Patents Examined by Marivelisse Santiago-Cordero
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Patent number: 9299016Abstract: A misregistration correcting apparatus form an edge list showing information of edges of one scan line from stored drawing objects, updates the formed edge list, and converts the formed edge list into a bit map of one scan line. The updating comprises a first edge list updating that updates the formed edge list on the basis of setting information of a trapping based on characteristics of a printing apparatus and an edge list of a one-line preceding line of the one scan line, and a second edge list updating that updates the edge list on the basis of the trapping setting information and a span showing an outline of the drawing object on the edge list.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2011Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomoyuki Furuya
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Patent number: 9298409Abstract: Upon startup of an OS, the present invention obtains an entry of a StatusMonitor key from all printer driver setting information subscribed in a registry by means of a subscriber (S0), and if a value thereof is 1, obtains an entry of a key including “Notification”. If a value of an array element 0 indicates activation of notification, the present invention obtains a character string of an array element 1 as an event type, and makes a Subscribe request to an image forming apparatus (S3). The present invention stores a subscription ID being returned, and makes an Unsubscribe request to the image forming apparatus for all subscription IDs thus stored, upon shut-down of the OS.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Takashi Oguma, Takehiko Asano
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Patent number: 9300831Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided with a book data acquisition unit which acquires a book data item including a plurality of image data items related to covers and individual pages of a book, a length acquisition unit which acquires a longitudinal length and a lateral length of the book based on lengths of two sides of the plurality of image data items included in the book data item, and an image data determination unit which compares the longitudinal and lateral lengths of the book to the lengths of the two sides of each of the image data items to determine the image data item determined to include neither one page nor two facing pages as the image data item including a spine image.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: PFU LIMITEDInventors: Chieko Murai, Mitsuhiro Iwase, Masato Izumi
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Patent number: 9293151Abstract: Visual information is used to alter or set an operating parameter of an audio signal processor, other than a beamformer. A digital camera captures visual information about a scene that includes a human speaker and/or a listener. The visual information is analyzed to ascertain information about acoustics of a room. A distance between the speaker and a microphone may be estimated, and this distance estimate may be used to adjust an overall gain of the system. Distances among, and locations of, the speaker, the listener, the microphone, a loudspeaker and/or a sound-reflecting surface may be estimated. These estimates may be used to estimate reverberations within the room and adjust aggressiveness of an anti-reverberation filter, based on an estimated ratio of direct to indirect (reverberated) sound energy expected to reach the microphone.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2011Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: Tobias Herbig, Tobias Wolff, Markus Buck
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Patent number: 9292154Abstract: Synchronizing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) operation includes receiving operation information of the GUI operation performed on a first machine. The operation information includes object information and action information. The object information is in a first language and indicates a GUI object to which the GUI operation is directed. The action information indicates an action performed by the GUI operation on the GUI object. The object information in the first language is converted to object information in a second language. A GUI object in a GUI displayed on a second machine is identified according to the object information in the second language. The action indicated by the action information is performed on the identified GUI object.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2013Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Xiao Feng Ji, Zhong Gang Shen
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Patent number: 9292254Abstract: A system, method and computer program for performing voice commands on a mobile device and presenting the results on an interactive timeline is disclosed. A user may utter a voice command into the microphone of their mobile device while an application is running. The voice command is processed to derive the intention of the user, specifically by determining the domain, at least one task and at least one parameter for the task from the voice command. A services component performs the task identified and presents the results on the mobile device screen. In various embodiments, the results are presented on a timeline and may be grouped together by domains and sorted by the time that the results were obtained. A search history view may also be viewed that includes search results sorted chronologically each of which is represented graphically by an icon that represents the category of each search.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Maluuba Inc.Inventors: James Simpson, Sam Pasupalak, Mohamed Musbah, Jennifer Lee
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Patent number: 9282205Abstract: Provided is an electronic apparatus including a first controller, a second controller controlled by the first controller, a device controlled by the second controller, and a storage area, wherein the second controller includes a detector, a situation data writing unit, an update notification transmission unit that transmits an update notification to the first controller, and a situation image data writing unit, and wherein the first controller includes a reading unit, a generating unit, a display unit, and a display completion notification transmission unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroshi Sakaida
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Patent number: 9280538Abstract: Provided herein is a sentence hiding and displaying system comprising: an image creating interface receiving an input of information on an original image, a plurality of sentences corresponding to the original image, and a language that needs to be hidden; an image creator configured to determine a sentence that needs to be hidden based on the plurality of sentences and the language that needs to be hidden, and to create on the original image an image where the sentence that needs to be hidden is hidden; a sentence display interface configured to receive an input of information on a language selected by a user; and a sentence extractor and displayer configured to parse a sentence expressed in the selected language of among sentences that need to be hidden based on the hidden image and the selected language, and to display the sentence expressed in the selected language.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Sang Kwang Lee, Ki Young Kim, Jin Kyeong Kim, Jin Tae Oh
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Patent number: 9280728Abstract: While calibration is being executed in an image forming apparatus, it is not possible to execute printing until the calibration is completed, and therefore, usability of a user is poor. An image forming apparatus including Media Direct Print function to print data stored in a portable storage medium. The image forming apparatus includes a connection detection unit configured to detect connection of the portable storage medium and a control unit configured to control calibration from being executed in response to the connection detection unit detecting the connection of the portable storage medium.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Keiko Kamoi
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Patent number: 9275632Abstract: A method, apparatus and non-transitory computer readable storage medium, in one embodiment, interpreting at least one input from a user via a wireless device, receiving at least one user account with the at least one input, deriving at least one representation of user intent, identifying at least one task based on the at least one representation of user intent, contacting at least one service to perform the identified at least one task and synthesizing speech to communicate a result of the contact to the wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Gerald M. McCobb, David Stirk
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Patent number: 9277069Abstract: To display a real image forming apparatus together with job information about printing jobs accumulated in this image forming apparatus. A mobile terminal acquires an identification number of an image-captured image forming apparatus by image recognition processing of image data. Further, mobile terminal generates a screen layout corresponding to a detection location of image forming apparatus obtained from the image data. Further, mobile terminal transmits, to a server, an inquiry request for address information, including the identification number. Server has address information about each image forming apparatus. When server receives the inquiry request for address information, it identifies image forming apparatus corresponding to the identification number, and transmits an IP address of identified image forming apparatus to mobile terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Dai Shigenobu
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Patent number: 9274808Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a volatile main memory, a first non-volatile memory for storing a plurality of types of partial snap shot images, a second non-volatile memory from which information can be read faster than from the first non-volatile memory, for storing an entire snap shot image, and a processor. The processor reads a partial snap shot image corresponding to a state after change from the first non-volatile memory and updates a corresponding portion of the entire snap shot image in the second non-volatile memory.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2011Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Tomoji Tanaka
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Patent number: 9268505Abstract: A process management system includes an information processing apparatus including a computer that executes a program to perform a managing process. The managing process includes managing user management information, managing coordinate organization information to manage groups of organization information, managing a process performed by processing devices by acquiring, when a user managed by organization information, upper limit management information and user information of the user who makes the process request, from a desired processing device managed by the organization information of the group of organization information, and determining whether the process requested by the user is executable within the upper limit amount of process for the user based on the acquired upper limit management information.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Masaya Masuda
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Patent number: 9270856Abstract: Provided is an image reading apparatus, including: a placing member on which an original is to be placed; a reading section arranged so as to be opposed to the original across the placing member and reading an image of the original placed on the placing member; a casing which supports an outer peripheral edge portion of the placing member; and a support member supporting a portion other than the outer peripheral edge portion of the placing member, the support member including an abutment portion abutting against the casing, the support member being capable of supporting the placing member under a state in which the abutment portion abuts against the casing.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takeshi Niimura
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Patent number: 9270858Abstract: Computer readable instructions, when executed by a processor, may cause an information processing apparatus to determine whether one or more of status information including specific apparatus identification information are received during a first time period around the time of receiving a reading instruction. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the processor, may cause the information processing apparatus to determine whether one or more of specific image reading apparatuses identified by one or more of specific apparatus identification information can execute a reading operation represented by acquired setting information from a memory, using one or more of a plurality of function information associated with the one or more of specific apparatus identification information, and transmit a determination result to an operation apparatus based on determining whether the one or more of specific image reading apparatuses can execute the reading operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kentaro Arai
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Patent number: 9258447Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of receiving a raster image from an image processing controller includes: a transmitting unit transmitting device information of the image forming apparatus to an external device via the image processing controller; a determining unit determining whether the image processing controller is in a first power condition or in a second power condition consuming lower power than the first power condition; and a control unit allowing the transmitting unit to transmit the device information to the external device in a case where the determining unit determines that the image processing controller is in the first power condition, and in a case where the determining unit determines that the image processing controller is in the second power condition, restrict the transmitting unit to transmit the device information to the external device until the image processing controller returns to the first power condition from the second power condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2014Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Junichi Yamakawa
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Patent number: 9251141Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training an entity identification model. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a plurality of complete sentences that each include entity text that references a first entity; for each complete sentence in the plurality of complete sentences: providing a first portion of the complete sentence as input to an entity identification model that determines a predicted entity for the first portion of the complete sentence, the first portion being less than all of the complete sentence; comparing the predicted entity to the first entity; and updating the entity identification model based on the comparison of the predicted entity to the first entity.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Maxim Gubin, Sangsoo Sung, Krishna Bharat, Kenneth W. Dauber
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Patent number: 9250844Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shigeru Hiroki
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Patent number: 9247088Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided that includes a first casing disposed on a first side in a first direction, and a second casing disposed on a second side in the first direction, the second casing containing an image reading unit, a driver driving the image reading unit, and a driver compartment configured to accommodate the driver and disposed at an end portion of the second casing on a third side in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the first casing containing an image forming unit, a control board electrically connected with the driver and the image reading unit and configured to control the image reading unit, and a board compartment configured to accommodate at least a part of the control board and disposed at an end portion of the first casing on a fourth side opposite to the third side in the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hirotaka Tatematsu
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Patent number: 9235368Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit, a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to store information in a first region of the memory as a first default device corresponding to a first job mode and to store information in a second region of the memory as a second default device corresponding to a second job mode. The controller is configured to read out the first default device from the first region of the memory when receiving a first job mode processing, and transmit command data to the read out first default device. The controller is further configured to read out the second default device from the second region of the memory when receiving a second job mode processing, and transmit command data to the read out second default device.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Norihiko Asai