Patents Examined by Scott A. Rogers
  • Patent number: 12045520
    Abstract: A display control device includes a progress acquirer that acquires progress of a plurality of processes for generating print products, a subdivision progress acquirer that acquires, in at least one of the plurality of processes, progress of subdivided processes obtained by subdividing the process, a process display that displays the plurality of processes on a display device so that at least one of the processes being executed is distinguishable, and a subdivided process display that displays the subdivided processes on the display device so that at least one of the subdivided processes being executed is distinguishable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryota Hara
  • Patent number: 12039208
    Abstract: A printing system allowing an administrator to conveniently limit a function of a print device when used by a general user is provided. The printing system includes a print device, an information processing apparatus in which a general-purpose printer driver commonly usable for a plurality of models of print devices is initially set as a cloud printer driver used when printing is performed by the print device, a first server, and a second server. The printing system increases or decreases the number of functions settable by a general user by using the cloud printer driver. The first server manages an APPID of the print setting extension application to be installed when the general user uses the print device as print setting extension application designation information in association with a GUID of the print device. The second server manages a plurality of print setting extension applications in association with their APPIDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yousuke Sugai
  • Patent number: 12039766
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image processing method, apparatus, device, and computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining an image dataset, the image dataset including an image and an accompanying text related to an unseen class in the image; and generating a probability and/or distribution of the unseen class using an unseen class obtaining model, the probability and/or distribution of the unseen class including a probability that each pixel in the image is from the unseen class, a probability that the unseen class is present in the image, and a regional probability after the image is subdivided into a plurality of regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., PEKING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jie Feng, Yadong Mu, Shuai Wang, Guiyu Tian, Yiming Bai, Xiangye Wei, Ge Ou, Qiong Wu
  • Patent number: 12028489
    Abstract: A scanning apparatus includes a scanning unit configured to scan a document to generate image data, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a chat server, the image data generated by the scanning unit and identification information corresponding to a post selected as a post to which a reply is to be made. The image data transmitted by the transmission unit and the post corresponding to the identification information transmitted by the transmission unit are posted in association with each other to a talk room of a chat service provided by the chat server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Kajimoto, Kenta Usami
  • Patent number: 12028488
    Abstract: The recording device includes an upstream transport roller pair capable of transporting a medium, a recording head configured to record an image by discharging ink at a predetermined timing on the medium transported downstream in a D1 direction by a predetermined transport amount by the upstream transport roller pair while moving in a Y-axis direction intersecting the D1 direction, an image capturing unit configured to read the image recorded on the medium by the recording head, and a control unit, wherein the control unit has a function of performing maintenance for a discharge failure of the ink, a correction of the transport amount, and a correction of the discharge timing of the ink based on the reading result of the image read by the image capturing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Shinagawa, Kazumasa Harada
  • Patent number: 12022036
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a display and a second controller that causes the display to display an edit screen including a first image edit area and a second image edit area for receiving an edit to an image. The second controller causes a stair image, which resembles the shape of a media tray to be inserted into a printing device, to be displayed as a background image of the edit screen. Images displayed in the first image edit area and the second image edit area are associated with images to be printed on a plurality of print media loaded in the media tray, the association being based on the location of the stair image relative to the first image edit area and the second image edit area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Watanabe, Tomohiro Kiyotaki
  • Patent number: 12015744
    Abstract: Embodiments provide systems and methods for securely transferring large objects. A computer-implemented method, for example, includes determining whether digital content captured by a content capture device currently qualifies as a large file for transmission, based on a size attribute and a current transmission parameter associated with currently transmitting objects from a content capture system to an enterprise content management system. If the digital content qualifies as a large file, the digital content is encrypted and transmitted to a decentralized storage system for storage, and a content identifier that identifies the encrypted digital content stored in the decentralized storage system is transmitted to the enterprise content management system. Otherwise, the digital content is transmitted from the content capture system to the enterprise content management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Open Text SA ULC
    Inventor: Kanaka Srinivas Chikkala
  • Patent number: 12008276
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a queued message service (QMS) that provides a multi-region, low-latency and reliable service for managing a large number of durable message queues for async targeted communication. This general-purpose, internal service QMS may be implemented in print queues as well as command queues for sensors. One example implementation of QMS is a print service. Such implementation introduces status indicators for printers internally, wherein such status indicators may identify whether a printer is blocked, offline, suspected of failure, properly functioning, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: City Storage Systems LLC
    Inventors: Henning Korsholm Rohde, Thiraphat Charoensripongsa, William David Wasserstrum
  • Patent number: 12008282
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing system that can combine and automate cloud and local tasks through an image forming workflow. The information processing system has a cloud server and a local server to execute the image forming workflow for a document. The cloud control unit allocates each of tasks of the workflow to the cloud server or the local server. The cloud task execution unit executes the task allocated to the cloud server by the cloud control unit. The client control unit sends and receives a task allocated to the local server and an execution result of the task from the cloud server to and from the cloud server. The local task execution unit executes the task allocated to the local server, which is acquired by the client control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hidenori Shoji
  • Patent number: 12003689
    Abstract: A lighting device (23) irradiates a web under conveyance with light. The lighting device includes a light source (43), and an irradiation port (61) configured to open linearly in a widthwise direction of the web at an end portion facing the web. The irradiation port (61) is formed between first and second parallel portions (62b, 63b) where a first plate member (62) and a second plate member (63) parallelly face each other. The web under conveyance is irradiated with linear light. It is possible to provide a lighting device capable of irradiating only an inspection region of a sheet or a web with light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: KOMORI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Tsumura, Takeshi Chiba, Osamu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12003674
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises acquiring information related to a chart to be printed, the chart including a plurality of patches arranged adjacent to each other; causing a display unit to display a plurality of patch displays according to a plurality of expected colors of the plurality of patches being acquired, and a procedure of sequentially measuring, by a colorimetric apparatus, the plurality of patches formed on the chart; sequentially acquiring measured values measured by the colorimetric apparatus; and sequentially displaying objects indicating measured colors, based on the measured value for each patch being acquired in a manner superimposed on a part of the patch display according to a corresponding expected color such that a display portions of the expected colors are connected between at least one pair of adjacent patch displays even after the objects are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukihiro Shindo, Hidekazu Nakashio
  • Patent number: 11991336
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of preventing damage and loss of an audit log when an attack due to an unauthorized access is detected is provided. The information processing apparatus having one or multiple functions includes a controller configured or programmed to function as a recording unit that records an audit log for each type corresponding to the one or multiple functions, a judging unit that, when an access request to the audit log is received, judges whether or not the access request is an unauthorized access, and a control unit that, in a case that a judgement result of the judging unit indicates that the access request is the unauthorized access, performs a stopping control to stop a function related to the type of the audit log that has received the access request, among the one or multiple functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi Kanematsu
  • Patent number: 11985288
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire first image data indicating a reference image as a target print result, and second image data indicating a target image to be inspected, and a processing unit configured to inspect the target image by performing a correction on a second partial region adjacent to a first partial region to enhance the second partial region relative to a difference image representing a difference between the reference image and the target image based on the first image data and the second image data, the first partial region having a difference in between the reference image and the target image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuichi Nakada
  • Patent number: 11983451
    Abstract: A print plugin different from an application displaying an application screen on a terminal may be unable to display a screen over the application screen at timing unintended by a user. In such a case, the print plugin is unable to display a warning screen for notifying the user of a warning related to print processing, and the user is unable to be informed of occurrence of the warning. If the warning screen is unable to be displayed over the application screen, the print plugin instructs the terminal to issue a notification for calling the warning screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kohei Komatsu
  • Patent number: 11979536
    Abstract: In an example, a method includes, at least one processor, in response to each of a plurality of requests, determining a halftone screen. Determining the halftone screen comprises encoding a signature pattern in the halftone screen, and halftone screens for different requests may be encoded with a different signature pattern. The halftone screen may be arranged such that, when applied to image data to provide a printed output, the pattern is discernible therein to provide a signature for the printed output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Gideon Amir, Tadej Turk
  • Patent number: 11966641
    Abstract: A method for printing a document with user-defined boundaries is disclosed. For example, a method is executed by a processor of a multi-function device (MFD) and includes receiving a user-defined boundary of a document that excludes a portion of at least one page, identifying content within the user-defined boundary, generating an MFD job with the content, and executing the MFD job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Yolanda R. Zhesnik, Amanda Applin, Steven L. Aurand, Kim P. Ciulla, Lee C. Moore
  • Patent number: 11968332
    Abstract: There is provided with an information processing apparatus. A first obtaining unit obtains data of a reference image indicating a target of printing output to be performed by a printing apparatus. A second obtaining unit obtains data of an image printed by the printing apparatus. A correcting unit corrects a local image density difference or the reference image based on a global image density difference between the reference image and the printed image. An evaluating unit evaluates quality of the printed image based on the local image density difference between the corrected reference image and the printed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kyohei Kikuta, Kosei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11964497
    Abstract: The invention comprises an apparatus and method of use thereof for processing a machine produced emulated handwritten document prepared on a marking surface, comprising the steps of: receiving a print job order; digitally generating a reference image of the print job order; machine plotting with a plotting pen and a downward force of one-half to forty ounces applied to said plotting pen an indentation trail to form input text on the marking surface; digitally imaging the input text on the marking surface to form an actual image; and in a quality control step, digitally comparing the reference image to the actual image prior to insertion of the print job order into an envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventor: David Wachs
  • Patent number: 11968342
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a storage device and a control device. The storage device stores a document. The control device includes a processor and functions, through the processor executing a control program, as a character recognizer and a tag generator. The character recognizer analyzes the document stored in the storage device and recognizes characters contained in the document. The tag generator analyzes, based on a recognition result of the character recognizer, a sequence of characters contained in the document and generates a tag expressing a feature of descriptive content of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Keanu Go, Eliot Emerson Uy, Romel Dianon, Jr., Roy Vincent Maranon, Peter James Bulat-Ag, J'mark Ramos, Gerald Galanida, Hazel Ozon, Fritzer Abapo, Maria Johanna Ybanez, Kenneth Kienzle Arrieta, July Descartin
  • Patent number: 11954519
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and processing circuitry. The memory stores log data generated by an execution of a process. The processing circuity stops the execution of the process in a state where the process is being executed and when an amount of the log data in the memory is larger than a first threshold, and restarts the execution of the process in a state where the execution of the process is stopped and when the amount of the log data in the memory is smaller than a second threshold that is smaller than the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiko Uejo