Patents Examined by Thierry L Pham
  • Patent number: 9063675
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit communicable with a device via an access point which relays communication data and a controller. The controller is configured to store, in a first storage portion, setting information set for a processing in association with identification information of an access point to which the communication unit is connected. The controller is further configured to acquire the identification information of the access point to which the communication unit is connected. The controller is further configured to read the setting information stored in association with the identification information acquired from the first storage portion and to set the processing by using the read setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirokazu Sato
  • Patent number: 9058146
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device includes a processor configured to output a first print instruction to print one or more images corresponding to one or more pieces of image data contained in a specific image data set in one case of a first case that a near field wireless communication unit establishes near field wireless communication with a printer when a display unit is showing a display created based on a first display data and a second case that the near field wireless communication unit establishes the near field wireless communication with the printer when the display unit is showing a display created based on a second display data, and output a second print instruction to print one image corresponding to one piece of image data contained in the specific image data set in the other case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Norihiko Asai
  • Patent number: 9060086
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reading unit, a document conveyance unit, a sheet storage unit, a printing unit, a first and second determination unit, and a control unit. The reading unit reads a document. The printing unit performs printing on a sheet fed from the sheet storage unit. The first determination unit determines a first size of the document based on a size of a sheet stored in the sheet storage unit. The control unit causes the document conveyance unit to convey the document and causes the reading unit to read the document based on the determined first size. The second determination unit determines a second size of the conveyed document. In response to the determined first size not matching the determined second size, the control unit causes the document to be conveyed again and causes the document to be read again based on the determined second size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9058137
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an instruction unit configured to issue a print instruction for printing print data stored in a storage device or a print server, a determination unit configured to determine whether authentication information is included in the print data, and a printing unit configured to, when the instruction unit issues the print instruction without performing authentication operation for authenticating a user and when the determination unit determines that authentication information is included in the print data, print the print data in response to an input of the authentication information by the user, and when the instruction unit issues the print instruction after performing authentication operation for authenticating a user and when the determination unit determines that authentication information is included in the print data, print the print data without prompting the user to input authentication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Amano
  • Patent number: 9052850
    Abstract: A printer driver includes a plurality of modules, an interface unit that accepts the addition of plug-in including one or more additional modules for realizing a predetermined function, and a storage unit that stores setting information that defines information related to a partial process for realizing the predetermined function of the plug-in. The plurality of modules performs a process that is the partial process for realizing the predetermined function and cannot be realized in the additional modules included in the plug-in in accordance with the setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeo Araki
  • Patent number: 9047032
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for processing a print setting in a printer driver configured to generate data to be sent to and printed from a printing device, the information processing apparatus including storage unit configured to store constraint rules each defining a constraint for avoiding conflict between print settings; an instruction unit configured to instruct fixing of a print setting; and a rule priority setting unit configured to increase a priority of a constraint rule concerning a print setting for which fixing has been instructed is disclosed as an example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiro Mitsui
  • Patent number: 9030692
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an HDD for storing a plurality of pieces of transmission destination information in correspondence with a short-cut key for instructing image transmission; an operation unit displaying the short-cut key and detecting selection of the short-cut key; and a control unit displaying the plurality of transmission destinations stored in correspondence with the short-cut key if a prescribed condition is satisfied. The operation unit receives a selection operation of selecting a piece of transmission destination information from among the displayed plurality of pieces of transmission destination information, and the control unit determines the selected piece of transmission destination information to be the transmission destination of image transmission made by the selection of the short-cut key. Even if a plurality of transmission destinations are registered with the short-cut key, erroneous transmission to an unintended destination can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Miyoko Maruyama, Naohiro Andoh
  • Patent number: 9020809
    Abstract: A method includes accessing data specifying a set of actions, each action defining a user device operation and for each action: accessing a corresponding set of command sentences for the action, determining first n-grams in the set of command sentences that are semantically relevant for the action, determining second n-grams in the set of command sentences that are semantically irrelevant for the action, generating a training set of command sentences from the corresponding set of command sentences, the generating the training set of command sentences including removing each second n-gram from each sentence in the corresponding set of command sentences for the action, and generating a command model from the training set of command sentences configured to generate an action score for the action for an input sentence based on: first n-grams for the action, and second n-grams for the action that are also second n-grams for all other actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Pedro J. Mengibar, Mark Edward Epstein, Fadi Biadsy
  • Patent number: 9013737
    Abstract: An image reading device includes: a reading unit that reads image data of a document; a communication unit that communicates with an external apparatus; a start unit that receives a start instruction transmitted from the outside through the communication unit and starts the reading unit; a display; a first screen display unit that displays a first screen on the display before the reading unit starts; a second screen display unit that displays a second screen on the display after the reading unit reads the image data; a start instruction receiving unit that enables the start unit to receive the start instruction during the display of the first screen; and an inhibition unit that inhibits a process which involves a screen change and is not related to a process of reading the image data, while the first screen is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yujiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9013729
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods that operate to print information and documents stored on a mobile terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., Ricoh Americas Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutaka Oba, Tomoki Hattori
  • Patent number: 8988720
    Abstract: A display device includes a display position that includes a main region and a subregion, an operation portion that receives an input for producing a message and a movement operation for moving the message in the main region to the subregion, a storage portion that stores set data on the message and degree-of-importance data and a determination portion that determines, based on the degree-of-importance data, the degree of importance of the message. The display portion displays, in the subregion, the message on which the movement operation has been performed when the degree of importance is equal to or lower than a first criterion and continuously displays, in the main region, the message on which the movement operation has been performed when the degree of importance is higher than the first criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiya Miyai
  • Patent number: 8982377
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a storing unit that stores setting information for operating the image processing apparatus; and an updating control unit that sends a request for obtaining predetermined differentiated setting information, which is a part of a set of setting information stored in a data processing apparatus in a differentiated manner in accordance with a predetermined differentiating criterion, to the data processing apparatus via a network, obtains the predetermined differentiated setting information from the data processing apparatus via the network and controls to update the setting information stored in the storing unit by the obtained predetermined differentiated setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Uchibori, Kei Nakabayashi, Takashi Nakamura, Osamu Kizaki, Sachiko Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8964214
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is connected to an external device and includes a first receiving unit that receives information indicating a first volume of unprinted print data out of print data capable of being subject to distributed printing from the external device; a deciding unit that decides a second volume of the unprinted print data to undertake in the image processing apparatus for distributed printing on the basis of a predetermined condition upon reception of the information indicating the first volume of the unprinted print data; a first transmitting unit that transmits information indicating the second volume to the external device; and a second receiving unit that receives a piece of the unprinted print data corresponding to the second volume from the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shinsuke Yanazume, Hiroshi Baba, Tabito Suzuki, Nahoko Yano
  • Patent number: 8964266
    Abstract: An optical unit of an image reading device has the center of gravity in a position toward a first sub scanning direction, relative to the middle point of the optical unit in terms of sub scanning directions. An engagement part is provided in a position toward a first main scanning direction relative to a sliding part. A plurality of pairs of pinching parts include a first pair provided in a position toward the first sub scanning direction and a second pair provided in a position toward a second sub scanning direction. Of the two pinching parts in the second pair, the pinching part provided in a position toward the first main scanning direction is biased by a first biasing member toward a rail part side, and the pinching part provided in a position toward a second main scanning direction is not biased by the first biasing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Shunsuke Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 8947749
    Abstract: A method includes reading an image of a document obtained by a reading unit exposing the document to light with an exposure unit, causing the reading unit to perform first reading processing for reading first information obtained by causing the exposure unit to perform exposure with a first light amount, and second reading processing for reading second information obtained by causing the exposure unit to perform exposure with a second light amount that is smaller than the first light amount while no document is placed at a reading position of the reading unit, and detecting a foreign matter existing at the reading position according to a difference between the first and second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takehito Utsunomiya
  • Patent number: 8928924
    Abstract: A printing control apparatus configured to transmit a received job to an image processing apparatus transmits, in a case where, after receiving information indicating that preparation for transition to a power saving status is completed from the image processing apparatus, determination is made that a job to be preferentially transmitted to the image processing apparatus exists among the plurality of received jobs stored in a storage unit, the job to the image processing apparatus with priority over a job stored in the storage unit before the job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shou Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8928916
    Abstract: A display device which performs previewing of print data for printing an image on a tape including: a division data generating unit for dividing the print data into N parts and thus generates N division data (where N is an integer that is greater than or equal to 1); and a previewing unit for loading a target division data including a target area of the previewing, of the N division data, into a work area and sequentially reads out the division data from the work area, thus performing the previewing; wherein the division data generating unit decides a value of the N in accordance with a tape width of the tape and a tape length in the case where the print data is printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Takada, Naofumi Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 8913306
    Abstract: Provided is a document reading apparatus capable of surely detecting the document cover open/closed state and the open/close operation, without being affected by the external environment. This document reading apparatus includes a light source, a linear reading device and a document cover. In this document reading apparatus, the light amount value of the light received by the linear reading section while the light source is turned on, and the light amount value of the light received by the linear reading section when the light source is turned off are used to detect the open/closed state and the open/close operation of the document cover, wherein the preparation for printing starts when the document cover has shifted from the open state to the closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takeo Katsuda
  • Patent number: 8908196
    Abstract: A print control device including a sheet-base printing speed table that indicates a sheet-base printing speed for each printer; a printing time calculation unit that calculates a printing time associated with a print job based on a printing speed corresponding to a sheet used for the print job by referencing the sheet-base printing speed table; and a first display control unit that displays the print job in a predetermined display mode that has a length proportional to the printing time that is calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8908203
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives print data, an operating unit which receives a print instruction from a user, a display unit which displays a password entry screen for receiving a password entry from a user, and a printing unit which receives a print instruction from a user through the operating unit and prints print data without accepting a password through a password entry screen if a password added to the print data is matched with a fixed password and print data to be printed if a print instruction from a user is received through the operating unit, if the password added to the print data is matched with the fixed password, and if the password received through a password entry screen is matched with the password added to the print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoya Kakutani