Patents Examined by Marivelisse Santiago-Cordero
  • Patent number: 9191455
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus registers a Web application provided by a server. When receiving an instruction to select the registered Web application, the image forming apparatus acquires information for performing the Web application in response to the received selection instruction, and stores the information as cache information. When receiving an instruction to cancel the registration of the Web application, the image forming apparatus cancels the registration of the Web application in response to the received instruction, and deletes the cache information corresponding to the Web application in which the registration is cancelled in the stored pieces of cache information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kawabata
  • Patent number: 9189713
    Abstract: A letter printing system includes: a data processing unit for receiving an instruction to print document data containing letter data of a plurality of letters, generating print data and outputting the print data to a printing unit; and the printing unit for performing, for each letter, printing on a paper sheet for envelope and a paper sheet for enclosure according to the print data and outputting the paper sheets in the order of printing, wherein the data processing unit determines a letter boundary of each letter in the document data and sequentially outputs print data of each letter to the printing unit, and the printing unit adjusts the order of pieces of page data forming the print data of each letter according to a predetermined order of output of the paper sheet for envelope and the paper sheet for enclosure for performing inserting and sealing operation, and performs printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Riso Kagaku Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kurose, Toshio Akiyama
  • Patent number: 9185647
    Abstract: Provided is an HNB gateway device capable of, while in an operation in a sleep mode, deactivating function units other than functions units associated with a mode check message and a sleep mode release request message from another HNB-GW, and thereby enabling a power saving operation. An HNB gateway device (2) includes a function to obtain a usage rate of the HNB gateway device, relays signals between a switching center and an HNB, and transits to a sleep mode when the usage rate reaches or falls below a predetermined value. The HNB gateway device includes means (HNB-GW list management unit 23) for changing, upon transition to the sleep mode, an HNB gateway list in the HNB performing HNB registration on the HNB gateway device using RPC:SetParameterValues from an HMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideumi Hosobe, Masato Shindo
  • Patent number: 9185264
    Abstract: A print control device acquires image data. Each pixel data has a gradation value represented by a first number of levels of gradation. The print control device acquires a first error matrix and a second error matrix and generates print image data representing an image by performing a halftone process on the image data using the first and second error matrices to convert each gradation value in the image data into a set of dot data. Each dot data represents one of a second number of types of dot formation. The second number is smaller than the first number. The print control device uses the first error matrix for pixel data corresponding to a pixel to be printed in a forward direction. The print control device uses the second error matrix for pixel data corresponding to a pixel to be printed in a reverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasunari Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9183473
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of buffers, an auxiliary storage unit, a data receiving unit, a data transmitting unit, an asynchronous data write unit, a data prefetch unit, a data deletion unit, and an image forming unit. The data receiving unit inputs data into one of the plurality of buffers. The data transmitting unit outputs the stored data. The asynchronous data write unit stores the stored data into the auxiliary storage unit. The data prefetch unit prefetches, if no data to be output exists in another one of the plurality of buffers, the data stored in the auxiliary storage unit to the another one of the plurality of buffers. The data deletion unit deletes the data, transmitting of which has been completed. The image forming unit performs image formation for the data as page data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hara
  • Patent number: 9176686
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus transmits, when a function which cooperates with a function providing apparatus is added, information on the added function to a management server, and changes a failure monitoring setting according to the returned monitoring condition. If a failure occurs, the image forming apparatus generates, if the failure is attributable to the function providing apparatus, failure information indicating that the failure is attributable to the function providing apparatus, and otherwise, the image forming apparatus generates failure information on the failure to transmit to the management server. Upon receiving the information on the added function from the image forming apparatus, the management server returns the monitoring condition corresponding to the added function to arrange for maintenance of the image forming apparatus. If the failure is attributable to the function providing apparatus, the management server does not arrange for maintenance of the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 9176945
    Abstract: Provided are computer implemented methods and systems for extracting data. According to a method, a message associated with one of several accounts is received. The message is processed to detect one or more key words. A template related to the one or more key words is determined. The template is associates one or more portions of the message with one or more tags. Based on the determining, the data from the message is extracted using the template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Easilydo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikael Berner, Kesava Neeli, Yuanhao Wu, Guibin Zhou, Liangping Li
  • Patent number: 9170763
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus in which an OS is executed that provides a first UI environment (touchscreen UI) and a second UI environment different from the first UI environment, is provided in which, if identification information of a peripheral device connected to a communication network has been obtained when the first UI environment is provided, a device control application for controlling the peripheral device is obtained from a service that manages applications operable in the first UI environment, using the identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 9170761
    Abstract: A computer generated method disclosed. The method includes receiving a print job, analyzing the print job data stream, determining if the print job data stream includes a command matching one or more pre-defined criteria and disabling generation of a separator page for the print job if the print job data stream includes a command matching one or more pre-defined criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, LTD.
    Inventors: Robert F. Jessen, Mary G. Cochran, Marius Stefan, Lucian Ioan Olariu, Silviu Nanau
  • Patent number: 9172828
    Abstract: An image display apparatus connected to a printer, for displaying an image to be printed by the printer, includes display section for displaying taken image data as a thumbnail, control section for generating edited image data by editing the taken image data selected by a user and generating an additional thumbnail of the edited image data, and select section for selecting a taken image displayed on the display means to be edited, an editing operation for the taken image, and a print image. As the taken image is edited, the control means displays the additional thumbnail of the edited image data in addition to a thumbnail of the taken image data on the display means to allow each of the thumbnail and the additional thumbnail to be selected as the print image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Kano, Kohei Sakura, Kyoko Sugizaki
  • Patent number: 9160862
    Abstract: A telephone conference system and method are disclosed. The system includes: a terminal state scanning module (2) configured to acquire one or more terminal numbers corresponding to a user who is supposed to participate in a conference, and acquire a terminal state corresponding to each of the one or more terminal numbers; and a service processing module (5) configured to select at beginning of conference establishment, according to a preset routing principle and the terminal state corresponding to the each of the one or more terminal numbers, a terminal number which meets a requirement from the one or more terminal numbers, and make a call to the selected terminal number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Guorong Zheng
  • Patent number: 9160893
    Abstract: A color gamut is extended, and thus high color and gradation are realized. An image recording system includes: a conversion unit for converting input color signals constituting an input image into signals constituting a group of recording material overlapped structures that includes a recording material overlapped structure in which at least two or more recording materials are overlapped to form pixels; and a recording unit for recording the recording materials on a recording medium in accordance with the converted signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takuya Shimada
  • Patent number: 9141784
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which implements a printing control function for generating printing control information for causing an image forming apparatus to execute printing outputting is disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes a core unit and an extension unit which can be added after the core unit is installed. The information processing apparatus further includes a launch processing unit which launches the extension unit; an extension function operation information requesting unit; an extension function operation information encrypting unit; an extension function operation information decrypting unit; and a printing control information generating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Akiyoshi Ono
  • Patent number: 9135528
    Abstract: A user inputs information, such as a user identification (ID), on a printer by using an operation unit included in the printer. The printer inputs a print request for printing an intermediate print job corresponding to the user ID to the printer driver of an application server. When the request is received from the printer, a print request receiving function of the printer driver starts a series of print processing. The printer driver extracts an intermediate print job corresponding to a target user ID stored on a print job storage memory. A print setting final determination function finally determines print setting information to the extracted intermediate print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomonori Minagawa
  • Patent number: 9129194
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first retrieval unit that retrieves a table of document data, an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium in accordance with the document data, a second retrieval unit that retrieves a cumulative amount of images formed by the image forming unit, a third retrieval unit that retrieves a threshold value of the cumulative amount of images formed by the image forming unit, and a display unit that displays a selection screen that allows a user to select document data forming an image from the document data included in the table. If the cumulative amount does not exceed the threshold value, the display unit displays a screen including a batch selection screen. If the cumulative amount exceeds the threshold value, the display unit displays an individual selection screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Akahira, Kazuya Kawabata
  • Patent number: 9122976
    Abstract: The printing device is a printing device having a reception part receiving print data, a print job information storage storing print job information of the print data, an image data conversion part concerting the print data to image data, a print queue generation part generating print queue information administrating the print data on the basis of page upon conversion from the print data to image data, a print job ID storage storing the print job ID at the time of an order when job cancellation is ordered, and a control part comparing the print job ID stored in the print job ID storage with the print job ID at the time of execution in execution of job cancellation and cancelling the print job ID when the print job IDs are equal. The printing device allows job cancellation to be specified without multiple panel operations in ordering job cancellation order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignees: CASIO ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9111203
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that forms an image according to light emitted from a light source is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a first image processor that performs image processing on image data having a first resolution and outputs the resulting image data; a resolution converter that acquires the image data having the first resolution output from the first image processor and converts the image data to image data having a second resolution that is higher than the first resolution; a modulation signal generator that modulates the image data having the second resolution according to a clock signal to thereby generate a modulation signal; a light source driver that drives the light source according to the modulation signal; and a second image processor that performs image processing on the image data having the second resolution to be modulated to the modulation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Muneaki Iwata, Masaaki Ishida, Atsufumi Omori, Hayato Fujita
  • Patent number: 9104351
    Abstract: A non-transitory printing control program product is disclosed. The printing control program product causes a computer to function as a printing data generating unit which generates printing data for normal printing and printing data for trial printing such that the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing are printed by the same printing apparatus, the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing being generated from the same submitted manuscript data; and a printing data management unit which receives the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing and which causes the same printing apparatus to print the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing in accordance with the normal printing condition and the trial printing condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Mochizuki, Daigo Miyaguchi
  • Patent number: 9100510
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus include a light source; an image sensor configured to output an image signal of an object illuminated by the light source; a first calculating unit configured to calculate a third light amount based on a difference between a first image signal output from the image sensor when the light source illuminates a reference member as the object at a first light quantity and a second image signal output from the image sensor when the light source illuminates the reference member at a second light quantity and a difference between the first light quantity and the second light quantity; and a light quantity setting unit configured to set a light quantity at which the light source illuminates a document as the object to the third light quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Daisuke Nikaku
  • Patent number: 9098216
    Abstract: In one embodiment, enablement data, indicative of an enablement state of a functionality at a network-connected printer, is received from the printer. Fulfillment data, indicative of a fulfillment state of a condition to the enablement of the functionality at the printer, is received. It is determined whether the enablement data is consistent with the fulfillment data. Responsive to determining that the enablement data is inconsistent with the fulfillment data, a change instruction is sent to the printer over a network to cause a change in the enablement state to another state that is consistent with the fulfillment data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: John H Oleinik, Shiyun Yie, Andrew J Binder