Patents Issued in January 6, 2015
  • Patent number: 8928907
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main controller, a universal serial bus (USB) interface to which an external USB device is connected, a voltage bus (VBUS) power supply to supply power to the USB interface through the VBUS line, a voltage change detector to output a wake-up signal to the main controller if a voltage change occurs on the VBUS line, a USB host controller to perform data communication with the USB device connected through the USB interface, and an image forming job performing unit to perform an image forming job according to control by the main controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung-sun Min, Si-nae Choi
  • Patent number: 8928908
    Abstract: A multifunction peripheral (MFP) and a method for restricting the use of the same. A user ID and a password are registered according to a user's input, accessible functions are set according to the registered user, and even the authenticated user is restricted to using only the set functions. Therefore, use of the MFP and specific functions of the MFP can be restricted according to the particular registered user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae-Wan Kang
  • Patent number: 8928909
    Abstract: A startup operation control apparatus includes a main-power-source operation unit, a determining unit, a memory, and a controller. The main-power-source operation unit is operated to supply and shut off power from a power source. The determining unit determines whether or not the main-power-source operation unit has been operated. The memory stores, every time an operation mode of a processing device that operates by receiving power supply from the power source changes, information representing the changed operation mode in an updating manner. If the determining unit determines, upon a shift from a power shutoff state to a power supply state, that the main-power-source operation unit has not been operated, the controller performs control so that the processing device operates in the operation mode represented by the information stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Shimizu, Teiju Sato, Michihisa Nezu, Masato Saito, Tatsuo Mishima, Hideki Nojo
  • Patent number: 8928910
    Abstract: A user efficiently prints a book as desired during the generation of a job. When a form is assigned a flag indicating a last page of the book, a page containing the form assigned the flag is set as the last page of the book and is added to a number of pages that have already been drawn to calculate the total number of pages, and the number of blank pages necessary to place the page containing the form assigned the flag on the last page of the book is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kinya Honda
  • Patent number: 8928911
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a fulfillment request is received. A solution set comprising a plurality of fulfillment solutions is determined. The solution set, including values for fulfillment solutions according to a plurality of negotiation attributes, is presented. Selection of a negotiation attribute to be prioritized is invited. The solution set is redetermined according to a selected negotiation attribute. A redetermined solution set is presented. The fulfillment request is fulfilled according to a solution selected from the redetermined solution set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: William J. Allen, David Stone, Sean Morrison
  • Patent number: 8928912
    Abstract: A printing control device includes units that: distribute received image data page by page, perform image processing for converting the image data distributed by page into print data, and control output in accordance with a plurality of image output sections, and control the output processing of each of the plurality of the image output sections based on the print data generated by the image processing, when aggregate printing where images of a plurality of pages are merged into one image is executed. The image data is distributed so that the image data is subjected to the image processing by a single image processing unit. The plurality of the output control units generate print data in a plurality of pages by combining the plurality of page print data transferred from the image processing units, and transmit the generated print data to the image output sections corresponding to the output control units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Misawa
  • Patent number: 8928913
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for switching service process and a media server, wherein the method for switching the service process comprises: after a first service process performed together with a facsimile terminal is completed, and when a message, which is sent by an application server and which indicates to carry out a second service process, is received by a media server, the media server switching from the first service process to the second service process; and the facsimile terminal switching from the first service process to the second service process. Therefore, the switching of the facsimile is not limited by the switching control requirements of the media gateway, which is favorable for flexible expansion and interconnection of the facsimile services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Dong Wang
  • Patent number: 8928914
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that processes a variable data printing (VDP) job having a plurality of records includes a formation unit configured to form status management data for managing a processing status of a reusable object contained in the VDP job, an assignment unit configured to assign the record of the VDP job to a free CPU core based on the status management data, and a waiting unit configured to wait for the end of processing of all CPU cores that is performing the parallel processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shuichi Takenaka
  • Patent number: 8928915
    Abstract: An image communication apparatus configured to communicate with a server on a network, and configured to communicate with at least one external apparatus through a public network, includes: a destination receiving unit receiving a designation of a destination; a reading unit reading a document; a first generating unit generating first image data based on the document read by the reading unit; a first transmitting unit transmitting the first image data generated by the first generating unit to the server; a transmission-data generating unit generating transmission data including access information and second image data having a smaller amount of data than that of the first image data, the access information being for acquiring the first image data from the server, and a second transmitting unit configured to transmit the transmission data generated by the transmission-data generating unit, to the destination through the public network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daisuke Matsumoto, Shozo Kabeya
  • Patent number: 8928916
    Abstract: A display device which performs previewing of print data for printing an image on a tape including: a division data generating unit for dividing the print data into N parts and thus generates N division data (where N is an integer that is greater than or equal to 1); and a previewing unit for loading a target division data including a target area of the previewing, of the N division data, into a work area and sequentially reads out the division data from the work area, thus performing the previewing; wherein the division data generating unit decides a value of the N in accordance with a tape width of the tape and a tape length in the case where the print data is printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Takada, Naofumi Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 8928917
    Abstract: A system and method for wirelessly activating or deactivating features that are safety issues associated with a mobile multi-function device user interface based on user proximity. A mobile telecommunication device configured with a mobile multifunction device user interface can be paired with a multifunction device utilizing a wireless communication link (e.g., Bluetooth). A proximity detection mechanism with respect to the wireless communication link can be configured in association with the mobile telecommunication device to set a user proximity range. A permanently disabled feature due to safety concerns can be automatically enabled when the mobile user interface device is within the programmed range. The features can be automatically disabled if the mobile user interface device is out of range. Such an approach controls the device functionality based on the user proximity for correct and safe operation of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Marc Rocas
  • Patent number: 8928918
    Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for uploading a rejected print job request to an alternative location are disclosed. For example, the method receives a print job request in a managed print environment, determines that the print job request violates a rule for printing in the managed print environment, displays a print job pop-up dialogue that indicates that the print job request has been rejected, wherein the print job pop-up dialogue provides one or more alternative locations to upload the print job request, receives a selection of one of the one or more alternative locations to upload the print job request, converts the print job request into an electronic document and uploads the electronic document to the one of the one or more alternative locations that was selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Bijender Singh Malik, Diane M. Olivo
  • Patent number: 8928919
    Abstract: There is provided a computer-readable medium allowing a computer of an image processing apparatus to execute: an image-obtain processing; a display-control processing of allowing a display screen to display at least images which are a part of a plurality of images based on the obtained image data; and a selection-judgment processing of judging whether or not selection of one image is received in a state that the images are displayed on the display screen; wherein in a case that the computer judges in the selection-judgment processing that the selection of the one image is received, the computer allows in the display-control processing the display screen to display another image in which the one image is rotated by a predetermined angle, instead of the one image, in a state that output aspect of another image included in the images and different from the one image is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura, Masahiro Fujishita
  • Patent number: 8928920
    Abstract: A print job includes instructions to print markings and perform finishing operations on a first type of media. Systems and methods determine print job characteristics of the print job based on data within the print job, and select a different type of media on which banner pages will be printed (e.g., “second types of media” that is different from the first type of media used for the print job pages). The banner pages contain human and/or computer readable instructions to perform the finishing operations. The media type used for the “second type of media” is based on the print job characteristics of the print job. The print markings are printed on the first type of media, and the banner pages are printed on the second type of media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Bell, Javier A. Morales
  • Patent number: 8928921
    Abstract: A print server receives an email, which has been transmitted from a mobile terminal device and in which a printer is designated as the print output destination for an attached file to the email, from a mail server, stores the received email in a storage unit, and executes print processing of print data for the attached file to the email. The print server manages the email and identification information about a reply mail in association with each other and transmits the reply mail to the mobile terminal device. The mobile terminal device provides a reprint instruction for the attached file by replying the email. The print server performs print processing of the attached file to an email managed in association with the identification information about the reply mail included in the replied email.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Motoki Koshigaya
  • Patent number: 8928922
    Abstract: A printing system includes an allotment device, spooling devices, interpretation devices, and a print controller. The allotment device allots pages of print data to the interpretation devices in a distributed manner in a predetermined order without regard to a print output order corresponding to an imposition designation. The interpretation devices interpret the allotted pages to generate interpretation result data, and each cause a spooling device corresponding to that interpretation device to store the generated interpretation result data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mamoru Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 8928923
    Abstract: A fully collaborative software management method allows creating, printing, delivering and hanging-in-stores a sequential arrangement of shelf information tags. Customer and printer computers are operably connected to communicate during a design and assembly stage of developing the tags. Customer decision-makers and printer decision-makers collaborate on template authoring, content and template management, printing-event construction, staging and proofing, including integration of various elements such as stored data, timing, customer-driven controls, and event-driven controls. The method allows printer decision-makers to operate a publishing engine that permits viewing the customized information tags as a display prior to viewing as a printed product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Grandville Printing Company
    Inventor: Chris E. Nunez
  • Patent number: 8928924
    Abstract: A printing control apparatus configured to transmit a received job to an image processing apparatus transmits, in a case where, after receiving information indicating that preparation for transition to a power saving status is completed from the image processing apparatus, determination is made that a job to be preferentially transmitted to the image processing apparatus exists among the plurality of received jobs stored in a storage unit, the job to the image processing apparatus with priority over a job stored in the storage unit before the job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shou Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8928925
    Abstract: A multifunction device that has functions for reading media and printing tickets, and produces tickets on which an image reflecting the result of reading the medium is recorded under the control of a control device, can quickly reprint a ticket when a command to reprint the ticket is received. When image data is written to a first buffer 77a, the ticket production control unit 70a of the multifunction device 1 copies the image data to a second buffer 77b. When a command to reprint the ticket is received, the ticket production control unit 70a causes a thermal printer unit 60 to record an image on thermal roll paper based on the image data copied to the second buffer 77b, and then cuts the thermal roll paper to reproduce the ticket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Komiyama, Kazuya Toshima
  • Patent number: 8928926
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processor, and a storage controller that writes band data to a storage device and reads the band data. The processor: (a) generates a write-side process and a read-side process; (b) generates a write-side thread by the write-side process; (c) generates a read-side thread and a file read thread by the read-side process; (d) notifies the read-side process of an identifier within the storage device, and causes the storage controller to sequentially write the band data; and (e) requests the file read thread to cause the storage controller to sequentially read out the band data corresponding to the identifier and causes the storage controller to sequentially read out the band data and one or more subsequent band data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hara
  • Patent number: 8928927
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processor, and a storage controller that writes band data to a storage device and reads the band data. The processor: (a) generates a write-side process and a read-side process; (b) generates a write-side thread by the write-side process; (c) generates a read-side thread and a file read thread by the read-side process; (d) notifies the read-side process of an identifier within the storage device, and causes the storage controller to sequentially write the band data; and (e) requests the file read thread to cause the storage controller to sequentially read out the band data corresponding to the identifier and causes the storage controller to sequentially read out the band data and one or more subsequent band data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hara
  • Patent number: 8928928
    Abstract: The invention proposes a method for producing a printed product, in which a printed product, preferably produced in a forme-bound high-capacity printing process, in the form of a main product (2) or a subproduct is provided with an identification means which comprises a piece of individualizable product-specific information. At least two downstream individualization steps are performed, wherein the identification means allow the piece of information which is to be added in the at least two further downstream individualization steps to be associated with the respective product. Preferably, the new addressee-specific digital printed product comprises blog articles, preferably in the form of a blog insert, which is in turn preferably produced using digital printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Ferag AG
    Inventor: Guido Steffen
  • Patent number: 8928929
    Abstract: Generating a tag layout from a set of tags and an ordering of the set of tags, wherein each tag includes a text label and a size for the text label, is disclosed. The system includes a processor accessible memory for receiving an ordered set of tags, each tag including a text label and a size for the text label, and at least one closed shape corresponding to a space for the tag layout. The system further includes a processor for generating the tag layout by computing a scale factor for either the closed shape or the size of the text labels in the set of tags such that all the tags in the set of tags fit within the closed shape, and the processor stores the generated tag layout in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Minwoo Park, Dhiraj Joshi, Alexander C. Loui, Amit Singhal
  • Patent number: 8928930
    Abstract: A method reducing an image size of an image printed by an image forming apparatus includes determining whether a line width of an unprintable line will be compensated when it is determined that there is the unprintable line, rendering an object based on image data in which a result of determining whether the line width will be compensated is reflected, and performing a reduction printing operation of the object based on the rendering result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-sung Jo, Young-taek Cho
  • Patent number: 8928931
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including: a reading portion configured to read an original to generate original image data; a code detecting portion configured to detect a code indicating image density reduction information from the original image data; a reconstruction processing portion configured to generate output image data from the original image data by using density input-output characteristics corresponding to the image density reduction information; a filter portion configured to perform unsharpness processing on the output image data by using a degree corresponding to the image density reduction information; and an image forming portion configured to form an image based on the output image data subjected to the unsharpness processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuru Yamatani
  • Patent number: 8928932
    Abstract: An on-line portal enables users in multiple locations to concurrently create varied marketing campaign materials by way of singular proxy templates. The user selects a promotion from predetermined approved location/client list. If the promotional document type contains a proxy template, the user may edit the proxy template, and link the proxy template to multiple documents such that edits to the proxy template are referenced by the linked documents and thus are concurrently built based on pre-approved rules governing the formats for the linked documents. The user is allowed to preview the documents for completeness and/or accuracy, and if acceptable may be placed into a shopping cart for checkout or order placement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Bell Litho, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy J. Bellagamba
  • Patent number: 8928933
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a printing setting reception part generating setting information from printing settings when a printing request is given by an application; an image processing part converting document data obtained from the application into printing data for a printer based on the setting information; and a determination part determining whether the application having called the image processing part is a specific application, by determining at least one of whether the setting information includes specific application information described by the application and whether the specific application information is included in an argument of a function for calling the image processing part. When it has been determined that the specific application has called the image processing part, the image processing part generates the printing data by a method different from a method of a case of having been called by an application other than the specific application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akiyoshi Ono
  • Patent number: 8928934
    Abstract: A printing device includes the following features. The first dot group in which dots are formed based on the first printing condition and the second dot group in which dots are formed based on a printing condition which is different from the first printing condition are formed together in a common region. In the common region, when the printing is performed in a plurality of conditions such that a difference of the dot pitch between a formation position of dots belonging to the first pixel group and a formation position of dots belonging to the second pixel group is 2/720 inch to 5/720 inch, the change in CIEL*a*b* of the printed image is within the preliminary determined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiaki Kakutani
  • Patent number: 8928935
    Abstract: A system and method for color accuracy checking is discussed. In one embodiment, areas within a document are selected for color-checking. A confirmation is made that a second printing of the document has color values which deviate within tolerances from color values of a first printing of the document within each of the selected areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Alberto Such, Andres Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 8928936
    Abstract: Systems and associated methods provide for converting an RGB color image to a grayscale image via a lookup table of correction values. The lookup table is generated and used to compensate for errors in converting the color image to the grayscale image. The lookup table is generated by generating a reference image having pixels with color values in the RGB color space, converting a first copy of the reference image to a grayscale reference image via interpolation, and converting a second copy of the reference image to an intermediate image. The intermediate image comprises chrominance and luminance values (e.g., YCbCR or YCgCo). The chrominance values are removed from the intermediate image. The intermediate image is then compared to the grayscale reference image to generate the correction values. The lookup table may then be applied to a grayscale image that has been converted from the RGB color image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Arianne Therese Hinds, Nenad Rijavec, Natalie Dawn Ross
  • Patent number: 8928937
    Abstract: A method enables primary color values for pixel to be processed before the pixel is rendered. The method includes allocating non-black primary colors as being under black, secondary colors, or tertiary colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: David A. Mantell
  • Patent number: 8928938
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including an image forming section for forming a test image including a plurality of patterns in which at least one pattern is more easily affected by a variation factor for density than another pattern, an accepting section for accepting an amount of adjustment for density, and an adjusting section for adjusting density of an image to be formed by the image forming section based on the amount of adjustment for density accepted by the accepting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masakazu Ohira
  • Patent number: 8928939
    Abstract: A image processing apparatus of the present invention comprises an image generation unit configured to generate image data of one page, a printing unit configured to mount color material on an intermediate transfer member to perform printing, and an obtaining unit configured to obtain a time (a time between print pages) showing a time interval between printing one page and printing next one page by the printing unit, and the printing unit outputs patches for adjusting density to be reproduced in the printing, to the intermediate transfer member in the time between print pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ken Achiwa
  • Patent number: 8928940
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a density conversion unit converting the density of one or more image data from among plural image data to be combined having different tones so as to correspond to the tone to be combined; a combine unit combining the plural image data by using the image data whose density is converted by the density conversion unit; and an image forming unit forming an image by using the image data combined by the combine unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8928941
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus prints an image without streaks on a medium. A receiving section receives base color image data and non-base color image data. A detecting section detects a boundary between a first area in which the base color image is printed and a second area which surrounds the first area and no image is printed therein. A correction section performs correction on the image data to generate one of a third area defined in a peripheral portion of the first area and a fourth area which is defined in a peripheral portion of the second area and is contiguous to the first area. A smaller amount of base color toner is consumed in the third and fourth area than in the first area. A printing section prints an image on a medium in accordance with the corrected base color image data and the non-base color image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Akimitsu Kawano
  • Patent number: 8928942
    Abstract: An image forming device includes a density correction unit that corrects density based on a density detection value of the density correction pattern; a first density correction pattern generating unit that generates a first density correction pattern having low resolution; and a second density correction pattern generating unit that generates a second density correction pattern having high resolution. When a first density detection value of the first density correction pattern is greater than a predetermined threshold value, the density correction unit corrects the density by determining a density correction reflection rate, based on the first density detection value. When the first density detection value is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold value, the density correction unit corrects the density by determining the density correction reflection rate, based on a second density detection value of the second density correction pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takehiro Nakajima
  • Patent number: 8928943
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a designating unit that designates a color to be output in a target color, an analyzing unit that extracts, with regard to input image data, coordinates of a location to be output in the designated target color, and page information that specifies a page that includes the coordinates, a colorimetry unit that measures a color of an image that is on a page prior to a page with respect to which the color to be output in the target color was designated, and that was obtained by forming an image based on data including the designated color, a generating unit that generates correction data for approximating a color resulting from the colorimetry to the target color, and a correcting unit that corrects color data of the location in the targeted page to be output in the target color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Jun Nagai
  • Patent number: 8928944
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for displaying one or more pages of a first document in a first region on a user interface; displaying thumbnail images of the one or more pages of the first document in a second region on the user interface; receiving user input for inserting one or more pages from a non-digitized second document into the first document; and in response to the user input, digitizing the one or more pages of the non-digitized second document using a document scanning device, and inserting the one or more pages of the digitized second document into the first document, wherein the inserted pages are displayed as part of the first document on the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Conrad Rhodes Carlen, Nils Theodore Beck, Matthew Jacob Sarnoff
  • Patent number: 8928945
    Abstract: A printing apparatus for performing printing with the use of a special gloss material and a coloring material is provided. The printing apparatus includes: an inputting unit that receives or acquires image data as an input; and a printing unit that controls the arrangement of the special gloss material and the coloring material on a print target medium on the basis of the inputted image data to print the image data. The printing unit changes the amount of use of the special gloss material depending on an index value that is related to the lightness of a color represented by the coloring material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Seishin Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8928946
    Abstract: A cover member is openable and closable with respect to a document table, and has a color reference surface facing the document table, and a partial region provided on a color reference surface and having a predetermined density different from a density of the color reference surface. When a document determination portion determines that a document is a book document, a density correction portion corrects a density in a specific density correction range at a central portion in document image data read from a document by a image reading portion, based on a second density difference which is a density difference between a density of the color reference surface read by a reading control portion when a book document is placed on a document placement surface, and a density of the color reference surface read by the image reading portion when the cover member is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Fujita
  • Patent number: 8928947
    Abstract: A method for contrast enhancement for digital images, including filtering an original image having original color values, to generate a filtered image, receiving parameters for a response curve, the response curve being a function of color value that is user-adjustable, deriving local multipliers by applying the response curve to the filtered image, multiplying the original color values by the local multipliers, thereby generating a contrast-enhanced image from the original image. A system and a computer-readable storage medium are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: ACD Systems International Inc.
    Inventor: David Sheldon Hooper
  • Patent number: 8928948
    Abstract: Described herein is a method to encode infrared (IR) security watermarks using a named color dictionary within a PDL in a device independent manner. A set of colors is chosen that lies within the common gamut of printing devices and then defined in a device-independent color space. For each color and output device, a metameric pair of device colorant values corresponding to minimum and maximum black (K) is obtained using inversion techniques. These extremes are selected in order to obtain the maximum perceivable IR signal. The metameric pair sets are processed to extract a smaller subset that satisfies certain criteria, including bounds on the K difference, total ink area coverage, and deviation from the neutral axis. The final data is then stored in resource files that link fixed device-independent IR color names to pairs of variable device-dependent colorant values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Reiner Eschbach, Martin S. Maltz, Edward Chapman
  • Patent number: 8928949
    Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for minimizing gray level variation in microtext are disclosed. For example, the method calculates a gray value of each one of a plurality of symbols of a first set of symbols comprising a plurality of symbols, identifies a reference symbol of the first set of symbols, determines a reference gray value of the reference symbol and adjusts the gray value of one or more of the plurality of symbols of the first set of symbols to be equivalent to the reference gray value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Reiner Eschbach, Edward Chapman
  • Patent number: 8928950
    Abstract: A controlling device for controlling a scan performing unit may determine a specific optical resolution from among a plurality of optical resolutions by utilizing specific information given from a user, cause the scan performing unit to perform a scan of a document in accordance with the specific optical resolution, perform an analysis of scan data obtained by the scan of the document, determine an output resolution based on a result of the analysis of the scan data, converting the scan data indicating the specific optical resolution into image data indicating the output resolution in a case where the output resolution is not identical to the specific optical resolution, and create a file including the image data indicating the output resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mayumi Kuraya, Tomohiko Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8928951
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire luminance information of a white reference member by reading the white reference member with an image reading unit including a sensor while rotating the image reading unit in units of a predetermined angle, and a correction unit configured to correct the luminance information acquired by the acquisition unit using a correction coefficient predetermined for each rotation angle of the image reading unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takehito Utsunomiya
  • Patent number: 8928952
    Abstract: A scanning apparatus includes a scanning module, a calibration plate, and a driving module. The calibration plate includes a first background region for calibrating the brightness of the scanning module and a second background region for intensifying an edge of a document to be scanned. The driving module is used for driving movement of the calibration plate. As a consequence, the scanning light beam from the scanning module is projected onto the first background region or the second background region of the calibration plate. Under this circumstance, the purposes of calibrating the brightness and increasing the image processing efficiency are both achieved. Moreover, since the calibration plate is driven by the driving module to be moved in the direction parallel with said scanning light beam, the purpose of dynamically adjusting the brightness can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Primax Electronics Ltd.
    Inventors: Tung-Wen Tu, Jiang-Wei Wu
  • Patent number: 8928953
    Abstract: An image reading device has an optical unit, a pair of rail portions, and a driving device. The optical unit reads an image on the document. The pair of rail portions support the optical unit such that this is slidable in the sub scanning direction. The driving device enables the optical unit to move in the sub scanning direction. The driving device engages with the optical unit substantially at the position of its center of gravity in the main scanning direction, and the pair of rail portions are arranged one on each of one and the other sides in the main scanning direction so as to be equidistant from the position of the center of gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Naoki Shibata
  • Patent number: 8928954
    Abstract: Once the number of successive occurrences of document feed errors during execution of fed reading has reached a predetermined number of times, an image reading control portion of the image reading device performs stationary reading in cases in which a stationary-reading document detection portion detects the presence of the document, even when a document set detection portion detects that the document is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Teramoto
  • Patent number: 8928955
    Abstract: A linear light source device illuminates a document properly, and an image reading device includes such a light source device. The light source device includes a light source and a light-guiding member. The light-guiding member introduces the light emitted from the light source from one end portion in x-direction, cause the light to travel in x-direction, and emits the light from a light exit portion at one end in z-direction, which is orthogonal to x-direction. The light-guiding member includes, at the other end in z-direction, a light-reflecting portion that reflects light to the light exit portion. One end face of the light-guiding member in y-direction, which is orthogonal to x- and z-directions, is inclined so as to become closer to the other end face in y-direction with decreasing distance from the light exit portion in z-direction. This allows light to easily travel to the light-reflecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Minamikawa, Tomoharu Horio, Okimoto Kondo
  • Patent number: 8928956
    Abstract: An illumination system includes a light source unit including light emitting elements arranged in array in a main scan direction to project light beams radially, and an optical guide of a long length made from a translucent material to guide incident beams from an exit surface of the light source unit in a certain direction for output, and including at least one surface with a diffuse structure to diffuse a transmitted beam or a reflected beam among the incident beams, wherein the diffuse structure is configured to diffuse the beam at a center at a larger divergence angle than at ends in the main scan direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Iwamatsu, Mitsuru Nakajima, Tetsuya Ogata, Tsuyoshi Fujimoto, Tokiko Inoue, Chihiro Tanaka