Patents Examined by Lennin R Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11934709
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to receive, from an external apparatus, a request to output a file to be output by an information terminal, identify, in cooperation with the external apparatus, an information terminal that satisfies a predetermined condition among plural information terminals that are candidates for a target to which the file is to be output, and transmit, to the identified information terminal, first information to be used to identify a location at which the file is stored before a user requests the identified information terminal to display information regarding the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Ryuichi Horigane
  • Patent number: 11893293
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a printing system capable of supporting a plurality of printable areas for one paper size. One embodiment of the present invention is a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform a control method in an information processing apparatus including: first printing control software; and second printing control software that converts first format print data output by the first printing control software into second format print data, and the control method includes: a first creation step of creating raster data based on the first format print data; a medium determination step of performing determination of whether a printing-target medium is a medium that needs a margin larger than a regular size; and a margin insertion step of performing margin insertion processing for raster data created at the first creation step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toru Kohata
  • Patent number: 11878504
    Abstract: A plate-making method for manufacturing a printing plate includes: manufacturing the printing plate based on a knockout method in which knockouts of halftone dots in one color are formed, and halftone dots in the other color are overprinted onto positions of the knockouts; for each of pixels, when a sum of a halftone dot area ratio of the one color and a halftone dot area ratio of the other color is smaller than 100%, forming a gap from a knockout in the one color around a halftone dot in the other color; and for each of pixels, when the sum of the halftone dot area ratio of the one color and the halftone dot area ratio of the other color is greater than 100%, forming an overmask such that the halftone dot in the other color penetrates a periphery of the halftone dot in the one color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Yamamoto, Ryota Nagatsuka, Keisuke Sanuki, Iori Takatori, Yukiko Saito
  • Patent number: 11854534
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Erik Mcdermott, Vincent O. Vanhoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A. U. Bacchiani
  • Patent number: 11843735
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on each of media; a plurality of sheet feeding cassettes each configured to store the media; a media sensor which is provided on a conveyance path through which the media are fed from any of the plurality of sheet feeding cassettes to the image forming unit, and is configured to detect a type of the conveyed media; a memory configured to store, for each sheet feeding cassette, the type of media stored in each of the plurality of sheet feeding cassettes; and a controller configured to output, to a display, a selection screen for selecting a sheet feeding cassette in which media to be used in calibration of adjusting a density of the image to be formed by the image forming unit are stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Katsuya Nakama
  • Patent number: 11836406
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus transmits, to a printing apparatus, attribute information regarding a designated print job, out of at least one print job registered together with attribute information, in response to a request, from the printing apparatus, for the attribute information regarding the designated print job, receives a job fetch request from the printing apparatus together with password information input to the printing apparatus in accordance with a password attribute included in the attribute information, verifies the received password information with a value of the password attribute included in the attribute information regarding the designated print job, and transmits the designated print job and the attribute information regarding the designated print job to the printing apparatus if the verification is successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 11811980
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus capable of communicating with an image processing server, the electronic apparatus including transmitting means for transmitting, to the image processing server, an image and information indicating an image processing parameter to be used when the image processing server performs image processing on the image, and controlling means for controlling display of a guidance indicating that an image obtained by applying the image processing by the image processing server to the image is to be checked on another apparatus from the electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryo Takahashi, Satoshi Masuda, Yuichiro Ishitsuka
  • Patent number: 11659125
    Abstract: Provided is technology by which an information processing device having an OS standard printing program installed therein causes a printer to perform collate printing without applying a load to the printer. In a case where a print instruction that causes a printer to execute printing of an image is output from an editing application to a general-purpose print program installed in an OS to cause the printer to execute collate printing in a job based on the print instruction an auxiliary program causes a CPU of a PC to acquire print data of one copy rasterized based on the image having the plurality of pages, and to cause the PC to transmit the acquired print data of the one copy to the printer as a transmission destination one copy by one copy over the N copies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 11652946
    Abstract: An optical scanning device includes a light source, a deflector, a random number generator, a selection part, a random number assignment part and an exposure control part. The light source includes a plurality of light emitting parts arranged in a predetermined direction at fixed intervals in a sub-scanning direction. The random number assignment part is configured to assign a random number sequence to each light emitting part constituting a set of target light emitting parts as an index for specifying a timing at which a light emitting time of the set of target light emitting parts is set to a correction value different from a reference value and to update the assignment of the random number sequence at a random number update period. The random number update period coincides with a scanning period of each light emitting part constituting the set of target light emitting parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Takayuki Mashimo
  • Patent number: 11557277
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Erik McDermott, Vincent O. VanHoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A. U. Bacchiani
  • Patent number: 11321029
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, which communicates with a plurality of communication apparatuses each belonging to one of a plurality of groups, receives a predetermined signal sent from each of the plurality of communication apparatuses, specifies a first group, among the plurality of groups, that satisfies a predetermined condition, and executes processing based on the predetermined signal sent from a communication apparatus belonging to the first group satisfying the predetermined condition, and does not execute the processing based on the predetermined signal sent from a communication apparatus belonging to a second group different from the first group. The first group is specified on the basis of that the first group includes greater than or equal to a predetermined percentage or greater than or equal to a predetermined number of communication apparatuses that sent the predetermined signal received by the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuru Konji
  • Patent number: 11102374
    Abstract: In an information processing terminal, a processor receiving identification information from another program. The identification information is for identifying an image processing operation. The processor performs a first determination process determining whether the specified apparatus is capable of executing the image processing operation identified by the identification information. The processor performs a first display process displaying determination information indicating a result of the first determination process. The processor receives operation condition information from the external program in a case where the first determination process determines that the specified apparatus is capable of executing the image processing operation. The operation condition information indicates a condition for executing the image processing operation. The processor transmits a command to the specified apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu Sato, Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Patent number: 10976974
    Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system includes a print controller including one or more processors to receive print data, rasterize the print data into bitmap data, analyze objects in each page of bitmap data to determine sizes of objects and generate mapping data for each page of bitmap data that maps locations of page bitmap data having same size objects, a print engine to print the bitmap data to a medium and a print verification system to capture one or more images of the medium as print verification data and to detect one or more defects in the print verification data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Carl Michael Dennison
  • Patent number: 10805476
    Abstract: A program causes, when executed, a terminal apparatus to perform operations including: receiving a target signal from a target scanner, the target signal being sequentially transmitted from the target scanner after a placement operation of placing an original document of a scan target is performed at the target scanner, the target signal not being transmitted from the target scanner before the placement operation is performed at the target scanner; in response to receiving the target signal from the target scanner, acquiring target communication information for performing wireless communication between the terminal apparatus and the target scanner through a target network; in response to acquiring the target communication information, transmitting a scan request to the target scanner through the target network by using the target communication information; and in response to transmitting the scan request to the target scanner, receiving scan data from the target scanner through the target network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Susumu Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 10606534
    Abstract: A server system, a terminal device, an operating information collection system, a program, a server system operating method, and a terminal device operating method communicate information for appropriately displaying the time until printing is completed when using a terminal device to monitor the time until a job on the monitored device will be completed. A server system 7 is a server system that collects operating information of a monitored device, and includes a communicator 731 and a processor 71. The processor 71 causes the communicator 731 to send job completion time information to a terminal device 9, and when a specific event causing a change in the time until job completion occurs, sends correction information for the job completion time information to the terminal device 9 by push notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Yamada
  • Patent number: 10372387
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first server, a second server, and a third server. The first server generates first use log information indicating a log of uses of an output device collected for a first time period. The second server generates second use log information indicating a log of uses of the output device for a second time period, from the first use log information of the output device for the first time, the second time period being longer than the first time period, and sends a notification indicating completion of generation of the second use log information. The third server generates information to be provided to a user, using the second use log information of the output device for the second time period that is obtained from the second server, in response to the notification indicating completion of generation of the second use log information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Shohei Arai
  • Patent number: 7876819
    Abstract: This disclosure describes rate control techniques that can improve video coding based on a “two-pass” approach. The first pass codes a video sequence using a first set of quantization parameters (QPs) for the purpose of estimating rate-distortion characteristics of the video sequence based on the statistics of the first pass. A second set of QPs can then be defined for a second coding pass. The estimated rate-distortion characteristics of the first pass are used to select QPs for the second pass in a manner that minimizes distortion of the frames of the video sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Haohong Wang, Narendranath Malayath
  • Patent number: 7843600
    Abstract: In an information processing method, input color data indicating a plurality of color components including a black color component is converted into output color data that indicates a plurality of color components including a black color component. A relationship between lightness levels and simple black colors is determined for an output device based on the characteristics of the output device. When input color data indicates a simple black color, output color data for the simple black color having a lightness level equivalent to the lightness level of the input color data is determined based on the relationship between lightness levels and simple black colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Manabu Ohga
  • Patent number: 7719703
    Abstract: A print control program executed by an information processing apparatus, which spools print data created and spooled via a print data creation module such as a printer driver again and concurrently performs the re-spooling and output of the print data to a resending destination or an alternate device. It is thereby possible to speed up a throughput of the output on alternation of printing or resending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Kurotsu, Masamichi Oshima, Hidekazu Morooka, Takashi Yagita, Koichiro Wanda, Koji Kikuchi, Kei Kitagata, Hiroyuki Kayama, Kenichi Shirai
  • Patent number: 7719710
    Abstract: An image forming system, which forms an image relating to subject data on a recording medium having a holding unit holding identification information specific to the storage medium, including: a detection unit which detects identification information held by the holding unit of an arbitrary recording medium on which an image is recorded; and a control unit which acquires subject data corresponding to the detected identification information and forms an image relating to the acquired subject data on the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichiro Suzuki