supply cable of a printing head of a continuous inkjet printer, including means for supplying fluids to the head, means forming a bidirectional digital serial link in order to transmit digital data between the head and the means for driving the printer, and low voltage power supply means, as well as a circuit for a printing head of a continuous jet printer and a method for transmitting data to the printing head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: MARKEM-IMAJE
    Inventors: Patrick Soto, Max Brousse
  • Patent number: 9104355
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus may receive first information relating to a first function executing apparatus from the first function executing apparatus. The first function executing apparatus may be configured to execute a print function. The terminal apparatus may select, by using the first information, a particular communication scheme from among M1 items of communication schemes in a case where the first information is received. Each of the M1 items of communication schemes may be different from each other and may be a communication scheme available for the first function executing apparatus to receive print data. The terminal apparatus may send first print data to the first function executing apparatus in accordance with the particular communication scheme in a case where the particular communication scheme is selected from among the M1 items of communication schemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takanobu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9104360
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus may receive first information relating to a first function executing apparatus from the first function executing apparatus. The first function executing apparatus may be configured to execute a scan function. The terminal apparatus may cause a display mechanism of the terminal apparatus to display a first image indicating M1 items of communication schemes by using the first information. Each of the M1 items of communication schemes may be a communication scheme available for the first function executing apparatus to send scan data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takanobu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9098794
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards employing a printer to convert a document from its native file format into an image representation printable by the printer. A document may be provided to the printer in a native file format (e.g., .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, or .pptx) that is editable by a document-processing application. A page representation of each of page of the document to be printed may be determined. Each page representation (which may include a plurality of graphics primitives) may be determined straight from the native file format of the document independent of an intermediate page description language. From each page representation, an image representation (e.g., a bitmap) may be determined based on the plurality of graphics primitives of a corresponding page representation. At least one page of the document may be printed based on the determined image representations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: CSR Imaging US, LP
    Inventors: Michael Braun, Marc Claus Kunz
  • Patent number: 9083826
    Abstract: An approach is provided for tracking the processing of electronic document data by network services. One or more network services receive, from a network device, such as a multi-function peripheral (MFP), electronic document data that represents one or more electronic documents. A trace network service determines whether tracing has been specified for the electronic document data. In response to determining that tracing has been specified for the electronic document data, the trace network service tracks the processing of the electronic document data by the one or more network services. The trace network service generates trace report data that indicates results of the processing of the electronic document data by the one or more network services. The trace network service also transmits the trace report data to one or more specified recipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Lu, Guiluan Luo, Jiang Hong, Kaoru Watanabe, Jayasimha Nuggehalli
  • Patent number: 9073341
    Abstract: The present invention reduces an uneven color of a color having two or more colors of inks, the uneven color occurring due to manufacturing variations of ink ejection nozzles and so on. Each of a plurality of correction tables that is assigned to each predetermined number of nozzles that are used for printing on a common region in the print medium, of a plurality of nozzle arrays formed on a print head, each of the nozzle arrays ejecting a plurality of inks including a first ink and a second ink whose color is different from the color of the first ink, is generated on the basis of at least an ink ejection property of nozzles ejecting the first and second inks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akitoshi Yamada, Nobutaka Miyake, Makoto Torigoe, Tohru Ikeda, Fumitaka Goto, Tomokazu Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9069497
    Abstract: A print relay server relays print data generated by a print server to an image forming device. The print relay server includes a relay virtual printer that instructs the corresponding image forming device to print out print data and a functional relay virtual printer that has a function for realizing a specified print service not provided by the print server. The functional relay virtual printer acquires print data from the print server which has generated print data in response to a print request from a client, and instructs an image forming device, which executes a process for realizing the specified print service, to print out print data via the relay virtual printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takuya Natori
  • Patent number: 9060088
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image processing section, a power source section, a power source operation section, and a controller. The controller may be configured to perform determining whether or not a state of the image processing apparatus is a special state when a power control operation is started, determining whether or not the power control operation is the special power control operation, and controlling the power source section to carry out an operation according to the power control operation when the state is not the special state, or when the state is the special state and when the power control operation is the special power control operation, but controlling the power source section not to carry out the operation when the state is the special state and when the power control operation is not the special power control operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9058140
    Abstract: When a printer apparatus is allowed to execute a printing of a document using paper based on a print setting set by the user, the following processes are executed in order to allow the user to recognize a paper saving print setting. Whether or not there is a print setting which can save an amount of paper compared to the print setting set by the user is determined. If it is determined that a paper saving print setting exists, the user is notified of such a paper saving print setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuo Kurata, Tadanobu Fujita, Hiroshi Shintoku, Hiroshi Okubo, Tetsuhide Takasaki
  • Patent number: 9047037
    Abstract: A medium stores computer-executable instructions. In a case that a display instruction of a print setting screen is outputted by a first application program executed by an information processing apparatus, the instructions cause the information processing apparatus to perform: a display process for displaying the print setting screen on a display section; and a storage judgment process for judging whether a shared printing condition shared by different application programs is stored in a predetermined storage section. In a case that it is judged that the shared printing condition is not stored in the predetermined storage section, the instructions cause the information processing apparatus to perform: a shared printing condition accepting process for accepting setting of a new shared printing condition; and a storage process for storing the new shared printing condition and identification information of the first application program in the predetermined storage section being correlated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kayo Imagawa