Patents Examined by Saeid Ebrahimi Dehkord
  • Patent number: 9147137
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, there is provided a label printer including a conveying mechanism, an RFID reader and writer, a communication intensity information acquisition unit, and a maximum communication intensity position determination unit, and an optimal communication position calculation unit. If communication with the plurality of RFID tags occurs simultaneously in the RFID reader and writer while conveying the mount by the conveying mechanism along the conveying route, the communication intensity information acquisition unit acquires information indicating a communication intensity between each of a plurality of the RFID tags and the RFID reader and writer in correlation with identification information of each of the RFID tags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Kuniya
  • Patent number: 9143646
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set a prohibition timer that prohibits shutdown when the image forming apparatus returns from a power saving state, and a control unit configured, when a shutdown time set in advance has passed, to control the shutdown of the image forming apparatus to be delayed until a time of the prohibition timer set by the setting unit is up, and to control the shutdown of the image forming apparatus to be forcibly performed when the time of the prohibition timer has been up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Hikichi
  • Patent number: 9139021
    Abstract: A nail print apparatus, including: a printing unit which has a print head that performs printing on a nail of a finger or toe; and a control unit which controls the printing unit on a basis of image data including position information that shows a position to attach at least one decorative part to the nail so as to print placement information including the position information on the nail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ai Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9141897
    Abstract: A signal generation portion of an image forming apparatus generates a different level of signal according to an output value of a pyroelectric sensor. A recognition portion determines a measurement value on the speed of change of the signal and recognizes which of a first range and a second range the measurement value is. In a power supply portion, when the measurement value falls within the first range in a mode other than a power-saving mode, and the image forming apparatus is brought into the power-saving mode, and, when the measurement value falls within the second range in the power-saving mode, the power-saving mode is cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Naruyuki Miyamoto, Yukio Tanisaki, Kentaro Naruse, Rie Tezuka
  • Patent number: 9141939
    Abstract: The present image processing apparatus externally receives document data, obtains attribute information that indicates information on matters from a matter management server, and transmits the received document data and the obtained attribute information on individual matter data to a document management server. The document management server presents, in accordance with a request from an external apparatus, the transmitted document data and attribute information on matters to the external apparatus, and receives, from the external apparatus, association information that is selected in accordance with the presented information and associates the document data with the matter data, and registers, together with the association information, the corresponding document data in the matter management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Natsuki Kato
  • Patent number: 9141320
    Abstract: Disclosed is a print system including: a client terminal; and a print server to create a print data in accordance with a file received from the client terminal and to transmit the created print data to a printer; and to instruct the client terminal to display a print preview for the file and a print setting UI on a Web browser of the client terminal in a display mode selected from a plurality of display modes, wherein the client terminal determines the display mode and notifies the print server of the determined display mode, and wherein the print server selects the display mode in which the print preview and the print setting UI are displayed on the Web browser of the client terminal, in accordance with a notification relating to the determined display mode from the client terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Shin Igawa
  • Patent number: 9134929
    Abstract: A storage apparatus having an application program and connected to a data processing apparatus, the storage apparatus including a reception part configured to receive data from outside and store the data in the storage apparatus; and an execution part configured to operate the application programs and transmit an execution request to the data processing apparatus via an interface which is specific to the data processing apparatus so that a data processing is executed by functions provided to the data processing apparatus when the storage device receives a data processing request related to the data stored in the storage apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Takehito Tomita
  • Patent number: 9137390
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a processor to perform determining whether a current state of the communication apparatus is a master station state or a slave station state; controlling to perform, in a first case where it is determined that the current state of the communication apparatus is the master station state, a first type communication with the target apparatus to enable the target apparatus to participate in the specific wireless network, and controlling to transmit, in a second case where it is determined that the current state of the communication apparatus is the slave station state, transmits a communication request to perform a second type communication to enable the target apparatus to participate in the specific wireless network between the master station apparatus and the target apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9134936
    Abstract: In response to information indicating data to be printed from a portable device, a system generates compatible printer information indicating one or more compatible printers compatible with printing of the data to be printed, sing information related to the data to be printed and device information of each one of the nearby printers. Based on the compatible printer information, a display for the system displays thereon a screen that lists one or more compatible printers that are compatible with printing of the data to be printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuya Monden
  • Patent number: 9134934
    Abstract: The present invention provides a layout information calibrating method and device, wherein the calibrating method comprises: obtaining the parameter calibrating standard of layout information and layout information to be calibrated; matching the layout information to be calibrated with the parameter calibrating standard of the layout information; if the layout information to be calibrated is consistent with the parameter calibrating standard of the layout information, sending the information indicating the layout information is successfully calibrated; if the layout information to be calibrated is inconsistent with the parameter calibrating standard of the layout information, sending a reminder indicating the layout information is not successfully calibrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignees: PEKING UNIVERSITY FOUNDER GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING FOUNDER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jia Li, Qianqian Xie, Shaokun Shi
  • Patent number: 9131186
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes: a platen on which to place a document; a scanner unit configured to scan the document placed on the platen; a document detection unit configured to detect the document placed on the platen; an authentication information input unit configured to receive input of a piece of first authentication information; and a control unit configured, when the document detection unit detects the document before use of the image formation is permitted on the basis of the piece of first authentication information received by the authentication information input unit, to cause the scanner unit to start to scan the document in accordance with a predetermined scan condition if the use is permitted on the basis of the piece of first authentication information received by the authentication information input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 9122434
    Abstract: Systems and methods for prioritizing print jobs of different families within a print job batch are provided. Such a system may include, for example, an input/output port and a processor. The input/output port may output a print job batch including at least one print job of a first family and at least one print job of a second family. The processor configured may determine the order of priority of the print job batch based at least in part on a first trend of expected differences in setup times between print machines when the first family is prioritized before the second family and a second trend when the second family is prioritized before the first family.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Ron Banner
  • Patent number: 9117159
    Abstract: According to one example of the present invention there is provided apparatus for generating control data to control an ink jet printer to print a double-sided image on a single side of a substantially transparent substrate. The apparatus comprises a processor for receiving image data of a first and a second image, a printhead control data generator to generate, from the first image, first image printhead control data, and to generate, from the second image, second image printhead control data, and a covering layer printhead control data generator to generate covering layer printhead control data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Industrial Printing LTD.
    Inventor: Alex Davidson
  • Patent number: 9113093
    Abstract: Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of configuring a multi-function printer that includes printing, by the multi-function printer, a document, wherein the document is configured to receive information input from a user for configuring the multi-function printer. The method further includes scanning, by the multi-function printer, the document, wherein the document includes the information input by the user for configuring the multi-function printer. The method also includes responsive to the multi-function printer scanning the document, configuring the multi-function printer in accordance with the information input by the user for configuring the multi-function printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventor: David K. Poole
  • Patent number: 9111247
    Abstract: The present application presents a new and improved system and method of enhanced Lean Document Production (LDP), which employs cellular manufacturing concepts. The LDP process utilizes a processor to compute a dynamic production algorithm to generate an indication of a manufacturing or print shop excess capacity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Rong Zhou, Sudhendu Rai
  • Patent number: 9106779
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes: a communicating device configured to communicate with a mobile terminal according to a short distance wireless communication standard; at least one input receiver each configured to receive an input; and a controller configured to execute a processing related to the input received by the at least one input receiver. The controller is configured to execute: an approach detection processing in which the controller detects an approach of the mobile terminal to the communicating device; and a disabling processing in which the controller disables at least a portion of the at least one input receiver in response to detection of the approach of the mobile terminal in the approach detection processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 9096083
    Abstract: The continuous printing unit prints the input data with a margin length of the input data to be printed adjacent to each other among the plurality of input data set to a predetermined length without using the margin information respectively included in the input data to be printed adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hideyuki Tsukuda
  • Patent number: 9100607
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image display apparatus that sets a thinning rate, determined according to a designated display magnification ratio, with reference to plural display magnification ratio ranges, and a predetermined thinning rate determined in association with each display magnification ratio range, stores page image data, obtained from an apparatus storing information about the job, into a storage section by thinning page image data, pasts the thinned page image into a frame having a size according to the designated display magnification ratio, and displays the image pasted into the frame. When a display magnification ratio is changed within an identical display magnification ratio range, the image display apparatus pastes, by utilizing page image data according to a thinning rate before the change, the page image after magnifying it to fit into a frame having a size according to a display magnification ratio after the change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Takahiro Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 9098225
    Abstract: A server constituted by a plurality of processors which process page description language data receives a print instruction from a client, and decides the number of layers into which a page is to be segmented based on render instructions included in the page description language data. The server decides the number of processors which perform parallel processing of the generation of print data from the page description language data based on the decided number of layers. The server generates print data equal in number to the number of layers based on which the number of processors is decided. An output device requests the server to transmit print data. The server transmits print data in accordance with the request from the output device. Upon receiving the print data from the server, the output device processes the print data and outputs it onto a sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Morikazu Ito
  • Patent number: 9094558
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect an object, a reception unit configured to receive an operation of a user, and a shifting unit configured to shift, if the detection unit detects an object, a power state of the image forming apparatus from a first power state to a second power state different from the first power state, and shift, if the reception unit receives an operation of a user, the power state of the image forming apparatus from the second power state to the first power state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobuyasu Ito