Patents Issued in March 1, 2007
  • Publication number: 20070046944
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of measuring haze including transmitting light, generated by a light source, through a sample; converting the light, transmitted through the sample, into parallel light through a null lens; and separating the light, transmitted through the null lens, into parallel light and diffused light through an integrating sphere and then measuring haze.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeon Ok Ghil, Jae Young Bae
  • Publication number: 20070046945
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting small shifts in optical wavelength is provided. Light having a known wavelength is directed towards a target volume in the atmosphere. Light reflected from the target volume is received and mixed with differentially delayed copies of itself to produce three interference signals. The interference signals are taken at delays spanning one-half the wavelength of the transmitted signal. The intensity of the signal at the three different delays is measured simultaneously, from which the wavelength of the reflected signal can be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: Ronald Schwiesow
  • Publication number: 20070046946
    Abstract: An apparatus capable of observing an extremely small region and at the same time observing physical phenomena that occur in extremely short time spans on the order of, for example, several tens of picoseconds to femtoseconds, is provided. The apparatus includes a microscope, and a time-resolved spectroscopy unit, a first light-guiding unit for guiding light from the spectroscopy unit into the microscope, a second light-guiding unit for guiding the light from the microscope into the spectroscopy unit. The microscope includes an illuminating optical system and an observing optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: Mitsuru Namiki
  • Publication number: 20070046947
    Abstract: A system for probing a DUT is disclosed, the system having a pulsed laser source, a CW laser source, beam optics designed to point a reference beam and a probing beam at the same location on the DUT, optical detectors for detecting the reflected reference and probing beams, and a collection electronics. The beam optics is a common-path polarization differential probing (PDP) optics. The common-path PDP optics divides the incident laser beam into two beams of orthogonal polarization - one beam simulating a reference beam while the other simulating a probing beam. Both reference and probing beams are pointed to the same location on the DUT. Due to the intrinsic asymmetry of a CMOS transistor, the interaction of the reference and probing beams with the DUT result in different phase modulation in each beam. This difference can be investigated to study the response of the DUT to the stimulus signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: Credence Systems Corporation
    Inventors: William Lo, Kenneth Wilsher, Nagamani Nataraj, Nina Boiadjieva
  • Publication number: 20070046948
    Abstract: Optical mapping apparatus for imaging an object, comprising an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system including an OCT source, an OCT reference path leading from the OCT source to an OCT receiver, an OCT object path leading from the object to the OCT coupler, an OCT depth scanner adapted to alter at least one of the OCT reference path and the OCT receiver path. A confocal system is provided including a confocal optical receiver a confocal path leading from the object to the confocal optical receiver via a confocal input aperture. An adaptive optics (AO) system is provided to correct optical aberrations in the OCT object path and the confocal path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicants: UNIVERSITY OF KENT, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND
    Inventors: Adrian Podoleanu, Adrian Bradu, Chris Dainty, David Merino
  • Publication number: 20070046949
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reference-beam interferometer for determining the position of a traversable stage, wherein an evacuated tube is inserted into the longer of the two interferometer legs. The tube is closed off by windows, which have a negative coefficient of thermal expansion and which can have a coating for reflecting heat radiation. Moreover, thermal compensation plates are inserted into the shorter of the two beam paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: VISTEC SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Heiden, Hans-Arthur Boesser
  • Publication number: 20070046950
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a display device comprises controlling an applied voltage to at least one fabry-perot interferometer pixel through a plurality of switches. The at least one fabry-perot interferometer pixel has a top and a bottom plate defining a gap therebetween wherein the at least one fabry-perot interferometer pixel produces a selected output color in response to the applied voltage. The method further includes controlling a test voltage to the at least one fabry-perot interferometer pixel through the plurality of switches during a calibration sequence to determine a gap capacitance in the at least one fabry-perot interferometer. The gap capacitance represents the relative position of the top plate with respect to the bottom plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Matthew Brown, Eric Martin
  • Publication number: 20070046951
    Abstract: A method of operating a wavefront interferometry system that generates an array of interference signals that contains information about relative wavefronts of measurement and reference beams, the method involving: from the array of interference signals, computing a first array of phase measurements for a first time and a second array of phase measurements for a second time; computing a difference of the first and second arrays of phase measurements to determine an array of rates of phase changes; and from the array of rates of phase changes, computing an array of atmospheric turbulence effect values which is a measure of atmospheric turbulence effects in the wavefront interferometry system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: ZETETIC INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Henry Hill
  • Publication number: 20070046952
    Abstract: An electric field waveform of an optical signal is precisely measured with high time resolution. Particularly, determination of inter-symbol interference has been difficult. Output light from the laser source is divided into first and second portions. The first portion is modulated by an optical modulator. The second portion is delayed by a delay line for the same quantity of delay as that of the first portion. The first and second portions are fed to a phase diversity circuit to configure a homodyne interferometer. An optical input sampling oscilloscope stabilizes a variable optical phase shifter to set an optical phase at a particular point of time to a fixed value using a pattern sync signal as a reference. An optical input sampling oscilloscope repeatedly averages optical waveforms and a CPU conducts three-dimensional display of the optical electric field waveform from which noise has been removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: Nobuhiko Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20070046953
    Abstract: Disclosed is an interferometry analysis method that includes comparing information derivable from multiple interferometry signals corresponding to different surface locations of a test object to information corresponding to multiple models of the test object, wherein the multiple models are parameterized by a series of characteristics that relate to one or more under-resolved lateral features of the test object; and outputting information about the under-resolved surface feature based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Peter De Groot, Michael Darwin, Robert Stoner, Gregg Gallatin, Xavier De Lega
  • Publication number: 20070046954
    Abstract: A method of matching CD-SEM's to ensure consistent measurements over an installed base of SEM's is disclosed by measuring with each of a plurality of scanning electron microscopes the feature size of resist features in at least two positions on the substrate such that field-to-field variations, and reticle and exposure tool non-uniformities are efficiently suppressed in the matching result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Hugo Joseph Cramer, Erik Van Brederode
  • Publication number: 20070046955
    Abstract: A processor for controlling a printer, the processor comprising: an input interface for receiving input image data; and, a very long instruction word (VLIW) processor connected to the input interface for processing the input image data to generate output image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: Kia Silverbrook
  • Publication number: 20070046956
    Abstract: Streaming image data comprising multiple images is received at an imaging device. Image boundaries are identified within the streaming image data. The streaming image data is transformed to an image-ready format that may be directly processed by a marking engine. Imaging (such as printing) of transformed image data for received images is initiated without waiting for all the streaming data to be received at the imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: John Burlingame
  • Publication number: 20070046957
    Abstract: A method and system for determining chromatic content of a page of an electronic document. Object level color analysis is performed on a page of the electronic document to determine whether the page is chromatic, achromatic or has highlight color, based on the object level color analysis. The page is then classified as chromatic, achromatic or highlight color, based on the results of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: William Jacobs, Michael Farrell, John Monahan, David Robinson, David Rumph, Terry Wells
  • Publication number: 20070046958
    Abstract: A color management system is described herein. Various embodiments of a method described herein can include receiving source color content that is associated with a source device, and transforming the source color content into destination color content for rendering on one or more destination devices. Various embodiments of an apparatus described herein can include a color infrastructure transformation engine that further includes a sequential transform component, which is adapted to receive source color content and to create a transform to facilitate mapping the source color content to destination color content. The color infrastructure transformation engine can also include a transform optimization component that is adapted to receive the transform and to create an optimized transform table based on the transform, and a transform execution component that is adapted to receive the optimized transform table and to generate the destination color content based thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Hubert Hoof, Charles Mauzy, Michael Stokes, Lavanya Vasudevan
  • Publication number: 20070046959
    Abstract: A sub-pixel for use in a color pixel structure, includes a microwire preferably printed on a substrate, the microwire having a gap in it; a carbon filament spanning the gap and having opposite ends of the filament in electrical communication with the wire; an electro-optic gel having a tint of one primary color of a white light spectrum, the gel enveloping the carbon filament.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: Patrick Padilla
  • Publication number: 20070046960
    Abstract: In a high lightness region of a color hue corresponding to a basic color material, the high lightness region ranging from a lightness level corresponding to the maximum color saturation level that is reproducible by the basic color material to the highest lightness level, color separation data corresponding to the basic color material is generated. In an intermediate lightness region whose lightness level is lower than that of the high lightness region, color separation data corresponding to the basic color material and two color materials (one of them is preferably is a particular color material) that have color hues close to that of the basic color material is generated. This provides the advantage of enlarging the color gamut in the low lightness region of a basic color hue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ayato Imai
  • Publication number: 20070046961
    Abstract: A combination to minimize moiré can be determined theoretically or empirically in four-color printing, but it is very difficult to find a combination to minimize moiré in printing using five or more colors. To solve this problem, image data is color-separated into image data corresponding to plural colorant. Multilevel dither processing is performed to the image data corresponding to the plural colorant. At this time, dither matrices having the same screen angle, the same screen ruling, and different threshold setting methods are applied to the respective image data corresponding to dark colorant and light colorant having the same hue and different lightness values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichi Kashibuchi, Shinichi Kato, Tsutomu Sakaue, Ritsuko Otake, Yoko Sato
  • Publication number: 20070046962
    Abstract: An image density in a predetermined section of an image represented by an image signal is calculated on the basis of the image signal, and the calculated image density is compared with the result of detection of a density in the predetermined section of a toner image formed on the basis of the image signal. Then, it is determined whether or not to perform a density-adjusting process in which an image-density adjustment is performed on the basis of correction pattern data. Thus, the density adjustment is performed at a suitable timing while monitoring the density of images formed in a normal image-forming operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoritsugu Maeda, Akira Morisawa
  • Publication number: 20070046963
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a color image forming method capable of forming full color images desired for a precise reproduction to the color tone of high resolution and a halftone in high-end apparatuses. Disclosed is a color image forming method employing 6 kinds of chromatic color toners and a black toner, each toner containing particles having a median particle diameter (D50) of 3-7 ?m in terms of volume, a decline starting temperature of a storage elastic modulus of 10-40° C., a temperature of 70-130° C. in the storage elastic modulus range of 103-104 Pa, and a primary diameter of 40-800 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Tatsuya Nagase, Makoto Nomiya, Kazuya Isobe
  • Publication number: 20070046964
    Abstract: In a method and printing system for mapping of color values of a color image to color values of a highlight color image with two highlight color colors, a mapping rule is developed such that a range in which a color value of the color image can be mapped to both highlight color colors is limited to a range between the two highlight color colors. Also, mapping rules for mapping of the color values to one of the two highlight color colors are designed such that they produce only a small portion of the highlight color color to be mapped in a neighborhood of the respective highlight color color that is not to be mapped. A color impression caused by highlight color colors of the color image is thus retained. Additionally a darkening of the color image via an application of too much toner of both highlight color colors is avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Helmut Weiner, Rudiger Siemens
  • Publication number: 20070046965
    Abstract: In one embodiment, when an external view of an entire system configured from an external view of a color image processing apparatus and an external view of a monochrome image processing apparatus is displayed in a copy operation screen of a touch panel, even in the case where there is an unusable image processing apparatus, the external view of the unusable image processing apparatus is also displayed in a state in which the external view of the entire system is preserved, and at that time the external view of the usable image processing apparatus and the external view of the unusable image processing apparatus are displayed with different image forms (for example, one of the image processing apparatuses is displayed reversed).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Naofumi Ueda, Syoichiro Yoshiura, Yuji Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20070046966
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method of medical image processing on a distributed network including: communicating on a distributed network comprising a server, a client, and a communications pathway having a bandwidth, wherein the distributed network comprises system resources related to the server, the client, and the communications pathway; monitoring the system resources and the bandwidth with at least one process monitor to generate monitor data; and recommending an allocation of at least a portion of the system resources for processing three dimensional image data to form two dimensional image data displayable on the client, wherein the allocation is based at least in part on the monitor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Christopher Mussack, Litao Yan, Cheryl Jones, Saad Sirohey, David Mack
  • Publication number: 20070046967
    Abstract: The present application relates to a printing system in which a print client for a specified printer in the printing system can be easily identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: Dahmane Bounar
  • Publication number: 20070046968
    Abstract: A method of rapidly creating an image from a document is disclosed. Image data derived from a document is received at an imaging device. It is then determined whether the image data is in an image-ready format that can be directly processed by a marking engine. If the image data is in an image-ready format, it is transmitted to the marking engine to create an image. If it is not in an image-ready format, the image data is converted to a proper format. The image data is transmitted to the marking engine. If the image data is spooled to a nonvolatile storage device, the spooling takes place only after or concurrent with transmission of the image data to the marking engine such that creation of the image is not delayed by this spooling process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: Tommy Oswald
  • Publication number: 20070046969
    Abstract: An image data control apparatus includes: a job analysis section for detecting property data which is included in a file for storing supplied document image data and which shows a property of the document image data; and an interpreter section for generating data for photographic printing based on the property data detected by the job analysis section and the document image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshimi Shinchi, Tamotsu Sakuraba
  • Publication number: 20070046970
    Abstract: There is described an image forming system constituted by an image forming apparatus and an external apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a storing section to store image data, an image forming section and a controlling section to control the image forming operations. While, the external apparatus includes a data generating section to generate a plurality of print data sets, which are different from each other with respect to at least a part of each print data set, a selecting section to select selected-image data from the image data and a transmitting section to transmit the plurality of print data sets and selecting information indicating the selected-image data to the image forming apparatus. Based on the selecting information, the controlling section controls the image forming section so as to couple the selected-image data with each of print data sets to output coupled-image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Jun Yokobori, Junji Sato, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20070046971
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a storage section which stores a file including an image data and a predetermined post-processing condition; a reading section which read out a plurality of files to be combined from the storage section; a combination section which combines the plurality of files to produce a combined file; and a control section which controls the post-processing section to conduct a first mode in which the control section invalidates the predetermined post-processing condition set to each of the plurality of files and a post-processing is conducted based on a post-processing condition set to the whole of the plurality of files, or a second mode in which a post-processing is conducted based on the predetermined post-processing condition set to each of the plurality of files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Jun Yokobori, Masahiro Osawa, Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20070046972
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is capable of executing a plurality of image processing functions and storing plural pieces of identifier information. Each respective piece of identifier information corresponds to each respective one of the plurality of image processing functions. The image processing apparatus sets one or more of the plural pieces of identifier information selected from the plural pieces of identifier information corresponding to the plurality of image processing functions. In response to receiving of a request to acquire the identifier information from an information processing apparatus, the image processing apparatus transmits the one or more of the plural pieces of identifier information set to the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Hirai
  • Publication number: 20070046973
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus inputs print data from an external device, and analyzes the input print data. The image processing apparatus rasterizes the print data into first image data on the basis of the analysis result. The image processing apparatus receives status information representing the status of a printing apparatus, temporarily saves the first image data in a holding unit on the basis of the received status information and the analysis result, interrupts a transfer process for the first image data to the printing apparatus, starts the transfer process for second image data to the printing apparatus, and transfers, to the printing apparatus, setting information of the print data that corresponds to the first image data. The printing apparatus determines whether corresponding image data has been received within a predetermined period after reception of the setting information of the print data from the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masayuki Toda
  • Publication number: 20070046974
    Abstract: A cooperative processing method for a cooperative processing system which has a plurality of processing apparatuses includes: detecting an error of a process of a cooperative process in an apparatus of the cooperative processing system; and deleting data which relate to the cooperative process from the apparatus or other apparatus which relates to the cooperative process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Machida
  • Publication number: 20070046975
    Abstract: An electronic document management system includes: a reading unit that reads a code image from a document in which the code image is formed; an analysis unit that analyzes code information from the code image read by the reading unit; and a discard processing unit that executes discard processing of the document if the code information is correctly analyzed by the analysis unit, and does not execute discard processing of the document if the code information is not correctly analyzed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: Kengo Shinozaki
  • Publication number: 20070046976
    Abstract: A document input and output device with a security protection function, the document input and output device being connected to a network and using a plurality of communication protocols, the document input and output device communicating documents in various data forms with plural information devices, includes a protection part configured to provide security protection for the document that is input; a confirmation part configured to encourage reconfirmation of information that is input by a user; and a restriction part configured to limit use of functions of the document input and output device. The document is protected and a document input and output process is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Kasatani
  • Publication number: 20070046977
    Abstract: An external device document input and output device that is connected to a network and uses a plurality of communication protocols, the external device document input and output device communicating documents in various data forms to and from a plurality of information devices, the external device input and output device includes a first identifying part configured to implement a process of identification so that a function of the information device can be used by individual identification; a second identifying part configured to implement a process of identification so that a function of the external device document input and output device can be used by individual identification; and a registration part configured to register folders permitted to be used by a user identified by the first identifying part and the second identifying part and register setting information of a recording medium provided in the external device document input and output device, in common media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Kasatani
  • Publication number: 20070046978
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a print unit, an acquisition unit and a print control unit. The print unit prints an image. The acquisition unit acquires image data indicating a print image including an advertising image. The print control unit controls the print unit to print only a residual image obtained by removing the advertising image from the print image indicated by the image data acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuma Aoki, Makoto Matsuda, Kiyotaka Ohara, Satoshi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20070046979
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus connected, through a communication interface, with an image formation apparatus that carries out image formation of a document file in a form of a prescribed format, which includes: a reading section that reads originals, and generates image data for each original; a document file generation section that generates the document file including image data generated from one sheet of original in the reading section; and an output section that outputs the document file generated in the document file generation section to the image formation apparatus through the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Minowa
  • Publication number: 20070046980
    Abstract: A server computer provides objects such as bitmaps representing graphics image for processing by a client computer or device. The object may be of any arbitrary size or format, and is converted to a data structure that can be received by the client computer. Synchronized metadata may be included in the data structure, where such metadata data is used by an application in the client computer or device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Coleman, Wilhelm Schmieder, John Parsons, Nadim Abdo, Joy Chik
  • Publication number: 20070046981
    Abstract: Facsimile image data received from a normal facsimile apparatus connected to a general telephone network can be transmitted as an e-mail to the e-mail address of a computer network such as a LAN or the like designated by the source facsimile apparatus. An apparatus has a LAN I/F (6-14) for connecting to the LAN, and a line I/F (6-6) for connecting to the public telephone network. Upon reception of a remote instruction from the public telephone network, a CPU (6-3) converts received facsimile image data into e-mail data, and transmits the converted e-mail data to the e-mail address designated by the received remote instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: KENZO SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20070046982
    Abstract: A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques provide mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). The MMR system includes an action processor and methods, and an MMR document with having an associated action. The MMR document specifies different actions for different MMR documents, and creates any number of MMR documents for a particular location on any media, thereby allowing the MMR architecture to serve as a universal trigger or initiator for additional processing. The action processor receives the output of the MMR recognition process which yields an MMR document including at least one action. The action processor executes that action which includes various commands to the MMR system or other systems coupled to the MMR system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Jonathan Hull, Berna Erol, Jamey Graham, Peter Hart, Dar-Shyang Lee, Kurt Piersol
  • Publication number: 20070046983
    Abstract: A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). In one embodiment, an MMR document is retrieved based on recognition of a paper document. Responsive to the comparison of the paper document and the virtual multimedia document, an action is performed. For example, the media of the matching MMR document can be displayed, or an action associated with the matching MMR document can be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Jonathan Hull, Berna Erol, Jamey Graham, Peter Hart, Geoffrey Nudd, Stephen Weyl
  • Publication number: 20070046984
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus capable of transmitting externally received data to a corresponding information processing device even in a case where a plurality of information processing devices are mountable to the data processing apparatus. First device identification information for identifying an information processing device connected to the data processing apparatus is obtained from the information processing device, and first data is received from an external apparatus. When the first device identification information and second device identification information added to the first data match each other, the first data is transmitted to the information processing device connected to the data processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shin Muto
  • Publication number: 20070046985
    Abstract: The object of this invention is to reduce the effort of deleting and information symbol from a read image. To accomplish this, an image of a document with an information symbol is read (S100), and the information symbol is identified in the read image (S130). The identified information symbol is decoded (S150), and it is determined on the basis of the decoding result whether the data format of the information symbol is a desired one (S160). On the basis of the determination, if the data format is the desired one, the information symbol is deleted from the read image (S170).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuo Komada
  • Publication number: 20070046986
    Abstract: A network system and network system setting method including a control apparatus connected to a network and an image processing apparatus connected to the control apparatus so as to access the network, where when setup information for the image processing apparatus is transmitted to another image processing apparatus, setup information for the control apparatus is also transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideaki Ooba
  • Publication number: 20070046987
    Abstract: The printing controller is connectable to multiple printing apparatuses and distributes a print job to multiple destination printing apparatuses among the connected multiple printing apparatuses. The printing controller comprises a receiving module that receives the print job, an evaluation module, a selection module, and a distribution module. The evaluation module evaluates the amount of time required for printing requested by the received print job for multiple distribution methods. The selection module selects a distribution method having shortest time required for printing from among the multiple distribution methods based on the evaluation results. The distribution module distributes the received print job using the selected distribution method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: Toshihiro Shima
  • Publication number: 20070046988
    Abstract: A received document input and output device connected to a network and using a plurality of communication protocols, the document input and output device communicating documents in various data forms with a plurality of information devices, includes a storing part configured to store the documents received via a communication part; a printing part configured to print the documents; a setting part configured to set management information; and a periodic implementation part configured to control the parts processing the document based on the management information and an output of a clock part configured to count day and time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Kasatani
  • Publication number: 20070046989
    Abstract: To provide a technology for, if a first distribution destination printing device cannot continue printing according to a print job, causing a second distribution destination printing device to execute an unexecuted print job without using a server. The first distribution destination printing device, used for a printing system, includes a print job processing module that acquires a distributed print job supplied from a distribution source device and gives the distributed print job to a printing execution module. The print job processing module acquires, from the distribution source device, device identification information for identifying the second distribution destination printing device among a plurality of distribution destination printing devices, the second distribution destination printing device belonging to the same group as the first distribution destination printing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: Toshihiro Shima
  • Publication number: 20070046990
    Abstract: A server enables a user at a station to scan a document. The station has a computer connected to the network, a browser installed on the computer to enable the user to browse the network, and a scanner in communication with the computer. The server has a database of scanner drivers, a driver selection system that enables the user to select a driver for the scanner from the database of scanner drivers, and a delivery system that transfers a selected driver to the computer and causes the computer to execute the driver. The user uses the browser and the driver selection system to select a driver for the scanner. The delivery system then sends the driver to the computer, and the computer executes the driver. The driver uses the scanner to scan a document, and scanning data corresponding to the document is saved in a predetermined location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: Hsi-Hsun Huang
  • Publication number: 20070046991
    Abstract: A contents providing system, comprising an application server, a printing apparatus, and an accounting server which are interconnected through a network, is provided. The application server comprises an application server-side transmitting system, which transmits print data including contents information and contents supplier identifying information identifying a supplier of the contents information to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus comprises a printing apparatus-side receiver system, a printing system, an obtaining system, and a printing apparatus-side transmitting system. The accounting server comprises an accounting server-side receiver system, an accounting server-side accounting system, and an accounting server-side storing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Ohara, Makoto Matsuda, Kazuma Aoki, Satoshi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20070046992
    Abstract: A printing device includes a receiving system configured to receive printing data including first information, second information and provider-specifying information that specifies a provider of the second information, from an external apparatus; a printing system configured to perform printing based on the printing data received by the receiving system; an obtaining system configured to obtain printing information representing a predetermined parameter regarding printing of the second information performed by the printing system; a storing system configured to store the printing information obtained by the obtaining system and the provider-specifying information corresponding to the printing information; and a sending system configured to send the printing information and the provider-specifying information stored by the storing system to an aggregating server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Makoto Matsuda, Kiyotaka Ohara, Kazuma Aoki, Satoshi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20070046993
    Abstract: A printing apparatus using a network which is used in a network environment in which a plurality of computer devices and a plurality of network printing apparatuses are connected to a network spools printing jobs received from the computer devices, displays information of the printing jobs and information of the other network printing apparatuses for a user, and transfers the specified printing job to the specified network printing apparatus when the user specifies the printing job and the network printing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicants: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Sato