Patents Examined by Kent Yip
  • Patent number: 12283047
    Abstract: In one example a method of fracture reduction includes imaging, intraoperatively, a fractured bone of a patient to obtain a first representation of the fractured bone in a computing system. The fractured bone defines at least a first bone fragment, and a second bone fragment that is separated from the first bone fragment by a fracture. The method includes imaging, intraoperatively, a contralateral bone of the patient to obtain a second representation of the contralateral bone in the computing system. The method includes generating, intraoperatively in the computing system, a mirrored representation of the first representation or the second representation. The first representation is compared to a representation of a desired orientation of the fractured bone, where the representation of the desired orientation is the mirrored representation of the second representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Campbell, Glen Pierson, Ross Hamel
  • Patent number: 12284323
    Abstract: A method of controlling an image processing apparatus that communicates with a chat service includes storing information on a transmission source of image data and a talk room in the chat service in association with each other, receiving image data, transferring the received image data to a stored transfer destination in association with the information on the transmission source of the image data, and notifying the talk room, stored in association with the information on the transmission source of the image data, that the image data has been received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hikaru Sugita
  • Patent number: 12277355
    Abstract: There is provided a technique capable of updating a program without decreasing user convenience regardless of whether a service is subscribed. A communication apparatus capable of providing a function based on a service according to an agreement includes an acquisition unit which acquires, from a server, first update information about a first update to correct an error relevant to the service and second update information about a second update to correct an error irrelevant to the service, and a regulation unit which regulates use of the function provided by the service in a case where the first update is not executed based on the first update information. The regulation unit does not regulate the use of the function provided by the service in a case where the second update is not executed based on the second update information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryoko Kojima
  • Patent number: 12272088
    Abstract: A method for detecting a crosswalk using a crosswalk detection device is provided. The method includes acquiring point data around a lidar sensor from the lidar sensor, detecting one or more crosswalk points among a plurality of points included in the point data based on intensities of the plurality of points; and detecting the crosswalk based on positions of the detected crosswalk points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Vueron Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changhwan Chun, Seungyong Lee
  • Patent number: 12273491
    Abstract: The present invention is an information processing device in which a printer driver for causing an image forming device to perform processing according to items is installed, and which is provided with an editable tab on a settings screen of the printer driver such that the items can be selected by a user. The information processing device includes a controller that, in a state where information about the editable tab has been registered in the image forming device by an administrator, and an acquisition request for information about the registered editable tab has been made from the printer driver to the image forming device, causes information about the registered editable tab to be transmitted to the information processing device, and causes the transmitted information to be reflected in the editable tab of the printer driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi Kawano
  • Patent number: 12271641
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: perform a first authentication process to authenticate a user; and if a job is stored on a second accumulator having a higher security level than a first accumulator by the user authenticated via the first authentication process, perform as an additional authentication process a second authentication process different from the first authentication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hiroki Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 12272071
    Abstract: A method (and system) of segmenting one or more histological structures in a tissue image represented by multi-parameter cellular and sub-cellular imaging data includes receiving coarsest level image data for the tissue image, wherein the coarsest level image data corresponds to a coarsest level of a multiscale representation of first data corresponding to the multi-parameter cellular and sub-cellular imaging data. The method further includes breaking the coarsest level image data into a plurality of non-overlapping superpixels, assigning each superpixel a probability of belonging to the one or more histological structures using a number of pre-trained machine learning algorithms to create a probability map, extracting an estimate of a boundary for the: one or more histological structures by applying a contour algorithm to the probability map, and using the estimate of the boundary to generate a refined boundary for the one or more histological structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Srinivas C. Chennubhotla, Om Choudhary, Akif Burak Tosun, Jeffrey Fine
  • Patent number: 12236144
    Abstract: In a system in which communication between an information processing apparatus and a printing apparatus is possible, the information processing apparatus detects that communication with the printing apparatus has become possible and, in response to detection that such communication has become possible, generates print data based upon data that the information processing apparatus is displaying on a display unit connected to or built in the information processing apparatus, and transfers the generated print data to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus prints the data received from the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigeru Hiroki
  • Patent number: 12223215
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus is provided that is connected to an information processing apparatus via a network. The image forming apparatus is capable of performing direct printing for PDF data, and the image forming apparatus includes at least one memory that stores a program; and at least one processor that execute the program to perform: notifying a user of information via mail in a case where print data received from the information processing apparatus is a PDF portfolio and it is not possible to perform direct printing for the PDF portfolio using the image forming apparatus, the information including a message indicating that printing should be performed using an application compatible with the PDF portfolio and a command to open the PDF portfolio using the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Morikazu Ito
  • Patent number: 12217416
    Abstract: A method is provided for surface-selective coating of a surface of an individual physical document, in particular a card-like document, with a liquid coating. The method includes: receiving or generating an actual image information by image sensors, which represents an actual image of the surface; and comparing the actual image information with reference image information, which represents a reference image of a reference surface corresponding to the surface, to determine, based on possible deviations between the actual image and the reference image, any deformation of the surface compared to the reference surface and to generate deformation information representing said deformation or alternatively the absence thereof. A coating device is then controlled based on coating information determined based on the deformation information and on geometry information that defines a target shape of a partial surface of the surface to be provided with the liquid coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Mühlbauer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: René Heidner, Martin Dimpfl
  • Patent number: 12183056
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media that utilize a deep visual fingerprinting model with parameters learned from robust contrastive learning to identify matching digital images and image provenance information. For example, the disclosed systems utilize an efficient learning procedure that leverages training on bounded adversarial examples to more accurately identify digital images (including adversarial images) with a small computational overhead. To illustrate, the disclosed systems utilize a first objective function that iteratively identifies augmentations to increase contrastive loss. Moreover, the disclosed systems utilize a second objective function that iteratively learns parameters of a deep visual fingerprinting model to reduce the contrastive loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Maksym Andriushchenko, John Collomosse, Xiaoyang Li, Geoffrey Oxholm
  • Patent number: 12182460
    Abstract: An image forming device includes a printer, a display, and a controller. The printer forms a desired image indicated by image data on a sheet. The display displays the desired image. The controller receives a first designation, by a user, of a designation region of the desired image displayed on the display. The controller receives a second designation, by the user, of a superimposition position at which an abnormality region containing an abnormality is superimposed on the desired image. The controller transmits user designation information indicating the designation region and the superimposition position to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Haru Hikita, Sou Miyazaki, Masaki Narahashi, Hideyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 12175137
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus using an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet and a display unit configured to display information includes at least one controller, the at least one controller configured to function as a management unit configured to manage print data in association with user information, the management unit configured to discriminably manage information about previously-printed print data and information about unprinted print data, and a unit configured to display on the display unit a user selection screen on which a plurality of selection objects corresponding to the user information is arrangeable and on which the selection object corresponding to the user information associated with the unprinted print data is arranged while no selection object corresponding to the user information associated with the previously-printed print data but not associated with the unprinted print data is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Zhi Lin
  • Patent number: 12175692
    Abstract: A localization method includes scanning a surrounding space by using laser outputted from a reference region; processing spatial information about the surrounding space based on a reflection signal of the laser; extracting feature vectors to which the spatial information has been reflected by using a deep learning network which uses space vectors including the spatial information as input data; and comparing the feature vectors with preset reference map data, and thus estimating location information about the reference region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: NAVER LABS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min Young Chang, Su Yong Yeon, Soo Hyun Ryu, Dong Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 12166931
    Abstract: A print apparatus registers information of the print apparatus in a server via an external access point based on an instruction provided via an operation screen of the print apparatus, obtains print data when an audio control device receives a print instruction by audio so that the server generates the print data, and executes a print process based on the obtained print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Maeda, Ryohei Saito
  • Patent number: 12164815
    Abstract: An inspection apparatus includes a controller having one or more processors and one or more memories. The controller is configured to receive a plurality of image files. Each image file represents one page. Each image file is provided with a page number. The controller is also configured to receive page order information of the image files and to rearrange the image files based on the received page order information and the respective page number provided to each image file. The controller is also configured to register the rearranged image files as a correct image for inspection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Murakami
  • Patent number: 12153834
    Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium stores a supporting program executable by a computer of an information processing apparatus. The supporting program, when executed by the computer, causes the information processing apparatus to execute, when being requested from the printing program of an operating system for processing in response to a change of a print setting, obtaining the print setting, generating, based on the obtained print setting, notification data including a notifying image indicating a configurational image of a printed object, and displaying the notifying image on the print setting screen displayed on a display of the information processing apparatus by outputting the generated notification data to the printing program of the operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshito Hosomizo
  • Patent number: 12145748
    Abstract: A method for the non-destructive inspection of an aeronautical component having a step of obtaining a plurality of digital images of a unit area of the aeronautical component, a step of estimating a characteristic image representative of the unit area, each pixel of the characteristic image having a characteristic vector, a step of dividing the characteristic image into a plurality of micro prediction zones, a step of comparing the characteristic vector of each pixel in each micro prediction zone with a previously estimated local statistical model of the micro prediction zone, the local model of a micro prediction zone being obtained by means of a learning algorithm from characteristic vectors of pixels in a micro learning zone of the annotated characteristic image which includes the micro prediction zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventor: Alexis Reynald Paul Huck
  • Patent number: 12143548
    Abstract: A first terminal device includes a communicator capable of communicating with a server device which provides a service enabling message exchange among a plurality of terminal devices, a controller, and a display, wherein the controller displays, on the display, a message showing that a first communication device received a first image from the second communication device, receives an instruction for sending a second image to the second communication device, and, when failing to send the second image to the second communication device, sends, to the server device, an instruction for sending a reply message in response to having received the first image to the second terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sho Kamihisa
  • Patent number: 12141936
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a processor connected to a memory. The processor functions as a deformation unit. The deformation unit serves to deform a reference projection screen that is a projection screen of a surrounding image of a moving object. The reference projection screen is deformed by using position information in which detection points around the moving object are accumulated and using self-location information of the moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Ohhashi