Patents Issued in February 1, 2007
  • Publication number: 20070024858
    Abstract: The inner surface shape of a hole, in particular, the inner surface shape of a hole the entry of which is narrow and which becomes wider further in from the entry, can be measured at a high level of accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: Susumu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20070024859
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to determine the refractive index and/or compensation of the influence of the refractive index during interferometric length measurement with the aid of an interferometer (13, 13?) impinged upon by at least two measuring beams (V2, V3) having at least defined frequencies with an approximately harmonic ratio. Interferometric phases are evaluated for the at least two measuring beams (V2, V3) at the outlet of said interferometer. The interferometric phases corresponding to the harmonic ratio of the frequencies of the measuring beams (V2, V3) are multiplicated and at least one phase difference of the thus formed phase value is examined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: Bernd Bodermann
  • Publication number: 20070024860
    Abstract: An absolute distance measuring device based on laser interferometry may combine coarse, intermediate, and highest resolution measurement techniques to find the absolute distance to a sample surface with high resolution. The device may provide at least two laser wavelengths simultaneously, to allow reduction or elimination of certain common-mode error components, including dynamic error components. The device may scan at least one of the laser wavelengths over a relatively narrow range and may use quadrature detectors to provide enough signal data to allow certain self-corrections to be performed on the resulting scanned signals and measurements. A novel tunable laser and/or quadrature detector may provide advantages in combination with the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph Tobiason, David Sesko
  • Publication number: 20070024861
    Abstract: A laser tracking interferometer; a carriage rotatable about a center of the reference sphere; a laser interferometer that provides a retroreflector displacement signal, and a displacement gage that provides a displacement signal. A data processing apparatus computes displacement of the retroreflector with respect to the reference sphere. A position sensitive detector provides a position signal corresponding to the amount of deviation of a laser beam when the laser beam is reflected off the retroreflector back into the laser interferometer and deviated in a direction orthogonal to its optical axis. A controller controls rotation of the carriage based on the position signal from the position detector so that the amount of deviation becomes zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichirou Yanaka, Makoto Abe, Shinichi Hara, Naoyuki Taketomi
  • Publication number: 20070024862
    Abstract: A first beam having high coherence and a second beam having low coherence are multiplexed onto the same optical axis. This multiplexed beam is split into first and second multiplexed beams. The first multiplexed beam is directed towards a measurement reflection plane of an object to be measured, and the second multiplexed beam is directed towards a reference plane. The first and second multiplexed beams that are reflected from the measurement reflection plane and the reference plane, respectively, are multiplexed to cause the first beams to interfere with each other and the second beams to interfere with each other. Calculations are carried out to determine a measurement origin on the basis of the first and second interference signals obtained from the first and second beams, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidejiro Kadowaki, Ko Ishizuka, Shigeki Kato
  • Publication number: 20070024863
    Abstract: A first beam having high coherence and a second beam having low coherence and having a central wavelength difference from that of the first beam are multiplexed onto the same optical axis. First and second multiplexed beams obtained by beam splitting are emitted at a measurement reflection plane and a reference plane, respectively. The reflected first and second multiplexed beams are multiplexed and interfere with each other. The interference generates a first interference signal that is obtained from the first beams at the interference unit and that relates to information on the distance to the measurement reflection plane and a second interference signal that is obtained from the second beams. The first and second interference signals are used to carry out calculations for determining the position of a measurement origin for the measurement reflection plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidejiro Kadowaki, Ko Ishizuka, Shigeki Kato
  • Publication number: 20070024864
    Abstract: A position measurement apparatus includes a movable stage structure, a measurement unit using a laser to measure a moved position of the stage and to output a corresponding measured value, a first filter configured to attenuate a first component of a certain frequency region of the measured value outputted by said measurement unit, a second filter connected in parallel with said first filter configured to attenuate a second component other than the certain frequency region of the measured value outputted by said measurement unit, a third filter connected in series to said second filter with the series connection of said second and third filters connected in parallel with the first filter, configured to attenuate the first component of said certain frequency region of the measured value outputted by said measurement unit, and a synthetic unit configured to combine an output of said first filter and an output of the series connection of the second and third filters and to thereby output a first combined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Tachikawa, Kazumichi Yasui, Kiyoshi Nakaso, Kiyoshi Hattori, Tsugiyuki Okuya, Makoto Mita
  • Publication number: 20070024865
    Abstract: An optical encoder includes a source of a light beam, an optical grating that generates a spatial pattern of interference fringes, and an optical detector which includes generally elongated detector elements that sample the interference fringe pattern at spatially separated locations along the direction of motion of the grating. Each detector element has one or more segments slanted along the direction of motion of the grating by an integer multiple of the period of an undesirable harmonic component of the fringe pattern, thereby spatially integrating the harmonic component and suppressing its contribution to an output of the detector. One specific detector type includes parallel elongated rectangular elements in a rectangular array that is rotated slightly about a Z axis; another type includes detector elements arranged to form a non-rectangular parallelogram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Donald Mitchell, William Thorburn
  • Publication number: 20070024866
    Abstract: A method of combining holograms or phase images of an object is disclosed, where attributes of the data used to record two phase images of overlapping portions of the surface of an object are compared and used to match pixels of the two recordings. A relative tilt angle and direction correction is added, and a third phase image is generated. Phase images of objects which are too large to be imaged in an interferometric imaging system can thus be produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: Coherix, Inc
    Inventors: Jon Nisper, Mike Mater, Alex Klooster, Zhenhua Huang
  • Publication number: 20070024867
    Abstract: Multiwavelength interferometric images have the phase and/or frequency of the illuminating light corrected by statistically analyzing the data, and adjusting the phase and/or frequency until a statistical measure reaches a criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: Coherix, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Mater
  • Publication number: 20070024868
    Abstract: An interferometer system includes an optical radiation source, an optical circulator connected between the optical radiation source and a sample location for transmitting optical radiation from the optical radiation-source to the sample location, an output of the optical circulator connected to direct optical radiation to an optical detector. Various embodiments of such a system are possible. A method of performing OCDR or OCT imaging of a sample which involves the steps of: (a) producing low coherence optical radiation; (b) directing at least some of the low coherence optical radiation through an optical circulator to the sample; (c) reflecting at least some of the low coherence optical radiation off of the sample; and (d) detecting at least some of the reflected low coherence optical radiation and producing an electrical signal corresponding thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicants: UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND, CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Joseph Izatt, Andrew Rollins
  • Publication number: 20070024869
    Abstract: Diffraction grating based fiber optic interferometric systems for use in optical coherence tomography, wherein sample and reference light beams are formed by a first beam splitter and the sample light beam received from a sample and a reference light beam are combined on a second beam splitter. In one embodiment, the first beam splitter is an approximately 50/50 beam splitter, and the second beam splitter is a non 50/50 beam splitter. More than half of the energy of the sample light beam is directed into the combined beam and less than half of the energy of the reference light beam are directed into the combined beam by the second beam splitter. In another embodiment, the first beam splitter is a non 50/50 beam splitter and the second beam splitter is an approximately 50/50 beam splitter. An optical circulator is provided to enable the sample light beam to bypass the first beam splitter after interaction with a sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Isaac Ostrovsky, Mark Modell, Robert Crowley
  • Publication number: 20070024870
    Abstract: The present invention provides apparatuses and methods for determining spatial information of a workpiece surface positioned in a predetermined coordinate system. Apparatuses and methods of the present invention can be used to determine one or more coordinates of one or more measurement locations of a workpiece within a predetermined coordinate system. Such coordinates can be used to define points, lines, and/or surfaces of the workpiece within the coordinate system. In one exemplary application, apparatuses and methods of the present invention can be used to determine spatial information of surfaces of head suspensions or head suspension assemblies such as those that are generally utilized in dynamic storage devices such as magnetic disk drives. Such spatial information can be used to determine z-height and/or static attitude, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Mark Girard, David Swift, Joseph Tracy
  • Publication number: 20070024871
    Abstract: A method for measuring the thickness of a film is based on monitoring a transient change of the reflectivity of the film following an impulsive heating. The method includes the steps of impulsively irradiating a surface of the film with an excitation pulse to cause a rise in temperature in the film; irradiating the surface of the film with a probe beam, such that it reflects off the surface of the film to generate a reflected probe beam; detecting a time-dependent variation in intensity of the reflected probe beam; generating a signal waveform based on the measured variations in intensity; and determining the thickness of the film based on the signal waveform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: Alexei Maznev
  • Publication number: 20070024872
    Abstract: A document generation system includes a printing system and a computer. The printing system includes a print engine, a scanner, a controller and a user interface. The computer is remotely located from but coupled to the printing system. The computer includes software for generating an electronic document and software for designating an insertion point in the electronic document wherein a scanned image of a hardcopy document is to be inserted prior to generating a finished document including the electronic document and an image of the scanned hardcopy document. The controller includes software for identifying the insertion point and for holding the electronic document until the hardcopy document is scanned before generating the finished document including the electronic document and the image of the scanned hardcopy document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: David Salgado
  • Publication number: 20070024873
    Abstract: There is disclosed an image forming apparatus, a program for printing with marks added, and a method for printing with marks added, which facilitate adding of marks to print data and reediting thereof. The image forming apparatus performs printing of data constituted by print data added with marks, and comprises: a print data storage section that stores print data; a marking data storage section that stores, as marking data, a character attribute indicative of a preset expression method such as character decoration; and a marking-printing section that prints a result of applying the character attribute to the print data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazumi Murata, Makoto Harigae
  • Publication number: 20070024874
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can operate under the control of an operating system configured to allow changing an enlargement rate in units of job and can generate print data corresponding to a plurality of pages to be printed by a printing apparatus. A setting input unit inputs borderless print settings for performing a borderless printing and bordered print settings for performing a bordered printing applied to a predetermined page. An enlargement designation unit instructs an enlargement rate to the operating system, a decision unit determines whether a page to be processed is the predetermined page, a margin creation unit forms a margin in a peripheral region of the data enlarged by the operating system, and, a print data generation unit generates print data corresponding to a plurality of pages to be printed by the printing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20070024875
    Abstract: A user terminal device implemented with a system for and method of setting a borderless function includes an object extracting part extracting the object including font and image from the data to be printed; a driver creating printing data by either enlarging or reducing the image corresponding to the paper size, and resetting the font location, out of the extracted objects; and an interfacing part of an image forming apparatus transmitting the created printing data to the image forming apparatus. Accordingly, a font is prevented from being distorted when the borderless function is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Myoung-jin Oh
  • Publication number: 20070024876
    Abstract: A printer that includes a multi-colorant print cartridge is described. The printer can determine if a level of a most depleted colorant in the multi-colorant cartridge and a level of a least depleted colorant in the multi-colorant cartridge meet predetermined criteria. The printer can, if the criteria are met, perform a default printing procedure to print the document. The printer can, if the criteria are not met, perform an alternative printing procedure to print the document. The alternative printing procedure uses more of the least depleted colorant to print the document as compared to the default printing procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: Jeffrey Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20070024877
    Abstract: A co-punctual center color (such as co-punctual point PTD) is set from a color which cannot be seen or is hardly seen. A gray scale gradation value corresponding to a color difference of the color of the pixel for the co-punctual center color is calculated on pixel unit form the color original image and a gray scale is created. According to this gray scale, a gray scale image or a gradation image of the similar color is created and displayed. Alternatively, a color name of the point specified in the color original image is displayed. By executing the processing by using a camera-equipped mobile telephone, a color-sense abnormal person can identify the color which he/see cannot correctly see and know the color name without feeling any constraint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: Hiroshi OSUMI
    Inventors: Hiroshi Osumi, Mitsuaki Katsuya, Hiroshi Fukuda, Shogo Uematsu, Atsushi Murakami, Isao Ishimoto, Shuji Hirai
  • Publication number: 20070024878
    Abstract: The present application relates to a printing system in which a printing apparatus can produce print data utilizing image enhanced data stored in the printing apparatus without complicated calculation on the side of the printing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: Ken Ota
  • Publication number: 20070024879
    Abstract: A method for forming a final digital color image includes capturing an image using an image sensor having panchromatic pixels and color pixels corresponding to at least two color photoresponses; providing from the captured image a digital panchromatic image and an intermediate digital color image; and using the digital panchromatic image and the intermediate digital color image to provide the final digital color image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: John Hamilton, John Compton
  • Publication number: 20070024880
    Abstract: There is known a technique of inputting the contents of image data and the use purpose of a print material and automatically selecting a combination of color materials appropriate for them. However, it cannot be confirmed before printing whether improvement of image quality commensurate with the cost and labor to input contents information can be obtained. To solve this problem, the ratio of the amount of the color material of a spot color used to that of the color materials of process colors used in input image data is calculated. The recommendation grade of printing using the spot color is determined on the basis of the ratio. Further, display of the recommendation grade is controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoko Sato, Shinichi Kato, Tsutomu Sakaue, Ritsuko Otake, Yoichi Kashibuchi
  • Publication number: 20070024881
    Abstract: The present invention further improves gradation characteristics from a highlight region to a high-density region. First, the correction processing receives image data, and an image attribute discrimination discriminates whether the data are related to a character/thin line or others on the basis of attribute information on a pixel of interest. If it is discriminated that the data are related to a character/thin line, a pattern matching to data stored in a line buffer is performed to obtain a pixel distance, and in accordance with the pixel distance, a correction amount is determined on the basis of an LUT set in a correction amount determination. Subsequently, on the basis of the determined correction amount, corrected image data are generated and output to the following step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohito Ishida, Isami Itoh, Tetsuya Atsumi, Masatsugu Toyonori
  • Publication number: 20070024882
    Abstract: Systems and methods of rendering images may include rendering images by coupling a first rendering device and a second rendering device, obtaining electronic image data comprising a first image data and a second image data, and providing at least the first image data to the first rendering device and providing at least the second image data to the second rendering device. The systems and methods may also include rendering a first image on a recording medium based on the first image data using the first rendering device, transferring the recording medium from the first rendering device to the second rendering device, and rendering a second image on the recording medium based on the second image data using the second rendering device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Hoffman, Peter Fisher
  • Publication number: 20070024883
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus constructing a color table corresponding to a kind of recording material, provided is an image forming apparatus which includes an engine controlling unit for outputting a vertical synchronizing signal in consideration of a time required for a controller to construct the color table. The engine controlling unit and the controller are included. The engine controlling unit notifies the controller of an assumed kind of recording material and the kind of recording material actually detected. When the two are not identical, the controller reconstructs the color table corresponding to the detected kind of recording material. The engine controlling unit does not output, to the controller, the vertical synchronizing signal for outputting image data during the time when the controller constructs the color table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuichi Yoshizawa, Atsuya Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20070024884
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus having an interface with a removable medium is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes an image data input part configured to input image data, an image processing part configured to process the input image data, an image data storing part configured to store the processed image data in the removable medium, and an image data output part configured to output the stored image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Tomoaki Yano, Miki Kouchi, Tetsuo Asakawa, Rie Nakamura, Akihiro Kakoi, Yoshinori Furuichi
  • Publication number: 20070024885
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method of printing a plurality of pages on a single page in a portable document format (PDF) direct printing, the apparatus including: a data input module to receive a PDF document; a user interface to receive an input number of pages to be printed on a single page; a controller arranged to convert the received PDF document to printing data according to the input number of pages; and a printing module to print in PDF direct printing the printing data obtained from the controller corresponding to the input number of pages on a single page. Accordingly, a plurality of pages can be respectively printed on one or more corresponding pages in PDF direct printing as in printing using a printer driver by converting an input PDF document to a PostScript language according to a ratio corresponding to the input number of pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoon-young Kim
  • Publication number: 20070024886
    Abstract: An image processing device determines, based on an IP address received from an external device, whether any processing according to information received from the external device should be performed or not. A path of communication with the external device is examined from a network address. When the external device that is a transmission source of information is an external device outside a predetermined range, specifically, for example, when the external device is an external device connected to a communication network that is further external to the communication network connected to the image processing device, the image processing device inhibits any processing that follows an image data processing command received from the external device. The image processing device also inhibits any processing that follows a command of adjusting the image processing device which command is received from outside the predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Okamoto, Shuhji Fujii, Toshihiro Yamanaka, Syouichirou Yoshiura
  • Publication number: 20070024887
    Abstract: An image forming device is disclosed which prevents the user from abandoning printed matter in a paper discharge tray when printing is executed by transmitting a print command from a terminal. The image forming device includes an identification unit, a determination unit, a decision unit, and a processing unit. The identification unit identifies a user who has transmitted a print command from a terminal. The determination unit determines whether or not printed matter produced based on a previous print command has been abandoned in the paper discharge tray. The decision unit sets a restriction on the execution of the print command transmitted by the user identified by means of the identification unit, based on the determination results from the determination unit. The processing unit processes the print command in accordance with the restriction set by the decision unit when the print command is transmitted from the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoichiro Hayashi, Yasuhiko Kida
  • Publication number: 20070024888
    Abstract: A system and methods enable the protection of valuable media from theft or other improper access by people who might use the media for dishonest, illegitimate, or criminal purposes. An evaluation of a print job results in a determination regarding whether the print job is suspected of being an attempt to improperly access blank, valuable media. A suspect print job can be stopped or canceled, and a message can be sent which notifies an appropriate administrator of the possibility that an illegitimate attempt has been made to acquire blank, valuable media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Eliot Bailey, Daniel Lay, Erica Saxton, Marty Dixon
  • Publication number: 20070024889
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention generally relates to a method for providing printing services. A database is configured to store data related to a plurality of print engines. The data includes static and time-varying characteristics for each of the print engines of the plurality of print engines. A first print engine is selected from the plurality of print engines. A print job is initiated for the first print engine. The print job is processed at a remote printing service based on data related to the first print engine to create a first print engine print file. The first print engine file is provided to the first print engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: George Eldridge
  • Publication number: 20070024890
    Abstract: There is disclosed an image forming apparatus, image forming apparatus control program, and image forming apparatus control method which facilitate permission to access a document file. The image forming apparatus comprises: a document file registration section which creates a document file according to an instruction from a first user and registers the document file together with a contact address of the first user; an information obtaining section which receives an access request for access to the document file, according to an instruction from a second user, obtains a contact address of the second user, based on the access request, and obtains the contact address of the first user from the document file; a permission request sending section which sends, to the contact address of the first or second user, a permission request for permission to access the document file; and a document file sending section which sends the document file to the second user if the permission is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazumi Murata
  • Publication number: 20070024891
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus and a control method thereof that provides a convenient print resume when printing is halted. The control method of the image forming apparatus includes obtaining image data to be printed which are selected among image data stored in a memory card, printing the selected image data, preparing a print list for the selected image data, if a printing operation is interrupted, preparing a list of image data suspended from printing and storing the list of unprinted image data. Therefore, although the printing operation may be interrupted before all image data to be printed are completely printed, the list of image data suspended from printing stored in the memory card makes it more convenient for a user to resume the printing operation on the unprinted image data without repeating the routine, namely, selecting image data to be printed and resetting the print options, to print the unprinted image data afterwards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong-im Kim
  • Publication number: 20070024892
    Abstract: A security printing control method and apparatus using the location of a user, and a printing system thereof are provided. The printing system allows a print operation to be performed only when the user is in a print allowance area around a printing apparatus. The security printing control method includes detecting information regarding a location of a user, determining whether or not the user is in a print allowance area on the basis of the detected location information, and allowing a corresponding document to be printed if the user is in the print allowance area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: Young-Taek Cho
  • Publication number: 20070024893
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus. A user registers biometric information at the information processing apparatus. When the user subsequently gives a printing command at the information processing apparatus, print data and the registered biometric information are sent to the image forming apparatus but the print data are not printed until the user enters matching biometric information at the image forming apparatus. This scheme prevents unwanted people from seeing the printed output, without requiring the user to register biometric data at the image forming apparatus, carry an identification card, or remember a password. The biometric information may also be used to encrypt the print data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: Takaaki Hosoda
  • Publication number: 20070024894
    Abstract: A printing system and method is provided. The printing system includes one or more printing system modules, at least one media sheet path interfacing the printing system modules, and a job scheduler for executing one or more printing system print jobs. The job scheduler routes a media sheet to one or more printing system modules for preshrinking or preenlarging without marking and subsequently routes the preshrunk or preenlarged media sheet to one or more printing system modules for marking. The method of printing includes generating a print job to be printed using one or more printing system modules. Print jobs requiring two or more printing system modules for marking are executed by routing a media sheet to one or more printing system modules for preshrinking or preenlarging without marking, and subsequently routing the preshrunk or preenlarged media sheet to the one or more printing modules for marking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Steven Moore, Joannes de Jong, Matthew Dondiego, Vittorio Castelli, Lloyd Williams
  • Publication number: 20070024895
    Abstract: In a network system having a plurality of computers and a plurality of commonly accessible printers, at least two printers are enabled to selectively forward at least a portion of a print task to an alternative printer. The forwarding is an automated response to a comparison of current print capabilities of the forwarding-enabled printer to requirements of the specific print task. Each forwarding-enabled printer is “environmentally aware” with respect to other commonly accessible printers of the network. The awareness may be with respect to the physical locations, the inherent capabilities, and/or the current resource availabilities of the other printers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: Gordon Clark
  • Publication number: 20070024896
    Abstract: The present application relates to a printing system in which a location of each printer can be displayed with a graphic map showing a layout of an office.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: Dahmane Bounar
  • Publication number: 20070024897
    Abstract: Descriptions can describe or contain document contents and layout. Some contents can be images and, instead of being included as image data in the description, can be image references. An image reference can be used to obtain an image, in the form of image data, from an image server. A printer can print the document after obtaining needed images from image servers. The image data often contains an image whose resolution does not match the resolution that the printer can properly print in the document. The image server can prepare image data with the correct resolution or can stream image data through a data connection to the printer in a hierarchical image format. A printer can receive a stream of hierarchically formatted image data until a desired resolution is reached and then simply close the data connection to cut off the stream of image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Lee Moore, Phillip Emmett
  • Publication number: 20070024898
    Abstract: A batch processing system includes a plurality of executing servers and a scheduling server. The scheduling server causes the executing servers to perform distributed execution of a batch job. The scheduling server selects one executing server to execute the first job step in the batch job. The selected executing server executes the first job step and selects self or another executing server to execute the next non-executed job step. This process is repeated until the last job step is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Sachiyo Uemura, Kazuyoshi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20070024899
    Abstract: A method for a computer system includes receiving a first facsimile transmission from a user, wherein the first facsimile transmission includes a digitized representation of a first document transmitted using a facsimile transmission format, processing the digitized representation of the first document with an optical character recognition process to determine a first destination e-mail address, wherein the first destination e-mail address need not be known to the computer system a priori, reformatting at least a portion of the digitized representation of the first document into an e-mail attachment format, determining advertisement data in response to the first facsimile transmission, forming an e-mail message addressed to the destination e-mail address, wherein the e-mail message includes a body portion and an attachment portion, wherein the body portion comprises the advertisement data, and wherein the attachment portion comprises the portion of the digitized representation of the first document in the e-m
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: MongoNet
    Inventors: Matthew Henry, Christopher Fortescue, John Warnock
  • Publication number: 20070024900
    Abstract: A method and system for transmitting scanned data from a network scanner to a host are provided, in which a port is set in the host to receive the scanned data when the host and the scanner are connected via a network, the host is accessed from the scanner to detect port information regarding the set port, and the scanned data is transmitted from the scanner to the host via the port corresponding to the detected port information. Therefore, the inconvenience of having to search a scanner from a host and then receiving scanned data when using a network scanner is eliminated and the scanned data can be directly transmitted from the network scanner to the host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: Hak-ju Lee
  • Publication number: 20070024901
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus transmits job data to be printed to a-printing apparatus, and modifies the print data stored in storage means in accordance with a modification notification from the printing apparatus to transmit the modified job data to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus stores job data to execute printing process. The printing apparatus determines whether or not modified and set print property items include items which can be modified by the information processing apparatus. The printing apparatus transmits a modification notification that requests to modify the job data based on the modified and set print property items to the information processing apparatus based on the determination result. The printing apparatus receives the modified job data corresponding to the modification notification from the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kayama
  • Publication number: 20070024902
    Abstract: There is provided a recording device provided with a communication unit configured to receive image data and a print execution instruction from an external device, a display unit, a printing unit, a storage unit; and a controller that stores the image data in the storage unit and displays an image corresponding to the image data on the display unit in response to receipt of the print execution instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: Tokunori Kato
  • Publication number: 20070024903
    Abstract: A printing request apparatus includes a first printing request generator, operable to generate a first printing request for printing information by a direct printing method; a second printing request generator, operable to generate a second printing request for printing information by an HTML-based printing method; and a printing controller, operable to select one of the first printing request generator and the second printing request generator and to cause the one of the first printing request generator and the second printing request generator to generate the corresponding printing request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Yoshinao Kitahara, Hideki Morozumi, Kenji Sakuda
  • Publication number: 20070024904
    Abstract: Imaging serial interface ROM (ISIROM). An integrated circuit imaging device presents to external circuitry as a read-only memory (ROM) with a serial interface. The ISIROM contains internal memory which stores data from the imaging array. When active, the imaging array automatically fills an image buffer in the internal memory with image data. This image data may be accessed by external circuitry in random-access fashion. Control and status registers may be used to start and stop the imaging process, set and interrogate imaging parameters. The ISIROM may also include auxiliary processing circuitry to perform functions such as image compression, scaling, edge and feature extraction, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Richard Baer, Vamsi Srikantam
  • Publication number: 20070024905
    Abstract: An information management system is provided, which includes: an external device having an output unit that performs a predetermined process; an information processing device connected to the external device; and a second storage unit that stores utilization data, which is accessed by the external device and the information processing device. When a first period in which the utilization data is utilized by the utilization unit and a second period in which target data of the output unit is previously utilized overlap with each other, the utilization data correlated with the first period is correlated with the target data output in the second period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Kazushige Muroi, Satoru Yanagi, Satoshi Watanabe, Kazuma Aoki
  • Publication number: 20070024906
    Abstract: A system and method of producing labels at remote locations worldwide in communication with a server and central database via the internet is shown and described. The present invention accommodates vastly different printing methods including thermal printing, lithographic printing, etc. For lithographic printing or other printing methods using plates, a ratioing algorithm is used to determine the optimum number of plates and label layout on each plate to minimize production costs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Paul Whittingham, Patrick Kenny, Mandy Smith
  • Publication number: 20070024907
    Abstract: A method for producing a content data file for a desired print job including a plurality of customized versions of a printable work includes the step of receiving an electronic template of the printable work including a common portion and a customizable portion. A form accessible via a network is developed to allow each of a plurality of users to associate a corresponding customized content with the customizable portion via the network. The corresponding customized content together with the template defines a corresponding customized version of the printable work. A desired number of copies is associated with each customized version of the printable work, and the customized versions of the printable work and the corresponding desired number of copies are aggregated to produce a content data file for the desired print job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: Quad/Graphics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Henke, Jeffrey Brekke