Patents by Inventor Akihiro KUNIMATSU

Akihiro KUNIMATSU has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230166535
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program set including a first program and a second program readable by a computer of an information processing device, the first program causing the information process device to register paper pre-set data to a paper information table in which a first correction value for correcting image data and paper information are associated, and the second program causing the information process device to: generate a list by referring to in the paper information table; send the generated list to an application program; obtain the first correction value corresponding to the paper pre-set data set in print setting from the paper information table; correct the received image data by using the obtained first correction value; and transmit a printing command for performing printing based on the corrected image data to a printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventor: Akihiro Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 11659125
    Abstract: Provided is technology by which an information processing device having an OS standard printing program installed therein causes a printer to perform collate printing without applying a load to the printer. In a case where a print instruction that causes a printer to execute printing of an image is output from an editing application to a general-purpose print program installed in an OS to cause the printer to execute collate printing in a job based on the print instruction an auxiliary program causes a CPU of a PC to acquire print data of one copy rasterized based on the image having the plurality of pages, and to cause the PC to transmit the acquired print data of the one copy to the printer as a transmission destination one copy by one copy over the N copies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 11630616
    Abstract: According to aspects of the present disclosure, when a print instruction is input from an editing application to a general-use printing program, and image data included in the print instruction contains barcode information indicating a barcode, a support program corresponding to a printer generates substitute image. The substitute image is generated by the general-use printing program and substitutes for an image of the barcode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 11604613
    Abstract: An non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer installed in an information processing device to execute a process corresponding to a printer connected to the information processing device. The process includes receiving image data for images of a plurality of pages from a general-purpose print program which is pre-installed in an OS of the computer, generating composite image data corresponding to an composite image which is generated by reducing images of the plurality of pages in size and arranging the reduced images for the N pages so that the reduced images fit on one surface of the sheet, from the image data received in the receiving of the image data, and causing the information processing device to transmit print data which is rasterized based on the composite image data to the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiro Kunimatsu
  • Publication number: 20220159142
    Abstract: Provided is technology by which an information processing device having an OS standard printing program installed therein causes a printer to perform collate printing without applying a load to the printer. In a case where a print instruction that causes a printer to execute printing of an image is output from an editing application to a general-purpose print program installed in an OS to cause the printer to execute collate printing in a job based on the print instruction an auxiliary program causes a CPU of a PC to acquire print data of one copy rasterized based on the image having the plurality of pages, and to cause the PC to transmit the acquired print data of the one copy to the printer as a transmission destination one copy by one copy over the N copies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventor: Akihiro KUNIMATSU
  • Patent number: 11277540
    Abstract: Provided is technology by which an information processing device having an OS standard printing program installed therein causes a printer to perform collate printing without applying a load to the printer. In a case where a print instruction that causes a printer to execute printing of an image is output from an editing application to a general-purpose print program installed in an OS to cause the printer to execute collate printing in a job based on the print instruction an auxiliary program causes a CPU of a PC to acquire print data of one copy rasterized based on the image having the plurality of pages, and to cause the PC to transmit the acquired print data of the one copy to the printer as a transmission destination one copy by one copy over the N copies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Kunimatsu
  • Publication number: 20220011990
    Abstract: According to aspects of the present disclosure, when a print instruction is input from an editing application to a general-use printing program, and image data included in the print instruction contains barcode information indicating a barcode, a support program corresponding to a printer generates substitute image. The substitute image is generated by the general-use printing program and substitutes for an image of the barcode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventor: Akihiro KUNIMATSU
  • Patent number: 11086578
    Abstract: When a general-use printing program implemented in an OS of an information processing apparatus receives a print instruction, a supporting program implemented in a PC determines, based on a print parameter or image data indicating at least one image subjected to be printed, whether a distribution condition is satisfied. The distribution condition is a condition to execute distributed printing of the image data using a plurality of printers. When it is determined that the distribution condition is satisfied, the supporting program transmits a part of a total printing amount of a print job to a printer through a first port which is used by a general-use printing program and transmits a remaining part of the total amount of the print job to another printer through a second port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiro Kunimatsu
  • Publication number: 20210218864
    Abstract: Provided is technology by which an information processing device having an OS standard printing program installed therein causes a printer to perform collate printing without applying a load to the printer. In a case where a print instruction that causes a printer to execute printing of an image is output from an editing application to a general-purpose print program installed in an OS to cause the printer to execute collate printing in a job based on the print instruction an auxiliary program causes a CPU of a PC to acquire print data of one copy rasterized based on the image having the plurality of pages, and to cause the PC to transmit the acquired print data of the one copy to the printer as a transmission destination one copy by one copy over the N copies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventor: Akihiro KUNIMATSU
  • Publication number: 20210216250
    Abstract: An non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer installed in an information processing device to execute a process corresponding to a printer connected to the information processing device. The process includes receiving image data for images of a plurality of pages from a general-purpose print program which is pre-installed in an OS of the computer, generating composite image data corresponding to an composite image which is generated by reducing images of the plurality of pages in size and arranging the reduced images for the N pages so that the reduced images fit on one surface of the sheet, from the image data received in the receiving of the image data, and causing the information processing device to transmit print data which is rasterized based on the composite image data to the printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventor: Akihiro KUNIMATSU
  • Patent number: 11064088
    Abstract: When a print instruction is input to a general-use printing program implemented in an OS, the supporting program implemented in a PC determines whether a switching condition is satisfied based on a print parameter or print data generated by the general-use printing program. The switching condition is a condition for switching a port to be used to transmit the print data from a first port to a second port. The first port is a port used by the general-use printing program. When it is determined that switching condition is satisfied, the supporting program switches the port to the second port, and performs a process for transmitting the print data to the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 10893163
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores instructions which cause, when executed by a processor, a computer to obtaining designated data and designated condition information. The designated data includes the image data and, the designated condition information indicates multiple designated parameters respectively corresponding to multiple items constituting an execution condition for an outputting operation. The instructions cause the computer to transmit parameter request information to a server, receive parameter instruction information including recommendable parameters associated with the group identifying information from the server as a response to the parameter request information, cause the image outputting device to execute the outputting operation using the recommendable parameters included in the parameter instruction information as the parameters for the particular items, and using the designated parameters for the other items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 10891087
    Abstract: A print system comprising an information processing apparatus, a printer and a server which are interconnected through a network. When receiving the unprocessed print data from the printer, the server performs, based on the received unprocessed print data, obtaining a transmission source identifying information identifying a transmission source of the unprocessed print data and the information processing apparatus which delivers the unprocessed image data to the printer, applying the image processing, which corresponds to the second identifying information associated with the first identifying information identifying a device same as a device identified by the transmission source identifying information as obtained, to the unprocessed print data, and transmitting processed print data which is the print data to which the image processing has been applied to the printer. When the printer receives the processed print data form the server, the printer performs printing based on the processed print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Kunimatsu
  • Publication number: 20200257479
    Abstract: When a general-use printing program implemented in an OS of an information processing apparatus receives a print instruction, a supporting program implemented in a PC determines, based on a print parameter or image data indicating at least one image subjected to be printed, whether a distribution condition is satisfied. The distribution condition is a condition to execute distributed printing of the image data using a plurality of printers. When it is determined that the distribution condition is satisfied, the supporting program transmits a part of a total printing amount of a print job to a printer through a first port which is used by a general-use printing program and transmits a remaining part of the total amount of the print job to another printer through a second port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Akihiro KUNIMATSU
  • Publication number: 20200252519
    Abstract: When a print instruction is input to a general-use printing program implemented in an OS, the supporting program implemented in a PC determines whether a switching condition is satisfied based on a print parameter or print data generated by the general-use printing program. The switching condition is a condition for switching a port to be used to transmit the print data from a first port to a second port. The first port is a port used by the general-use printing program. When it is determined that switching condition is satisfied, the supporting program switches the port to the second port, and performs a process for transmitting the print data to the printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventor: Akihiro KUNIMATSU
  • Publication number: 20200174720
    Abstract: A print system comprising an information processing apparatus, a printer and a server which are interconnected through a network. When receiving the unprocessed print data from the printer, the server performs, based on the received unprocessed print data, obtaining a transmission source identifying information identifying a transmission source of the unprocessed print data and the information processing apparatus which delivers the unprocessed image data to the printer, applying the image processing, which corresponds to the second identifying information associated with the first identifying information identifying a device same as a device identified by the transmission source identifying information as obtained, to the unprocessed print data, and transmitting processed print data which is the print data to which the image processing has been applied to the printer. When the printer receives the processed print data form the server, the printer performs printing based on the processed print data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Akihiro KUNIMATSU
  • Publication number: 20200128147
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores instructions which cause, when executed by a processor, a computer to obtaining designated data and designated condition information. The designated data includes the image data and, the designated condition information indicates multiple designated parameters respectively corresponding to multiple items constituting an execution condition for an outputting operation. The instructions cause the computer to transmit parameter request information to a server, receive parameter instruction information including recommendable parameters associated with the group identifying information from the server as a response to the parameter request information, cause the image outputting device to execute the outputting operation using the recommendable parameters included in the parameter instruction information as the parameters for the particular items, and using the designated parameters for the other items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventor: Akihiro KUNIMATSU
  • Patent number: 10516796
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores instructions which cause, when executed by a processor, a computer to obtaining designated data and designated condition information. The designated data includes the image data and, the designated condition information indicates multiple designated parameters respectively corresponding to multiple items constituting an execution condition for an outputting operation. The instructions cause the computer to transmit parameter request information to a server, receive parameter instruction information including recommendable parameters associated with the group identifying information from the server as a response to the parameter request information, cause the image outputting device to execute the outputting operation using the recommendable parameters included in the parameter instruction information as the parameters for the particular items, and using the designated parameters for the other items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Kunimatsu
  • Publication number: 20190149685
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores instructions which cause, when executed by a processor, a computer to obtaining designated data and designated condition information. The designated data includes the image data and, the designated condition information indicates multiple designated parameters respectively corresponding to multiple items constituting an execution condition for an outputting operation. The instructions cause the computer to transmit parameter request information to a server, receive parameter instruction information including recommendable parameters associated with the group identifying information from the server as a response to the parameter request information, cause the image outputting device to execute the outputting operation using the recommendable parameters included in the parameter instruction information as the parameters for the particular items, and using the designated parameters for the other items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventor: Akihiro KUNIMATSU
  • Patent number: 10218868
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores instructions which cause, when executed by a processor, a computer to obtaining designated data and designated condition information. The designated data includes the image data and, the designated condition information indicates multiple designated parameters respectively corresponding to multiple items constituting an execution condition for an outputting operation. The instructions cause the computer to transmit parameter request information to a server, receive parameter instruction information including recommendable parameters associated with the group identifying information from the server as a response to the parameter request information, cause the image outputting device to execute the outputting operation using the recommendable parameters included in the parameter instruction information as the parameters for the particular items, and using the designated parameters for the other items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Kunimatsu