Patents by Inventor Edwin Philip Lockwood
Edwin Philip Lockwood 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).
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Publication number: 20240311598Abstract: A raster image processor (RIP) system is used in a printing system to process a variety of different jobs. A front end receives the jobs and determines the job type. The job types include a print job, a preview job, and an estimation job. Depending on the type of job, the front end configures the RIPs within RIP system accordingly to process the job. The RIPs may process the job in parallel, with a high performance RIP processing the first page of the job. If the job is not processed in parallel, then the front end assigns the job to a very high performance RIP. The front end also assigns the preview job to a preview RIP and the estimation job to an estimation RIP. The front end configures RIPs as needed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2023Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Jayant BHATT, Arturo BECERRA, Robert T. CUNNINGHAM, Edwin Philip LOCKWOOD, Javier A. MORALES
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Publication number: 20240311597Abstract: A raster image processor (RIP) system is used in a printing system to process a variety of different jobs. A front end receives the jobs and determines the job type. The job types include a print job, a preview job, and an estimation job. Depending on the type of job, the front end configures the RIPs within RIP system accordingly to process the job. The RIPs may process the job in parallel, with a high performance RIP processing the first page of the job. If the job is not processed in parallel, then the front end assigns the job to a very high performance RIP. The front end also assigns the preview job to a preview RIP and the estimation job to an estimation RIP. The front end configures RIPs as needed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2023Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Jayant BHATT, Arturo BECERRA, Robert T. CUNNINGHAM, Edwin Philip LOCKWOOD, Javier A. MORALES
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Publication number: 20240201913Abstract: A printing system includes a digital front end (DFE) system connected to a plurality of printing devices. The DFE system manages printing operations to the plurality of printing devices. The DFE system also includes a printing device connectivity manager to manage connections with the printing devices. Printing connectivity modules are installed at the printing device connectivity manager using application programming interfaces (APIs) that are loaded at the creation of the printing connectivity modules. The APIs allow the printing connectivity modules to interact with the printing devices. The printing connectivity modules can communicate with application modules located at the printing devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Neil-Paul Payoyo BERMUNDO, Edwin Philip LOCKWOOD, Yoshihiro OSADA
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Patent number: 11983585Abstract: A raster image processor (RIP) system is used in a printing system to process a variety of different jobs. A front end receives the jobs and determines the job type. The job types include a print job, a preview job, and an estimation job. Depending on the type of job, the front end configures the RIPs within RIP system accordingly to process the job. The RIPs may process the job in parallel, with a high performance RIP processing the first page of the job. If the job is not processed in parallel, then the front end assigns the job to a very high performance RIP. The front end also assigns the preview job to a preview RIP and the estimation job to an estimation RIP. The front end configures RIPs as needed.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Jayant Bhatt, Arturo Becerra, Robert T. Cunningham, Edwin Philip Lockwood, Javier A. Morales
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Patent number: 11922231Abstract: A printing system includes a digital front end (DFE) system connected to a plurality of printing devices. The DFE system manages printing operations to the plurality of printing devices. The DFE system also includes a printing device connectivity manager to manage connections with the printing devices. Printing connectivity modules are installed at the printing device connectivity manager using application programming interfaces (APIs) that are loaded at the creation of the printing connectivity modules. The DFE system also includes a display device connectivity manager to manage connections with display devices using display connectivity modules and display connectivity APIs. The DFE system also includes a storage connectivity manager to manage data storage and storage devices using storage connectivity modules and storage connectivity APIs.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Neil-Paul Payoyo Bermundo, Edwin Philip Lockwood, Jayant Bhatt, Yoshihiro Osada
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Patent number: 11922078Abstract: A printing system includes a digital front end (DFE) system connected to a plurality of printing devices. The DFE system manages printing operations to the plurality of printing devices. The DFE system also includes a printing device connectivity manager to manage connections with the printing devices. Printing connectivity modules are installed at the printing device connectivity manager using application programming interfaces (APIs) that are loaded at the creation of the printing connectivity modules. The DFE system also includes a display device connectivity manager to manage connections with display devices using display connectivity modules and display connectivity APIs. The DFE system also includes a storage connectivity manager to manage data storage and storage devices using storage connectivity modules and storage connectivity APIs.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Neil-Paul Payoyo Bermundo, Edwin Philip Lockwood, Jayant Bhatt, Yoshihiro Osada
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Patent number: 11853630Abstract: A printing system includes a digital front end (DFE) system connected to a plurality of printing devices. The DFE system manages printing operations to the plurality of printing devices. The DFE system also includes a printing device connectivity manager to manage connections with the printing devices. Printing connectivity modules are installed at the printing device connectivity manager using application programming interfaces (APIs) that are loaded at the creation of the printing connectivity modules. The APIs allow the printing connectivity modules to interact with the printing devices. The printing connectivity modules can communicate with application modules located at the printing devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Neil-Paul Payoyo Bermundo, Edwin Philip Lockwood, Yoshihiro Osada
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Publication number: 20230294258Abstract: A printing system includes a digital front end (DFB) system connected to a plurality of printing devices. The DFE system manages printing operations to the plurality of printing devices. The DFE system also includes a printing device connectivity manager to manage connections with the printing devices. Printing connectivity modules are installed at the printing device connectivity manager using application programming interfaces (APIs) that are loaded at the creation of the printing connectivity modules. The DFE system also includes a display device connectivity manager to manage connections with display devices using display connectivity modules and display connectivity APIs. The DFE system also includes a storage connectivity manager to manage data storage and storage devices using storage connectivity modules and storage connectivity APIs.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Neil-Paul Payoyo BERMUNDO, Edwin Philip LOCKWOOD, Jayant BHATT, Yoshihiro OSADA
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Patent number: 10331392Abstract: Example systems and related methods may relate to monitoring performance of an image forming operation. Namely, a system includes an image forming apparatus configured to execute an operation in response to receiving instructions to execute the operation. The system further includes an external sensor circuit that includes one or more sensors and a processor. The one or more sensors are configured to detect a status of an operational parameter of the image forming apparatus indicative of the image forming apparatus executing the operation and receive an instruction to exclude at least a portion of data used to detect the status of the operational parameter. The system further includes a host computing device. The host computing device is configured to generate a plurality of timestamps indicative of when the image forming apparatus executed the operation and a time frame when the external sensor circuit excluded data.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Edwin Philip Lockwood, Neil-Paul Payoyo Bermundo, Luis David Barriere, Jr.
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Publication number: 20190179580Abstract: Example systems and related methods may relate to monitoring performance of an image forming operation. Namely, a system includes an image forming apparatus configured to execute an operation in response to receiving instructions to execute the operation. The system further includes an external sensor circuit that includes one or more sensors and a processor. The one or more sensors are configured to detect a status of an operational parameter of the image forming apparatus indicative of the image forming apparatus executing the operation and receive an instruction to exclude at least a portion of data used to detect the status of the operational parameter. The system further includes a host computing device. The host computing device is configured to generate a plurality of timestamps indicative of when the image forming apparatus executed the operation and a time frame when the external sensor circuit excluded data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2018Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Edwin Philip Lockwood, Neil-Paul Payoyo Bermundo, Luis David Barriere, JR.
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Patent number: 10241735Abstract: Example systems and related methods may relate to monitoring performance of an image forming operation. Namely, a system includes an image forming apparatus configured to execute an operation in response to receiving instructions to execute the operation. The system further includes an external sensor circuit that includes one or more sensors and a processor. The one or more sensors are configured to detect a status of a first operational parameter of the image forming apparatus indicative of the image forming apparatus executing the operation and detect a status of a second operational parameter of the image forming apparatus indicative of the image forming apparatus executing an intervening operation. The system further includes a host computing device. The host computing device is configured to generate a plurality of timestamps indicative of when the image forming apparatus executed the operation and when the image forming apparatus executed the intervening operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Edwin Philip Lockwood, Neil-Paul Payoyo Bermundo, Luis David Barriere, Jr.
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Patent number: 10073654Abstract: Example systems and related methods may relate to monitoring performance of an image forming operation. Namely, a system may include an image forming apparatus configured to execute an operation. The system further includes an external sensor circuit comprising one or more sensors and a processor. The system yet further includes a host computing device configured to generate, in response to receiving notifications of a status of the operational parameter received from the one or more processors of the sensor circuit, a first timestamp indicative of when the image forming apparatus started to execute the printing operation, and a second timestamp indicative of when the image forming apparatus completed the printing operation. The host computing device is further configured to generate a log file. Data of the log file includes the first timestamp and the second timestamp, and is indicative of how quickly the image forming apparatus executed the operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2017Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventor: Edwin Philip Lockwood
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Publication number: 20180035010Abstract: A printing system generating a personalized banner page has a client device that transmits print data. An image forming device receives the print data transmitted by the client device. A banner creation module is in communication with the client device and the image forming device. The banner creation module transmits a user selected personalized indicia to be inserted on a banner page to be printed with the print data to identify the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2016Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: EDWIN PHILIP LOCKWOOD
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Patent number: 9414079Abstract: Example systems and related methods may relate to compressing a plurality of data channels. An example embodiment may include a controller determining a plurality of interleave allocations within a memory allocation. The interleave allocations correspond to a plurality of planes, which may represent color information planes. The plurality of data channels may be compressed into a plurality of compressed data channels. Subsequently, each of the plurality of compressed data channels may be stored at respective interleave allocations. A full interleave allocation condition may be determined based on a capacity of a respective interleave allocation being less than a predetermined threshold. In response to determining the full interleave allocation condition, a new interleave allocation may be requested from the controller. In response, the controller may determine a new interleave allocation.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Edwin Philip Lockwood