Patents Examined by Miya J Williams
  • Patent number: 11687750
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus that efficiently performs time-divisional image processing tasks related to image formation of an image forming apparatus. A time division determination unit configured to determine and switch which of divided work items to execute based on execution time in a condition where at least one first task to be processed at a specific pace and at least one second task to be processed at best effort are respectively divides into smaller work items. A task execution unit executes the work item switched by the time division determination unit in a time division. This work item uses something as like first band data and second band data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Osada
  • Patent number: 11687297
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a printer capability acquiring unit of a general-purpose printer driver acquires, from a printer, definition information (definition for acquisition of apparatus-specific definition) for information acquisition specific to the printer, using definition information for information acquisition (definition for acquisition of apparatus-common information) commonly usable for various printers and independent of vendors or models, acquires, from the printer, configuration information specific to the printer, using the definition for acquisition of apparatus-specific information, and saves the configuration information in an extended information storage unit for each printer. The general-purpose printer driver controls the printer using the configuration information for the printer saved in the extended information storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keisuke Morita
  • Patent number: 11683424
    Abstract: A printing apparatus that prints an image on a sheet includes at least one memory that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes instructions, of the set of instructions, to cause the printing apparatus to perform operations including receiving a print job for instructing printing of a plurality of pages, in which a plurality of copies, each including one or more pages, is included, determining a number of copies based on a number of pages in the plurality of pages and attribution information indicating a number of pages per a set of pages to be printed, and displaying a screen that includes information indicating the determined number of copies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasunori Kanai
  • Patent number: 11683428
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, to communicate with an image forming apparatus having a predetermined sheet feeding unit, includes a selection unit and a setting unit. The selection unit selects one storage method at least from among a first and second sheet information storage method. The setting unit executes a setting, based on the selected one storage method, for the predetermined sheet feeding unit. In the first sheet information storage method and after the sheet information is set for the predetermined sheet feeding unit, the setting of the sheet information is not cancelled when an absence of a sheet on the predetermined sheet feeding unit is detected. In the second sheet information storage method and after the sheet information is set for the predetermined sheet feeding unit, the setting of the sheet information is cancelled when an absence of a sheet on the predetermined sheet feeding unit is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroya Igarashi, Nobuhiro Kawamura, Yusuke Kimura
  • Patent number: 11677888
    Abstract: A terminal device control method includes: a window mode information acquisition step of acquiring window mode information indicating any one of a single-window mode, which is a mode in which one application runs, and a multi-window mode, which is a mode in which a plurality of applications run in parallel, for a screen of a terminal device configured to cause an external device to perform operation by communicating to/from the external device; a switching step of making a switch, in a case in which the window mode information acquired in the window mode information acquisition step indicates the multi-window mode, to enable or disable a first operation, which is an operation to be performed at least in a time period in which a first application for causing the external device to perform operation runs, and is an operation regarding information to be transmitted from the external device to the terminal device; and a first operation execution step of executing the first operation in a case in which the switch
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventor: Tomoki Ogura
  • Patent number: 11676271
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a program that causes a computer to perform an obtaining process, an analyzing process, and an extracting process. In the obtaining process, the computer obtains a radiographic moving image showing a motion of a specific part of an examinee. In the analyzing process, the computer analyzes the radiographic moving image obtained in the obtaining process. In the extracting process, the computer extracts, among frames constituting the radiographic moving image, a specific frame that visibly shows a detection target in the specific part, based on a result of analyzing a dynamic state of the specific part in the analyzing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Noritsugu Matsutani, Sumiya Nagatsuka, Yuki Kawana
  • Patent number: 11669706
    Abstract: A printer includes a print head and a controller. The controller is configured to, using first print data containing a plurality of layers, select at least one, but not all, of the plurality of layers based on weight information regarding respective weights of the plurality of layers, generate second print data based on the selected at least one but not all of the plurality of layers, and control the print head to print at least one patch image on a printing medium based on the generated second print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirotoshi Maehira
  • Patent number: 11662957
    Abstract: An image forming device includes a receiver and a switcher. The receiver receives data for executing a function of storing specific data in a preset private box. The switcher switches between first and second register modes when the function to be executed by using the data received by the receiver is copied into the image forming device. The first register mode is a mode in which a private box is manually registered in the image forming device. The second register mode is a mode in which a private box is automatically registered in the image forming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Yusuke Kamoi
  • Patent number: 11659114
    Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit configured to perform recording on a recording target medium, a first conveyance path that is a conveyance path of the recording target medium including an opposite position that faces the recording unit, and conveyance of the recording target medium in a first direction, a second conveyance path being coupled to the first conveyance path at a position downstream of the recording unit in the first direction, the second conveyance path being coupled to the first conveyance path also at a position upstream of the recording unit in the first direction and configured for conveyance of the recording target medium to the first conveyance path with a surface of the recording target medium inverted, and an insertion port configured to enable insertion of a recording target medium as an insertion material to the second conveyance path from outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Waki, Tetsuji Yatsunami
  • Patent number: 11659112
    Abstract: A scanner is provided and includes a load bearing element, a scan assembly, a transparent plate and a casing. The load bearing element includes a support element and a base. The support element is disposed on the base and surrounds the base. The scan assembly is configured to perform a scan operation and is disposed on the base. The transparent plate is disposed on the support element and is configured to bear an object. The casing includes a first casing part and a second casing part. The second casing part includes a bottom plate and at least one cylinder. The at least one cylinder is disposed on the bottom plate. The load bearing element is disposed on the at least one cylinder, and is located between the first casing part and the second casing part. A first buffer space is formed between the base and the bottom plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TECO IMAGE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei-Shen Chen, Yi-Hsuan Tsai
  • Patent number: 11650773
    Abstract: Embodiments facilitate the management of security certificates for third-party services being used to print documents from kiosks in public locales. The system establishes a gateway connection between a cloud-based host server, the third-party service, and the kiosk. When a user wishes to use the third-party service to print a document requested through the kiosk, the host server obtains the security certificate and installs the certificate in the kiosk. The kiosk may then request the document from the third-party service which forwards the document upon authentication of the security certificate details registered in the kiosk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Inventors: Daisaku Nagano, Hooman Majidzadeh Rezvani
  • Patent number: 11652947
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and an arithmetic device. The arithmetic device acts as a registerer, a storage device, and a deleter. The registerer registers a user. The storage device stores function information related to a function to be utilized by the registered user, in the memory in association with the user. The deleter deletes, when one of a plurality of events, defined as triggers for reducing a number of the users registered by the registerer, has occurred, the registration of one or more users and the associated function information, according to a rule corresponding to the event that has occurred. The deleter keeps from deleting, when the event that has occurred, out of the plurality of events, makes the user whose registration has been deleted highly likely to be reregistered, the function information associated with the user whose registration is deleted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Chigusa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11652932
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a character recognition unit configured to perform character recognition processing for recognizing one or more characters included in image data and acquiring character information, a display unit configured to display one or more characters indicated by the character information acquired by the character recognition unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data to a folder the name of which is a character selected by a user from among the one or more characters displayed by the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Tsukada
  • Patent number: 11647140
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus to which an external apparatus is connected includes an image forming unit configured to form an image, and a power supply device configured to supply power to the image forming apparatus and the external apparatus. In a case where a value of an alternating current voltage input to the power supply device is a first value, the power supply device supplies first power to the external apparatus. In a case where the value of the alternating current voltage is a second value smaller than the first value, the power supply device supplies second power smaller than the first power to the external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junya Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11647137
    Abstract: A print media detection apparatus may include a movable scanner bar for scanning media, a feeder tray for supplying the print media, a print media indicator and a controller. The print media indicator may include a first portion to interact with the print media within the feeder tray and a second portion coupled to the first portion to move in response to movement of the first portion. The scanner bar is to sense the second portion of the media indicator. The controller is to determine a characteristic of the print media within the feeder tray based upon sensing of the second portion by the scanner bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Suriyaprakash Saravanan, Kok Chai Chong, Aiqiang Yang
  • Patent number: 11632484
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a setting unit that makes authentication print settings such that when authentication information is inputted after image data is received, printing is executed based on the image data; and a transfer unit that, when the image data is received with the authentication print settings, in response to input of the authentication information, transfers the image data to a different apparatus, and when the image data is received without the authentication print settings, transfers the image data to the different apparatus regardless of input of the authentication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Keitaro Ishida
  • Patent number: 11632483
    Abstract: A management system for managing a data transmission destination comprises an accumulation unit configured to accumulate, when data transmission is performed, transmission information of the data transmission as collected data; a generation unit configured to generate training data including a pair of ground truth data containing transmission destination information, and input data containing an item other than the transmission destination information, from the collected data accumulated in the accumulation unit; a processing unit configured to generate, by machine learning, a learning model to be used to predict a transmission destination, by using the training data generated by the generation unit; and a providing unit configured to provide a prediction process using the learning model in response to a request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shunsuke Mogaki
  • Patent number: 11622056
    Abstract: A personal computer 1 includes a first communication interface mechanism 16 that communicates with a first scanner 2A, and a first memory 13 that stores first reading setting information 131A in a first folder 131. The first scanner 2A includes a reception unit 221 that receives instruction data CM instructing reading of an image for which the first folder 131 is specified as the storage destination for read data, an acquisition unit 222 that, when the reception unit 221 receives the instruction data CM, accesses to the first folder 131 of the personal computer 1 and acquires the first reading setting information 131A from the first folder 131, a setting unit 223 that sets a reading condition based on the first reading setting information 131A, and a reading unit 224 that reads out an image and generates read data under the reading condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Kanada, Kiyoshi Mizukura
  • Patent number: 11616892
    Abstract: For a plurality of types of print media, a pre-trained model is prepared, the pre-trained model being generated by machine learning based on spectroscopic information of an unprinted area on the print medium and an identifier indicating the type of the print medium and using the identifier as a trainer. The spectroscopic information of the unprinted area on the print medium to print on is acquired. The acquired spectroscopic information is applied to the pre-trained model. Using a result thereof, auxiliary information about the type of the print medium is outputted. A specification of the type of the print medium using the outputted auxiliary information is accepted. When the type of the print medium is thus specified, printing is performed using a print condition suitable for the print medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yuko Yamamoto, Takahiro Kamada, Mitsuhiro Yamashita, Shotaro Matsuda, Ryoki Watanabe, Kenji Matsuzaka
  • Patent number: 11616894
    Abstract: A multi-function device (MFD) is disclosed. For example, the MFD includes a communication interface to establish a communication path with an authentication server, a user interface to receive document control information for a document to be generated, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions. The instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to generate a machine readable code that contains the document control information for the document and print the machine readable code onto the document that is printed by the MFD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Mirelsa Fontanes-Perez, Sanja Pstrocki-Porras, Cheryl A. Nazzaro, Dianne Colelli