Patents by Inventor Michael Philip Kirby

Michael Philip Kirby 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).

  • Evaluating and managing image quality performance and improving service effectiveness of groups of production printers
    Patent number: 9069494
    Abstract: Method and systems maintain historical printing device information from a plurality of printing devices, maintain historical actions performed on the printing devices, and maintain historical print image quality produced by the printing devices within a storage medium of a computerized device. These methods and systems determine which of the historical actions increase the print image quality and which of the historical actions decrease the print image quality, using the computerized device. The methods and systems output an action effectiveness report from the computerized device. The action effectiveness report indicates which of the historical actions increase/decrease the print image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Philip Kirby, Nathan James Weldon, Jr., Timothy D. Thomas, Mehmet Anil Gungor, Cheryl Marie Koenig, Bruce H. Smith
  • Method and apparatus for managing common color profiles for one or more printing devices by a cloud administration system
    Patent number: 8780369
    Abstract: An approach is provided for cloud administrative management of spatial uniformity correction useful in printing. The approach involves determining, by a cloud administration system, an achievable gamut achievable by an imaging system for at least one of: all spatial locations of an output image, all print engines of a plurality of print engines, and at least one printer within a cluster of printers. The approach also involves determining, a mean gamut. The approach further involves causing, at least in part, a gamut mapping from the mean gamut to the achievable gamut. The approach additionally involves determining a set of transformations for each of a set of input colors to a set of target colors, the set of target colors selected from colors in the achievable gamut. The approach further involves causing, at least in part, an output image to be generated based, at least in part, on the transformed values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Robert William Burke, Jr., Michael Philip Kirby
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING COMMON COLOR PROFILES FOR ONE OR MORE PRINTING DEVICES BY A CLOUD ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20130342857
    Abstract: An approach is provided for cloud administrative management of spatial uniformity correction useful in printing. The approach involves determining, by a cloud administration system, an achievable gamut achievable by an imaging system for at least one of: all spatial locations of an output image, all print engines of a plurality of print engines, and at least one printer within a cluster of printers. The approach also involves determining, a mean gamut. The approach further involves causing, at least in part, a gamut mapping from the mean gamut to the achievable gamut. The approach additionally involves determining a set of transformations for each of a set of input colors to a set of target colors, the set of target colors selected from colors in the achievable gamut. The approach further involves causing, at least in part, an output image to be generated based, at least in part, on the transformed values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert William Burke, JR., Michael Philip Kirby
  • EVALUATING AND MANAGING IMAGE QUALITY PERFORMANCE AND IMPROVING SERVICE EFFECTIVENESS OF GROUPS OF PRODUCTION PRINTERS
    Publication number: 20130107313
    Abstract: Method and systems maintain historical printing device information from a plurality of printing devices, maintain historical actions performed on the printing devices, and maintain historical print image quality produced by the printing devices within a storage medium of a computerized device. These methods and systems determine which of the historical actions increase the print image quality and which of the historical actions decrease the print image quality, using the computerized device. The methods and systems output an action effectiveness report from the computerized device. The action effectiveness report indicates which of the historical actions increase/decrease the print image quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Philip Kirby, Nathan James Weldon, JR., Timothy D. Thomas, Mehmet Anil Gungor, Cheryl Marie Koenig, Bruce H. Smith