Patents Examined by Juan M Guillermety
  • Patent number: 11240388
    Abstract: In an example implementation, a method of providing image registration information in a digital printing press includes imaging a printed page on an impression drum of a digital printing press, determining image registration information from printed content on the page, and displaying a graphical visualization of the image registration information on a user interface screen of the digital printing press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: HP Indigo B.V.
    Inventors: Motti-Mordechay Silberberg, Yaron Hershman
  • Patent number: 11221804
    Abstract: Systems and methods for visual timeline and operator prompt to improve data collection for a print system. One embodiment includes a printer terminal device configured to receive printer statuses of a printer over a period of time, each printer status indicating one of a printing state, an idle state, and an error state. The printer terminal device is configured to present a Graphical User Interface (GUI) at a display that includes a visual timeline of the printer statuses of the printer over the period of time with a different visual representation for each of the printing state, the idle state, and the error state. The printer terminal device is further configured to determine that a printer status displayed on the visual timeline is associated with absent user input, and to modify the visual timeline to display a visual indicator for the printer status indicating the absent user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Maryamossadat Nematollahi Mahani, Vlad Alin Iordachescu
  • Patent number: 11210038
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus, a second information processing apparatus, and a server configured to provide import data based on backup data of the first information processing apparatus to the second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus transmits identification information regarding the backup data to a mobile terminal through wireless communication. The second information processing apparatus receives the identification information from the mobile terminal through the wireless communication, acquires, based on the identification information, the import data from the server via a network, and executes an import process based on the import data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kou Hiraike
  • Patent number: 11210042
    Abstract: A data state manager may include a production intent module to define a production intent, a capability module to identify a number of capabilities of a plurality of media printing devices to which the data state manager is coupled, and a data stream module to, through a plurality of communication links to the media printing devices, stream a plurality of data streams to the plurality of media printing devices in a synchronized manner based on a number of characteristics of the streamed data and the identified capabilities of the media printing devices, with the data streams defining the production intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Ronald Tippetts
  • Patent number: 11200014
    Abstract: A display device includes a display section, an operation section, and a controller. The display section displays a screen. The operation section receives a first operation by which a display target area of the screen is changed. The controller changes the display target area of the screen in response to the operation section receiving the first operation. The screen includes an object. The object receives a second operation by which the display target area of the screen is changed. In response to the operation section receiving the first operation, the controller causes the object not to be displayed or increases a transparency of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Takushi Dandoko
  • Patent number: 11190647
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus capable of mounting an optional hardware. The information processing apparatus comprises a processor, an image processing circuit and a socket to which the optional hardware is to be mounted, wherein the optional hardware being connected to the socket communicates with the image processing circuit. The processor transmits a predetermined packet to the optional hardware mounted to the socket, receive a response packet to the predetermined packet from the image processing circuit, determines whether or not the received response packet is an expected response packet, and controls supplying power to the optional hardware in accordance with a determination result of the received response packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Xiaoli Wang
  • Patent number: 11184489
    Abstract: A printed material detection apparatus includes: a detector configured to transmit radio waves whose frequency of 1 GHz or more and 5 THz or less toward a printed material and to detect reflection or absorption of the radio waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Akira Mihara, Takeshi Zengo, Mamoru Fujita
  • Patent number: 11176432
    Abstract: A finisher apparatus includes an accumulator to register a print medium of a print job in preparation for a finishing operation, memory to store an attribute of the print job, and a processor coupled to the accumulator and the memory. The processor is to execute instructions. The instructions are to control the accumulator based on the attribute of the print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bruce G. Johnson, Matthew Douglas Reier, Elliott Downing, Cristopher Royce Jansson, Robert Yraceburu, Stuart Scofield
  • Patent number: 11172097
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire data, an instruction for a process in which the data are used, and biological information on a user who provides the instruction, and execute the process in accordance with a condition under which a time before the process is completed is shorter, when the biological information indicates that the user is in a specific psychological state, than a specific psychological state under a condition determined in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yusuke Taguchi, Yohei Makino, Akihiro Ishii, Shuhei Toda, Hiroyuki Mitsuhashi
  • Patent number: 11164055
    Abstract: An image processing device generates secondary data by acquiring a plurality of pieces of band data from a processor and performing image processing to the band data, and generates an interrupt to the processor each time of generating a piece of secondary data. The processor includes a division line number setting portion and a band dividing portion. The division line number setting portion sets, for each of the page images, a division line number representing a number of line images based on contents of one or more predetermined reference parameters related to load of the processor. The band dividing portion divides data of each of the page images into the plurality of pieces of band data each of which is composed of data of as many line images as the division line number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Shigeoka
  • Patent number: 11165928
    Abstract: A printing device has a print unit for printing on roll paper; a wireless communication unit for communicating wirelessly with a paired control device; and a controller for receiving print data by wireless communication from the control device, and controlling the print unit based on the received print data. When changing from a pairing-disabled mode to a pairing-enabled mode, the controller controls the print unit to print pairing-related information on roll paper, does not process pairing in the pairing-disabled mode, and processes pairing when a pairing request is received in the pairing-enabled mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yuma Iwahara, Hiroki Abe
  • Patent number: 11134168
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided though which a transaction, e.g., in a multi-tier, distributed application may be initiated from a portable or hand-held device, such as a smartphone. A computer system or systems, possibly remote from the device, may approve the transaction, complete it, or both, and the remote computer system or systems may cause a document to be printed, e.g., by a printer physically proximate to the device. Aspects of the invention are illustrated by embodiments in which a drug prescription may be created electronically using a hand-held device. In such an embodiment, the prescription may be transmitted to one or more remote computer systems, such as an application server, for processing. If specified, the remote computer systems may cause a prescription to be printed, e.g., at a printer near the prescriber's location. The prescriber may sign the printed prescription and give it to a patient or pharmacy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INVESTMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: John Koehl
  • Patent number: 11132149
    Abstract: A first server includes a control unit that transmits, to a device in accordance with a request from the device, Web content data including at least display information that includes at least region information and that indicates an application available to the device related to the region information, and an application command causing the device to execute processing in connection with the application from the device, and the device includes: a Web browser including a display control unit that performs control to transmit a display information request including at least region information to request display information and display, on a display unit, a screen based on the Web content data received from the first server and an executing unit that requests the device to perform processing in connection with the application related to the application command included in the Web content data by executing the application command in accordance with user's operation via the screen; and a processing executing unit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Matsushima, Ryoh Takemoto
  • Patent number: 11134529
    Abstract: A terminal of a communication system may obtain location information of a server of the communication system and related information related to a public key of a communication device of the communication system by using a computer program. The terminal may send a web page request to the server by using a browser program, receive web page data from the server by using the browser program, display as web page by using the browser program and activate the connection application by using the browser program. The terminal may obtain the public key by using the connection application, send an authentication request to the communication device by using the connection application, receive an authentication response from the communication device by using the connection application and execute a target communication with the communication device by using the connection application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Syun Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11122184
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a storage device storing, from among data to be retained when the power is shut off, either or both of important protection data, being a type determined to be important in advance, and protection data, to be retained when the power is shut off other than the important protection data, at respective predetermined timings. A detection information acquirer receives detection information from a sensor detecting at least one of: a change in either or both of direction and tilt, vibration, a predetermined operation, an approaching person, a person entering a room, and a person entering a predetermined area. A protection processor starts processing for writing either or both of the important protection data and the protection data into the storage device in response to the detection information received by the detection information acquirer, at timings different from the predetermined timings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Kondoh
  • Patent number: 11115553
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a registration unit and a controller. The registration unit registers prohibited information associated with at least one of pieces of attribute information on a per piece-of-attribute information basis. The controller refers to the pieces of attribute information and the prohibited information. The controller performs error handling if received image information includes the prohibited information associated with a piece of attribute information assigned to the image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Noriyuki Shimokawa
  • Patent number: 11113012
    Abstract: Strips of a page are processed according to a rendering technique, compressed, and stored in a memory buffer until a low memory condition of the buffer occurs. When the low memory condition occurs, the strips that are already stored in the buffer are decompressed, processed according to a memory utilization reduction technique, compressed, and stored in the memory buffer. Strips that are not yet already stored in the buffer when the low memory condition occurs are processed according to the rendering technique and then according to the memory utilization reduction technique before being compressed and stored in the memory buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Mark Shaw, Kurt Robert Bengston, Dominic Wayda
  • Patent number: 11108923
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to obtain, from a certain user identified from input authentication information for authenticating the certain user, a request to share personal setting information regarding a personal setting of another user and permit the certain user to share the other user's personal setting information in accordance with permission information indicating the other user's permission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Hirano, Tomonori Tanaka, Tatsuo Mishima, Rie Muraishi, Manabu Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11106956
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transceiver circuit configured to transmit a signal. A carriage having a recording head is movable relative to the transceiver circuit. A counter counts how many times the carriage moves. An amplifier circuit mounted on the carriage receives the signal from the transceiver circuit through a cable and amplifies the received signal. A carriage controller changes a gain of the amplifier circuit, based on a count value of the counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Hamano
  • Patent number: 11099791
    Abstract: According to the present invention, an information processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises: a determination unit that determines a result of installation processing of an application from an external server that stores the application to a device; a download unit that downloads the application from the external server if it is determined that the external server cannot be referred to; and a transmission unit that transmit, to the device, an installation instruction for the application together with location information indicating a download destination to which the application was downloaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daisuke Yamazaki