Patents Examined by Saeid Ebrahimi Dehkordy
  • Patent number: 10809950
    Abstract: The web server program causes the information processing apparatus to function as: a reception unit that receives a request from a web application executed on the web browser; an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the request, information about a domain of the web application executed on the web browser; a determination unit that determines whether or not to permit communication with the web application executed on the web browser, based on the domain indicated in the information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a transmission unit that transmits a response to the web browser based on the result of determination of the determination unit, wherein the web server program communicates with an external apparatus connected to a network, and acquires, from the external apparatus, information used for authentication or authorization by the external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: CANON DENSHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sousuke Onodera, Hiroki Miura, Taketo Ochiai, Hirotaka Watanabe, Kazuki Takano, Hiroki Arai, Dayon Kou, Yuantian Wei
  • Patent number: 10805495
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores computer-readable instructions for a processor to perform a first and second processes. The first process comprises: generating first scan data; acquiring a first feature data set indicating features of the first scan data; selecting using the first feature data set as input data, one or more of target workflow parameter sets according to a selection procedure based on selection criteria indicated by selection criteria data; and executing a process on the first scan data according to one of the selected one or more target workflow parameter sets. The second process comprises: acquiring a workflow parameter set; generating second scan data; acquiring a second feature data set indicating features of the second scan data; and updating the selection criteria data to add the workflow parameter set to the target workflow parameter sets and to reflect the second feature data set in the selection criteria data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroya Nojiri, Yoji Sohara
  • Patent number: 10791580
    Abstract: A communication apparatus that performs first wireless communication in accordance with a Neighbor Awareness Network (NAN) and second wireless communication using a communication circuit common with the first wireless communication is provided. The communication apparatus performs the first wireless communication so as to transmit identification information of the communication apparatus as a predetermined transmission in response to a start of the first wireless communication, and to advertise a service providable by the communication apparatus in response to a response from a terminal apparatus with respect to the predetermined transmission. The communication apparatus performs the second wireless communication to provide the service with the terminal apparatus which has detected the service by advertisement of the service using the first wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Aran Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 10773917
    Abstract: A sheet profile input area is displayed on a user interface. The user interface can be in communication with a processor and a decurler device. The decurler device receives sheets output by any form of sheet output device that may add curl to the sheets. User input that corresponds to the curl of the sheets is received into the sheet profile input area. The decurler device is controlled to remove the curl of the sheets based on the user input by causing the decurler device to contact the sheets after the sheets are output from the sheet output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Roberto A. Irizarry, Erwin Ruiz, Rachel L. Tanchak, Carlos M. Terrero
  • Patent number: 10771643
    Abstract: An information processing system causes a screen displayed by an information processing terminal to transition to another screen according to an operation by a user. The information processing system includes a screen configurator configured to generate screen data of the screen and cause the information processing terminal to display the screen, the screen being configured to accept, from the user, a selection operation of a parameter, a deletion operation of the parameter, a validation operation of the selected parameter, and a cancellation operation of the selection operation; and an information manager configured to manage parameter information of the parameter for which the validation operation was last accepted, held by a holder. The screen configurator generates the screen data so as to reject the deletion operation of deleting the parameter for which the validation operation was last accepted, based on the parameter information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nanami Ishii
  • Patent number: 10764459
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a main body, a document pressing plate, and a light shielding portion. The main body has an image obtaining portion which irradiates illumination light on a document placed on a contact glass and captures an image formed on the document. The document pressing plate is attached to the main body in such a way as to pivot around a pivot shaft that is provided on a rear side above an upper surface of the main body. The pivot shaft moves in an up-down direction with respect to the main body. The light shielding portion, when the document pressing plate presses downward the document, extends downward from the document pressing plate with increase of an interval between the document pressing plate and the upper surface on the rear side in the up-down direction, so as to shield the illumination light not to leak outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10742840
    Abstract: A communication device may: receive a request signal from an external device via a communication interface, the request signal including a first IP address of the external device as a sender address; determine whether the first IP address in the request signal is a global IP address in a case where the request signal is received from the external device; and send a response signal to the request signal to the external device in a case where it is determined that the first IP address is not the global IP address, wherein sending of the request signal is restricted in a case where it is determined that the first IP address is the global IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Furukawa
  • Patent number: 10742828
    Abstract: An object is to keep continuity of data in a case where print data for which inclination correction processing has been performed is transferred sequentially. The present invention is a printing apparatus including: a print head in which a plurality of nozzle rows is arrayed, each of the nozzle rows having an inclination with respect to a direction intersecting with a conveyance direction of a printing medium; a creation unit configured to create a plurality of pieces of divided data by dividing image data corresponding to an entire printing-target image area in the conveyance direction; and an image processing unit configured to create print data corresponding to the divided data by performing image processing including inclination correction in accordance with an inclination of the nozzle row for the divided data, and the creation unit divides the image data so that areas necessary for the inclination correction overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Katsuya Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10732908
    Abstract: A system of facilitating printing of shipping labels includes a computing device and a label printer. The computing device receive shipment database data from a remote computing device, store the shipment database data in a shipment database, receive scan data associated with an object from a scanning device, determine whether shipment data for the object is in the shipping database, determine shipping information for the object based on whether shipment data for the object is in the shipping database, and send shipping information to the label printer. The shipping information for the object is based on whether shipment data for the object is in the shipping database. The label printer prints a shipping label for the object based on the shipping information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Sealed Air Corporation (US)
    Inventors: Russell Christman, John Mario, Michael Kalinowski
  • Patent number: 10719281
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a set of program instructions for a communication terminal. The instructions cause, when executed by a processor of the communication terminal, the communication terminal to operate to obtain updated ID information and fixed ID information of a communication apparatus, and communicate with a communication apparatus based on the updated ID information. The updated ID information is periodically updated on the communication apparatus side, while the fixed ID information is not periodically updated. When the communication terminal is incapable of communicating with the communication apparatus based on the updated ID information, the updated ID information and the fixed ID information are obtained again from the communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Yoshimori, Takafumi Kai, Yu Matsuo
  • Patent number: 10721370
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores an application and a module related to an operation of the application, and circuitry configured to detect a difference between a first character string included in a first file associated with the application and a second character string included in a second file associated with the module as difference information, the second character string corresponding to the first character string, transmit the difference information indicating the detected difference to a server, and update the second file in accordance with an update notification of the second file transmitted from the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru Naya, Mari Tatezono, Naohiko Kubo, Zentaroh Ono
  • Patent number: 10705778
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to perform: extracting, as a common object, an object commonly referred to on a plurality of pages, from a file including data of a plurality of pages and positional information indicating positions of the data of the plurality of pages; determining whether to define the common object extracted at the extracting as an object to be commonly used on the plurality of pages or to define the common object on each of the plurality of pages; reconstructing data by arranging the object based on a determination result at the determining; and transmitting the data reconstructed at the reconstructing to an image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Junji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10705773
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to suppress a printing apparatus from becoming unavailable due to the life of a nonvolatile memory ending. The present invention is a printing apparatus including: a volatile memory; a nonvolatile memory in which a rewrite of data is performed in units of blocks and whose number of times of rewrite has an upper limit; and a management unit configured to manage a use of the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory as a spool buffer temporarily storing print data, and the management unit limits the use of the nonvolatile memory based on an estimated life of the nonvolatile memory, which is different from state information indicating a state of a defective block of the nonvolatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsunori Sasaki, Hironori Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10708460
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an intruder detecting unit that detects an intruder, a notification unit that notifies detection of the intruder, an intruder detection mode execution unit that executes an intruder detection mode to cause the notification unit to notify the detection of the intruder if the intruder is detected with the intruder detecting unit operating, a job reception unit that receives an instruction to perform a job, and an image forming unit that forms an image. The intruder detection mode execution unit suspends the intruder detection mode for a predetermined suspension time period if the job reception unit receives the instruction to perform a predetermined specific job while the intruder detection mode execution unit executes the intruder detection mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daiki Yashima
  • Patent number: 10701230
    Abstract: The image formation apparatus includes: a multi-core processor having a plurality of cores; and an image forming mechanism configured to form an image on a recording medium. At least one of the plurality of cores includes a switching controller configured to switch a first OS run by the core for performing a mechanism controller processing to control the image forming mechanism and a second OS run by the core for performing a controller processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shigeki Nozawa
  • Patent number: 10701239
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a retaining unit and an image display. The retaining unit retains image-formation-related information of an image forming apparatus that forms an image. The image display causes a display section of a portable terminal having the display section and an image capturing section to display an image for assisting with an operation of the image forming apparatus based on a captured image result of the image capturing section and the image-formation-related information retained in the retaining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kimihiko Isobe, Junichi Horii
  • Patent number: 10694069
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide for a method, system, and computer program for increasing the success of a facsimile transmission. In an embodiment of the invention, the method includes monitoring an incoming facsimile number transmitting a fax image by a carrier and on the condition that a threshold failure rate is met or exceeded for the carrier transmitting the fax image on the incoming facsimile number, adjusting the carrier to a new carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: CONCORD III, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Ralph Musgrove
  • Patent number: 10686954
    Abstract: In a multi-purpose peripheral, a first cover pivotally disposed on a body has a lower surface and a platen portion opposite the lower surface; a second cover pivotally disposed on the body is separated from the first cover by a gap; a first scan assembly movably disposed in the body acquires an image of a first document covered, by the lower surface of the first cover, onto a transparent platen of the body; a transporting mechanism disposed in the body and the second cover transports a second document on the first cover; and a second scan assembly disposed in the second cover acquires an image of the second document transported by the transporting mechanism past the second scan assembly. Upper surfaces of the second cover and the first cover are disposed on the same horizontal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: AVISION INC.
    Inventor: Shao-Lan Sheng
  • Patent number: 10684804
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium. The image forming apparatus includes a determining section, a first acquiring section, a second acquiring section, a specifying section, and a notifying section. The determining section determines whether or not an event has occurred involving interruption to an operation through which the image is formed. The first acquiring section acquires identification information for identifying terminal devices respectively associated with a plurality of users. The second acquiring section acquires history data indicating use history of the recording medium for each of the users. The specifying section specifies at least one user of the users based on the history data when occurrence of the event has been determined. The notifying section notifies a terminal device corresponding to the specified user of a message prompting work to resolve the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Seiji Okuni
  • Patent number: 10681233
    Abstract: Imaging systems for visual works may be by implemented by a variety of systems, processes, and techniques. In one general implementation, an imaging system for a visual work may include side supports support configured to engage a support surface and support the imaging system thereon. The side supports may include tracks along their longitudinal axes. The system may also include a cross member configured to span between the side supports and engage their tracks. The system may also include a carriage adapted to move along a track of the cross member. The carriage may include a camera mount configured to receive, secure, and position a camera above the visual work to be imaged so that the camera images only a portion of the visual work at a time. The carriage may be moved to successive image acquisition locations at which an acquired image overlaps with the previous image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Inventors: Walter N. Armstrong, Evan Gray, Joshua Stowers, Oliver Garcia, Alex Villareal