Patents Examined by King Y. Poon
  • Patent number: 11496647
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to convert the values of pixels in a glossy region of process target image data by inputting the process target image data to a first learning unit that has been trained using, as first learning data, first read image data and second read image data so as to convert the first read image data into the second read image data. The glossy region corresponds to a glossy portion of a document. The first read image data include the glossy region, and are obtained by optically reading the document in a first reading environment in which the light amount of regularly reflected light from a learning data document acquired by an image sensor is less than a regularly reflected light amount threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yusuke Machii, Takuji Tahara, Yusuke Yamaura
  • Patent number: 11487485
    Abstract: An advertisement system has a printer and a posting server that can communicate with the printer. The advertisement system uses the printer to issue a flyer on which advertisement images are printed. The posting server acquires a plurality of advertisement images of different advertisers, and selects a plurality of advertisement images from the plurality of acquired advertisement images according to a distribution period for the flyer, the distribution period being set for each acquired advertisement image. The posting server then creates print data involved in printing the plurality of selected advertisement images, and transmits the created print data to the printer. The printer receives the print data created by the posting server. To issue the flyer, the printer executes printing according to the received print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Kato, Kan Matsuda, Tomomi Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 11489981
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus operable to accept a login of a user by an input of medium information stored in a storage medium or an input via a user interface is provided. The apparatus comprises a storage to store account information that includes user identification information of a registered user and can further include the medium information associated with the user; a reader to read the medium information from the storage medium; a user interface to display a screen and accept an input; and a controller configured to accept a login by a user, wherein the controller, in a case where, at the time of a login of a user via the user interface, the medium information associated with a corresponding user is not registered, registers, in association with the corresponding user, the medium information inputted by the reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kyohei Takeda
  • Patent number: 11482026
    Abstract: Information processing apparatus including a processor configured to acquire a document image representing one of multiple documents, a partial image representing a part included in the document image and having a character written in the document, and a character recognition result regarding the character. The character recognition result includes a first character recognition result regarding a first character and a second character recognition result regarding a second character. The processor is configured to display the first document image, the first character recognition result, and a first partial image associated with the first character recognition result on a document basis in a first display mode. The processor is further configured to, in a second display mode, display the second character recognition result and a second partial image associated with the second character recognition result on a basis of a character common to the multiple documents and not display the document image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Naoki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11481948
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method, device and storage medium for generating an animation. The method includes: acquiring a configuration file corresponding to a configuration file identifier; determining behavior information and animated resources based on the configuration file; acquiring first animated resources based on first animated resource identifiers in the behavior information; and generating the animation by synthesizing the behavior information and the first animated resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuan Liu, Zhenlong Bai, Kaijian Jiang, Chao Wang
  • Patent number: 11475685
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating notifications based on extracted data from documents using a machine learning algorithm. The method includes receiving a document uploaded by a user including data corresponding to the user. The method further includes receiving an indication from the user granting permission to extract the data from the document. The method also includes extracting the data from the document using optical character recognition. The method further includes determining a document type based on the extracted data and document format data using a machine learning algorithm. The method also includes verifying the extracted data based on the determined document type and user data. The method also includes identifying a triggering event corresponding to the document based on the extracted data and the user data. The method further includes generating a notification corresponding to the triggering event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Nilesh Goel, Samir Kakkar, Shruthi Kulkarni, Diksha Arora
  • Patent number: 11457124
    Abstract: An example image forming apparatus includes a user interface device, an image forming job operator, a processor, and a memory. The processor executes instructions to perform a redaction process of redacting personal information displayed on a preview screen of a document through the user interface device of the image forming apparatus and included in the document, show display state information of the personal information, in synchronization with a progress of the redaction process, and control the image forming job operator to perform an image forming job with respect to the document in which the personal information is redacted when the redaction process is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Incheon Park, Jaein Lee, Daehyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11450123
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a storage device and a processor. The storage device stores a plurality of images captured by a camera. The processor: accesses visual data associated with an image captured by the camera; determines a tile size parameter for partitioning the visual data into a plurality of tiles; partitions the visual data into the plurality of tiles based on the tile size parameter, wherein the plurality of tiles corresponds to a plurality of regions within the image; compresses the plurality of tiles into a plurality of compressed tiles, wherein each tile is compressed independently; generates a tile-based representation of the image, wherein the tile-based representation comprises an array of the plurality of compressed tiles; and stores the tile-based representation of the image on the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Christina R. Strong, Vishakha Gupta, Luis Carlos Maria Remis, Kushal Datta, Arun Raghunath
  • Patent number: 11443483
    Abstract: Systems, methods and instructions for creating building models of physical structures is disclosed. The building model may be a collection of floors defined by outlines containing regions that may be offset relative to a main region, and a collection of connectors. Connectors may have connection points for tracking, routing and sizing. Connectors may indicate elevation changes through georeferenced structural features. Signal elements may also be features that provide corrections when tracking. Feature descriptors are data that describes the structural configuration and signal elements enabling them to be matched to previously collected data in a database. User interface elements assist a user of a tracking device in collecting floor information, structural features and signal features and validating certain collected information based on previously known information. The height of floors may also be inferred based on sensor data from the tracking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TRX SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Travis Young, Daniel Hakim, Daniel Franchy, Jared Napora, John Karvounis, Jonathan Fetter Degges, Tim Wang, Benjamin Funk, Carole Teolis, Carol Politi, Stuart Woodbury
  • Patent number: 11417009
    Abstract: Systems and methods for object measurement in accordance with aspects of the disclosure are described. One embodiment of the invention includes a system including a processor, a memory in communication with the processor, an input device, and an image capture device, wherein the processor obtains image data using the image capture device in response to input received from the input device indicating that image data should be captured, identifies a set of feature points within the obtained image data, completes the obtaining of the image data based on the set of feature points identified and in response to input received from the input device indicating that image data should no longer be captured, generates a model based on the set of feature points, measures the generated model with respect to a reference plane, and provides an indication of the measured size of the generated model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Kayak Software Corporation
    Inventors: Kaijian Gao, Trevor Glenn Elkins, Lauren Anne Ko, Rebecca Chen, Giorgos C. Zacharia
  • Patent number: 11415723
    Abstract: A device and method for projecting a light pattern is provided. The device includes a processor system and a housing. A three-dimensional (3D) measurement device is operably coupled to the housing that measures a distance to a surface in an environment. A laser projector is operably coupled to the housing, the laser projector having a light source and a pair of movable mirrors, the light source positioned to emit light onto the pair of movable mirrors. Wherein the processor system is responsive to non-transitory executable computer instructions for: determining 3D coordinates of points on the surface with the 3D measurement device; selecting a pattern; causing the laser projector to emit a beam of light and moving the pair of mirrors to generate the pattern on the surface; and adjusting the pattern based at least in part on the 3D coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: FARO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jens Trollmann, Stefan Mueller
  • Patent number: 11416196
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory unit that stores set contents that are obtained by changing standard set contents, a reception unit that receives information regarding the set contents, a search unit that searches, based on the information received by the reception unit, contents stored in the memory unit for the changed set contents that correspond to the information, and a display control unit that performs control in such a manner as to display a search result obtained by the search unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Masahiro Iwata
  • Patent number: 11392807
    Abstract: The image processing apparatus includes: a color conversion unit configured to convert an input color space of the document image data into a device-dependent color space specified by the plurality of color materials; and an output unit configured to output the document image data converted into the device-dependent color space, and the color conversion unit performs, in a case where the document image data includes a first kind of object and a second kind of object different from the first kind, the conversion by selectively applying a first color conversion method of converting data corresponding to the first kind of object into data represented in a first color space and a second color conversion method of converting data corresponding to the second kind of object into data represented in a second color space different from the first color space within one print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuru Uratani
  • Patent number: 11386587
    Abstract: A line drawing automatic coloring method according to the present disclosure includes: acquiring line drawing data of a target to be colored; receiving at least one local style designation for applying a selected local style to at least one place of the acquired line drawing data; and performing coloring processing reflecting the local style designation on the line drawing data based on a learned model for coloring in which it is learned in advance using the line drawing data and the local style designation as inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: PREFERRED NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventor: Eiichi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11358385
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that prints a foil stamping image on a recording material in accordance with a job for printing the foil stamping image, the foil stamping image being a target to which foil is transferred in foil stamp printing; and a hardware processor that trims an image on a page identical to at least one page included in the job such that the image on the identical page does not overlap an image adjustment mark that is printed for adjusting an image to be overprinted, and causes the image former to print, together with the job, the identical page having the trimmed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Ken Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11348301
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a method for transforming a motion style of an avatar from a first style to a second style. The program and method include: retrieving, by a processor from a storage device, an avatar depicting motion in a first style; receiving user input selecting a second style; obtaining, based on the user input, a trained machine learning model that performs a non-linear transformation of motion from the first style to the second style; and applying the obtained trained machine learning model to the retrieved avatar to transform the avatar from depicting motion in the first style to depicting motion in the second style.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Harrison Jesse Smith, Chen Cao, Yingying Wang
  • Patent number: 11343388
    Abstract: An image forming device that executes a preview display of an image to be printed, including: a projector; a panel display; a receiver that receives an instruction indicating whether or not to implement security in the preview display; and a controller that, when an instruction to implement security is not received, controls the projector to execute the preview display according to a first mode that represents the image to be printed at a display area equal to or larger than a defined size, and when an instruction to implement security is received, controls the projector and the panel display to execute the preview display according to a second mode that represents the image to be printed at a display area less than the defined size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Shinno
  • Patent number: 11335109
    Abstract: A computing device for document authentication and a method to operate the same are provided. The computing device includes one or more processors, a securing subsystem configured to generate at least one unique identification to one or more users, a registration subsystem configured to enable the one or more users to register the one or more documents upon using the at least one unique identification, an encryption subsystem configured to encrypt the one or more documents, a hash subsystem configured to hash each of the one or more documents, a digital signature subsystem configured to generate a unique digital signature associated with each of one or more hashed documents, a private network subsystem configured to upload the one or more hashed documents into a Hyperledger of a blockchain platform, a validation subsystem configured to validate the one or more documents and to provide services associated with validated documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Inventors: Dominique Godefroy, Arun Moothedath
  • Patent number: 11335297
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for displaying projection picture and a method for rotating projection picture, comprising following steps: A: using a main control chip of a display to receive a picture signal parameter of a handheld terminal; B: the main control chip determining the black edge and calculating the starting position of a display picture by detecting the intensity of display signal inputted from the handheld terminal; C: obtaining the width of the display picture by calculation, and at the same time, directly obtaining the height of the display signal by signal detection of the main control chip; and D: using the function calculation provided by a control unit to enlarge the picture to a proportional or full-screen output with the handheld terminal. After adopting the above method, the display provides a picture with “full screen without having black edges” or “small black edges” to enhance the visual experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN YINGCHUANG TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jie Li
  • Patent number: 11334299
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a memory, and a processor configured to: read a first image of a sheet in a state in which the sheet is held on a sheet holding unit, the sheet being a sheet on which an image has been formed; detect a symbol from the first image of the sheet which has been read, the symbol indicating an orientation of the first image; and, when the orientation of the first image indicated by the detected symbol is different from an orientation of a second image that is to be formed on the sheet, perform a correction process of matching the orientation of the first image with the orientation of the second image that is to be formed on the sheet, the orientation of the first image being indicated by the detected symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Nagamasa Misu, Seiji Shiraki, Ryosuke Tsuji, Yushiro Tanaka