Patents Examined by Michael L Burleson
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Patent number: 11557032Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for calibrated testing of a printing of an article. The apparatus includes a data providing device adapted to provide printing data for the article from product data of the article and a camera device adapted to capture an image of an article printed by a printing process and to provide it as image data. The apparatus also includes a database device adapted to provide calibration data for the camera device and a computer device adapted to perform a quality check of the printing process based on a comparison of the printing data with the image data taking into account the calibration data.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Inventor: Marcus Niederhofer
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Patent number: 11557140Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for correcting extracted document information based on generated confidence and correctness scores. In an embodiment, a document correcting system may receive a document and document information that represents information extracted from the document. The document correcting system may determine the correctness of the document information by processing the document to generate a character grid representing textual information and spatial arrangements for the text within the document. The document correcting system may apply a convolutional neural network on character grid and the document information. The convolutional neural network may output corrected document information, a correctness value indicating the possible errors in the document information, and a confidence value indicating a likelihood of the possible errors.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: SAP SEInventor: Christian Reisswig
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Patent number: 11537340Abstract: An editing device is configured to edit print data including first print data and second print data via a display device for creating a composite label with a printing device. The composite label includes a first label and a second label and is created by superposing the second label over the first label. A set of program instructions, when executed by a controller of the editing device, causes the editing device to perform displaying an editing screen on the display device. The editing screen has a first region, a second region, and a composite region. The displaying displays a first label image based on the first print data in the first region, a second label image based on the second print data in the second region, and a composite label image formed by superposing the second label image over the first label image in the composite region.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Misato Osuka, Ryuichi Kanda, Masashi Iwamoto, Yuichiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 11528372Abstract: In a system, a setting window including at least a preview region in which a scanned image is previewed and a text field to which attribute information on the scanned image is input is displayed, when a character region within the scanned image previewed in the setting window is moused over, control to preliminarily display a character string corresponding to the moused-over character region in the text field is performed, and when the moused-over character region is clicked by a mouse, control to fix the character string preliminarily displayed in the text field is performed.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ken Tokita
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Patent number: 11496647Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yusuke Machii, Takuji Tahara, Yusuke Yamaura
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Patent number: 11496648Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories, the one or more memories including one or more programs. The one or more programs cause the one or more processors (a) to acquire first shape data that represents a three-dimensional shape of unevenness, (b) to generate edge data for specifying a first area that corresponds to an edge of a convex portion and a second area that does not correspond to the edge of the convex potion in the unevenness, based on the first shape data, and (c) to generate, based on the edge data, data to form the first area and not the second area on a recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hideki Kubo
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Patent number: 11494140Abstract: The disclosed system presents to a user a first group of options representing information to include in a label. The system receives a first selection of a portion of the options representing first selected information to include in the label. Upon receiving the first selection of the portion of the options, the system adjusts a second group of options presented to the user based on the first selection. The system receives a second selection of a portion of the second group of options indicating a second selected information to include in the label. The system sends the first selected information and the second selected information to a printer.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Cacotec CorporationInventor: Filip Bajovic
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Patent number: 11489981Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kyohei Takeda
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Patent number: 11487485Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hideki Kato, Kan Matsuda, Tomomi Miyasaka
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Patent number: 11482026Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventor: Naoki Okamoto
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Patent number: 11475685Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: FMR LLCInventors: Nilesh Goel, Samir Kakkar, Shruthi Kulkarni, Diksha Arora
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Patent number: 11457124Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Incheon Park, Jaein Lee, Daehyun Kim
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Patent number: 11450123Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Christina R. Strong, Vishakha Gupta, Luis Carlos Maria Remis, Kushal Datta, Arun Raghunath
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Patent number: 11415723Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: FARO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Jens Trollmann, Stefan Mueller
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Patent number: 11416196Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventor: Masahiro Iwata
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Patent number: 11417009Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Kaijian Gao, Trevor Glenn Elkins, Lauren Anne Ko, Rebecca Chen, Giorgos C. Zacharia
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Patent number: 10652404Abstract: An image forming device includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on a transfer medium in accordance with a JOB; and a controller that controls the image forming unit. The controller is capable of acquiring a read image obtained by reading the image on the transfer medium, and determining failure/no-failure in the image on the transfer medium in accordance with the read image. When the image is determined to have a failure in accordance with the determination, the controller saves, for each JOB, original image information related to at least a failure-detected page in which the failure has been detected in a state in which the original image information is associated with output history information, and makes at least the failure-detected page re-printable in accordance with the associated original image information.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Junpei Kaminaka
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Patent number: 10635363Abstract: A roll-fed printing apparatus and a method for controlling the roll-fed printing apparatus for printing print jobs on a recording medium by means of a print mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Eduardus J. W. Van Vliembergen, Elsemieke P. A. Van Rossum
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Patent number: 10474402Abstract: A print management server provided outside a predetermined LAN includes a receiver, a processor, and a transmitter. The receiver receives a print output instruction from a communication terminal of a user, the print output instruction being issued to a print output device provided inside the predetermined LAN and being an instruction to print out a print target file. The processor determines whether the print target file is present inside the predetermined LAN. When it is determined that the print target file is present inside the predetermined LAN, the transmitter transmits a generation command to a communication relay device inside the predetermined LAN, the generation command being a command to generate print job data on the basis of the print target file acquired by the communication relay device and a print setting instruction.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Takahiro Kouno
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Patent number: 10469697Abstract: Provided is a reading module including a light source, an optical system, and a sensor. The optical system images reflected light of light emitted from the light source to the document, as image light. The sensor converts the imaged image light into an electric signal. The optical system includes a mirror array in which a plurality of reflection mirrors are connected, and a plurality of aperture stops. Neighboring reflection mirrors reflect light at different angles viewed from the main scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Takaaki Murase, Kei Ouchi