Patents Issued in January 29, 2015
  • Publication number: 20150029508
    Abstract: A sample analyzing apparatus comprising a measurement unit configured to measure samples obtained from subjects, an obtaining unit configured to obtain the presence or absence of a disease regarding each sample, a memory in which a measurement result obtained by the measurement unit and the presence or absence of the disease obtained by the obtaining unit are stored in association with the sample, and a communication unit configured to transmit disease information based on the presence or absence of the disease stored in the memory to a receiving apparatus installed in an external facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: SYSMEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio TOYODA, Shinjirou AKAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20150029509
    Abstract: A device is presented. The device includes an electromagnetic guiding device to provide electromagnetic radiation, a reflector that reflects a portion of the electromagnetic radiation to generate a reflected portion of the electromagnetic radiation, wherein the reflector is fully immersed in a multiphase fluid, and a processing subsystem that analyzes the multiphase fluid based upon at least a portion of the reflected portion of the electromagnetic radiation, wherein a principal optical axis of the electromagnetic guiding device substantially aligns with a principal optical axis of the reflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Sandip Maity, Saroj Kumar Mahalik, Vinayak Tilak, Mason Harvey Guy, Neil Geoffrey Harris, Stuart John Eaton
  • Publication number: 20150029510
    Abstract: A toner-amount detection sensor includes a board, a sensor cover, a light emitter, a light receiver, a light-shielding wall, and two locking parts. The light emitter is surface-mounted on the board. The light receiver is surface-mounted on the board. The light-shielding wall is located between the light emitter and the light receiver, abuts the board, and abuts the sensor cover or extends from the sensor cover. The two locking parts are formed at opposite ends of the sensor cover to press the board to lock it from outside the light emitter and light receiver relative to the light-shielding wall, using the abutment between the light-shielding wall and the board as a supporting point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Keisuke Isoda
  • Publication number: 20150029511
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical sensing system (1) for determining the position and/or shape of an associated object (O), the system comprises an optical fibers (10) having one or more optical fiber cores (9) with one or more fiber Bragg gratings (FBG, 8) extending along the full length where the position and/or shape is be to determined of said object (O). A reflectometer (REFL, 12) measures strain at a number of sampling points along the optical fiber cores, and a processor (PROC, 14) determines the position and/or shape based on said measured strains from the plurality of optical fiber cores. The fiber Bragg grating(s) (FBG, 8) extends along the full length of said optical fiber cores (9), the fiber core having a spatially modulated reflection (r) along the said full length of the optical fiber core so that the corresponding reflection spectrum is detectable in said wavelength scan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Gert WIM 'T Hooft, Merel Danielle Leistikow, Jeroen Jan Lambertus Horikx, Milan Jan Henri Marell
  • Publication number: 20150029512
    Abstract: A surface emitting laser comprises an upper reflecting mirror, a lower reflecting mirror, and an active layer located between those mirrors. A cavity of the surface emitting laser consists of the upper reflecting mirror and the lower reflecting mirror. In the surface emitting laser, a plurality of individual light receiving portions is located in an optical path inside the cavity in order to detect a laser beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Tatsuro Uchida, Mamoru Uchida
  • Publication number: 20150029513
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of systems and methods can be provided which can generate data associated with at least one portion of a sample. For example, at least one first radiation can be forwarded to the portion through at least one optical arrangement. At least one second radiation can be received from the portion which is based on the first radiation. Based on an interaction between the optical arrangement and the first radiation and/or the second radiation, the optical arrangement can have a first transfer function. Further, it is possible to forward at least one third radiation to the portion through such optical arrangement (or through another optical arrangement), and receive at least one fourth radiation from the portion which is based on the third radiation. Based on an interaction between the optical arrangement (or the other optical arrangement) and the third radiation and/or the fourth radiation, the optical arrangement (or the other optical arrangement) can have a second transfer function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Guillermo J. Tearney, BRETT EUGENE BOUMA, JOSEPH A. GARDECKI, LlNBO LlU
  • Publication number: 20150029514
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for on-line real-time measuring the surface topography and out-of-plane deformation by using phase-shifting shadow moiré method. Digital Phase-Shifting Shadow Moiré Method is applied to a system, which receives the reflected images from the surface of transparent or non-transparent plate projected under a light beam passing through a grating. Next, by image correction program, the skewed interference fringe pattern is recovered to the image as if the image acquisition equipment is placed normal to the surface. Furthermore, the received images are processed with Phase-Shifting to show the surface topography of the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wei-Chung WANG, Wen-Yi KANG, Ya-Hsin CHANG, Hsuan-Hao HSU
  • Publication number: 20150029515
    Abstract: The invention relates to a laser device, comprising a laser configured to generate laser light and a laser control module configured to receive at least a portion of the laser light generated by the laser, to generate a control signal and to feed the control signal back to the laser for stabilizing the frequency, wherein the laser control module comprises a tunable frequency discriminating element which is preferably continuously frequency tunable, and where the laser control module is placed outside the laser cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: NKT PHOTONICS A/S
    Inventors: Jens E. Pedersen, Poul Varming, Christian V. Poulsen, Thomas P. Fagerhøj, Bjarke Gøth, Henrik Sørensen
  • Publication number: 20150029516
    Abstract: A laser scanner device for optically scanning and measuring an environment includes a base, a measuring head which is rotatable relative to the base, and a mirror which is rotatably relative to the measuring head, wherein, in at least one operating mode, the laser scanner is mounted on a cart by a mounting device, the cart moves the base which is fixedly connected with the mounting device, the measuring head rests relative to the base, the mirror rotates, and the measuring head is locked with the mounting device by a locking mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Christoph Neundorf, Reinhard Becker
  • Publication number: 20150029517
    Abstract: Methods for measuring a thickness of an object including acquiring at least one of a wavelength domain spectrum for an amplitude ratio (?) and a phase difference (?) of reflected light from a film material, converting the wavelength domain spectrum into a 1/wavelength domain spectrum, acquiring a resulting spectrum by performing fast fourier transform (FFT) on the 1/wavelength domain spectrum, and measuring a thickness of the film material from the resulting spectrum may be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jang-Ik PARK, Il-Hwan NAM, Kwan-Woo RYU
  • Publication number: 20150029518
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a calculation unit and a white layer density determination unit. The calculation unit calculates, based on multiple color component signals to be used for image formation, an image layer halftone percentage of an image layer to be formed on a recording medium. The white layer density determination unit determines, based on the image layer halftone percentage, a white layer halftone percentage of a white layer to be formed as an underlying layer of the image layer on the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke TASHIRO, Masahiko KUBO, Jun KOYATSU, Keiichi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20150029519
    Abstract: In a case where a determination is made that a density of a pixel of interest is greater than a threshold, or in a case where a pixel having a greater density than the threshold is present in a neighborhood of the pixel of interest at a predetermined distance from the pixel of interest, exposure with intensity corresponding to a density of the pixel of interest to which a predetermined density has not been added is performed on a photoreceptor drum at a position corresponding to the pixel of interest. Otherwise, exposure with intensity corresponding to a density of the pixel of interest to which the predetermined density has been added is performed on the photoreceptor drum at the position corresponding to the pixel of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Atsushi Shoji
  • Publication number: 20150029520
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a protected area determining unit that determines a protected area to be protected by forming a transparent color material pattern made of a transparent color material on recording paper; a grain-direction acquiring unit that acquires a grain direction of the recording paper; a pattern determining unit that determines a direction of the transparent color material pattern based on the acquired grain direction; a pattern generating unit that generates the transparent color material pattern in the determined direction; and a color material forming unit that forms the transparent color material pattern in the determined direction on the protected area of the recording paper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Takanori Itoh
  • Publication number: 20150029521
    Abstract: A printing apparatus prints an image in a right direction based on an open/close state of a flap of a held envelope and on a position of the flap received from a user. A control method for controlling a printing apparatus, includes determining whether an envelope having a flap is held by a holding unit with its flap opened or the envelope is held by the holding unit with its flap closed, receiving, from a user, a front end, a far side, or a back end in the conveyance direction of the envelope as a position of the flap of the envelope held by the holding unit, and performing control such that a direction of an image to be printed on the envelope is decided based on a result of the determination and on the received position of the flap, and the image is printed on the envelope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Nobuaki Miyahara
  • Publication number: 20150029522
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit, an intermediate data generation unit, an extraction unit, a conversion unit, an addition unit, a determination unit, and a drawing processing unit. In the case where the determination unit determines that intermediate data for spot color image data have background image data, the drawing processing unit performs a drawing process so as to add a color of spot color image data and a color of the background image data of the spot color image data on the basis of color transparency information added by the addition unit, color information on spot color image data converted by the conversion unit, and color information on the background image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Teppei NAGATOMI
  • Publication number: 20150029523
    Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, an area separating unit classifies a property of a pixel in an image into any of plural properties that include at least a character property and an image property, a black generation and UCR processing unit performs a black generation process and a UCR process for the image, and a process amount specifying unit specifies a black generation amount and a UCR amount used in the black generation process and the UCR process to the black generation and UCR processing unit. Further, the process amount specifying unit sets the black generation amount and the UCR amount on the basis of a smallest color component value of a pixel with the image property using a conversion characteristic that varies in accordance with a lightness value, a chroma saturation value and a hue value of the pixel with the image property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Toshiki Mamura
  • Publication number: 20150029524
    Abstract: A host apparatus connectable to an image forming apparatus and a method are provided. The host apparatus includes a storage configured to store a portable document format (PDF) file, an object extractor configured to extract at least one object that requires color conversion from among objects included in the stored PDF file, a color conversion processor configured to perform color conversion process for each of the extracted objects by using a color conversion function corresponding to each of the extracted objects, and a communication interface configured to transmit the PDF file where the color conversion process is performed to the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nam-ju SHIN, Hyun-soo OH, Woo-jun CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20150029525
    Abstract: A sheet supply apparatus includes: a tray on which a stack of sheets can be placed, an air blowing section that blows air towards the stack of sheets to float at least a topmost sheet, a sucking and conveying section, above the tray, that sucks said floating sheet(s) and conveys said sheet(s) in a prescribed direction, and a first light source that emits a first stripshaped slit light having a vertically extending component such that the slit light crosses at least a first edge of a first floating sheet and a second edge of a second floating sheet. An image capture section captures an image of the first slit light, a calculating section calculates a vertical clearance between the first and second sheets, and an air amount adjusting section adjusts an amount of air to be blown by the air blowing section based on the calculated vertical clearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Atsuhiko SHIMOYAMA, Noboru OOMOTO, Hiroaki UMEMOTO, Hiroshi MIZUNO, Ryo OSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20150029526
    Abstract: A system includes a processing apparatus, and an information apparatus. The processing apparatus includes a first communication unit that transmits identification information of the processing apparatus to the information apparatus. The information apparatus includes a second communication unit that receives the identification information transmitted by the first communication unit, and a driver installing unit to install a driver for controlling the processing apparatus corresponding to the identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto OSHIUMI
  • Publication number: 20150029527
    Abstract: In a printing system, the information processing apparatus includes: a first obtaining unit which obtains hardware information of a printing apparatus at the time of installation of a printer driver associated with the printing apparatus; a unit which decides on a printer driver to be installed from among a plurality of printer drivers that are associated with the printing apparatus and differ from one another in specifications based on the hardware information; a second obtaining unit which transmits to the printing apparatus attribute information of the printer driver that has been decided on, and obtains as a response thereto a configuration file for expanding functions of the printer driver that has been decided on; and a unit which installs the printer driver that has been decided on, and performs functional expansion for the printer driver using the obtained configuration file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Hiroaki Nakata
  • Publication number: 20150029528
    Abstract: An information processing device including a communication unit communicating with a conversion device, and a control unit configured to select one or more target spreadsheets from among spreadsheets contained in target information, the target information being described in a format of a markup language and contains the spreadsheets, each of the spreadsheets being individually identified based on tag information contained in the target information, generate transmission information based on the one or more selected target spreadsheets, control the communication unit to transmit the generated transmission information to the conversion device, and control the communication unit to receive one or more pieces of image information from the conversion device, each of the one or more pieces of image information being generated through conversion by the conversion device based on a corresponding one of the one or more selected target spreadsheets included in the transmission information transmitted to the conversion
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Chitoshi ITO
  • Publication number: 20150029529
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a setting information transmitting portion to transmit setting information including a setting screen stored in a screen storage area, screen identification information thereof, and a setting value stored in a setting value storage area to a remote operation device; a remote setting portion to, in response to remote operation information being received after transmission of the setting information, update the setting value stored in the setting value storage area with a setting value included in the remote operation information; and a remote setting screen update portion to generate a setting screen based on the setting value stored in the setting value storage area and update the setting screen stored in the setting screen storage area, after the setting value is updated. An operation is specified based on positional information included in the remote operation information in the updated setting screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Akihiko ODA, Manabu Furukawa, Hiroki Tajima, Kenzo Yamamoto, Hiroki Ueda
  • Publication number: 20150029530
    Abstract: An information processing device may be configured to have data, which is outputted by a first application, be processed by a second application, which is selected from among a plurality of applications. The information processing device may send execution instruction information that instructs an execution of the scan process to the image processing device. The information processing device may acquire the one or more image data from the image processing device. The information processing device may acquiring property information indicating an execution property of the scan process. The information processing device may extract one or more supporting applications supporting the execution property. The information processing device may display identification information for identifying the one or more supporting applications on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Norihiko ASAI
  • Publication number: 20150029531
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging device having an information protection function, comprising an imaging control unit, an interface control unit, and at least two interfaces, and further comprising a changeover switch unit provided between the interfaces and the interface control unit, configured to change over the physical communication or physical isolation between the interfaces and the interface control unit. The imaging device provided in the solution maintains the physical communication or physical isolation between the interfaces and the interface control unit via the changeover switch unit, reduces the possibility of communicating between the interfaces via the interface control unit, thus avoiding the leakage of user data via the communicated interfaces, and reducing potential network security risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: WANLI SUN
  • Publication number: 20150029532
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus for authenticating a near field communication (NFC) device, which receives information about an application being executed on an NFC device when the NFC device is tagged, determines an authentication method based on the received information, receives and authenticates a log in information corresponding to the determined authentication method from the NFC device, and allows the use of the image forming apparatus based on a result of authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-in LEE, Dae-hyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20150029533
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that makes it possible to easily create an access button on a Web browser, for accessing a server from the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus is capable of communicating with the server via a network. The image forming apparatus requests the server to perform authentication of the image forming apparatus, and receives a result of the authentication from the server. When the received result of the authentication indicates success, favorite information including a URL of the server is registered. A button for accessing the server is displayed based on the favorite information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Shiro Kunori
  • Publication number: 20150029534
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first receiving unit receiving a print request; a first specifying unit specifying user identification information stored in a first memory unit in association with first identification information related to a transmission source of the print request; an acquiring unit acquiring second identification information from the print request when the user identification information is not specified by the first specifying unit; a second memory unit storing data related to the print request in association with the user identification specified by the first specifying unit or the second identification acquired by the acquiring unit; a second receiving unit receiving the user identification or the second identification information from an apparatus connected with the information processing system through a network; and a sending unit sending the user identification received by the second receiving unit or the date stored in the second memory unit to the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayori NISHIDA, Munetake MOROYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150029535
    Abstract: A service providing system that provides a service to a service using apparatus includes a management information storage unit that stores management information associating service identification information of the service, user identification information of a user using the service, and device identification information of the service using apparatus; an authentication unit that authenticates user authentication information for user authentication and/or device authentication information for device authentication acquired from the service using apparatus; a service identification unit that identifies the service associated with the authentication information based on the management information and the authentication information that has been authenticated; and an execution unit that executes a process according to a use request for the identified service acquired from the service using apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Naritake KONDOH, Shohta SUZUKI, Shohichi NAITOH, Sachiko TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150029536
    Abstract: A service providing system includes a unit that stores management information associating user identification, service identification information, and device identification information; a unit that receives authentication information from a service using apparatus; a unit that performs an authentication process on the authentication information; a unit that identifies a service based on the authentication information and the management information when the authentication information is authenticated; and an execution unit that executes a process according to a service use request. The execution unit includes a unit that determines rule information to be applied to a user using rule information to be applied to the service according to use history information, a unit that applies the rule information to be applied to the user to the process associated with the service use request; and a unit that stores a record of the applied rule information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shohta SUZUKI, Naritake KONDOH, Shohichi NAITOH, Sachiko TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150029537
    Abstract: If an event that requires reboot of an image forming apparatus has occurred, a time remaining until a shutdown time set for an automatic shutdown function is compared against a threshold value, and if the time remaining is shorter than the threshold value, the image forming apparatus shuts down without rebooting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Keigo Goda
  • Publication number: 20150029538
    Abstract: A multifunction peripheral includes: a facsimile communication section, an image memory, a job management section, a transfer instruction reception section, a password creation section, a data transfer control section, and a delete instruction reception section. When the delete instruction reception section has received a delete instruction, the job management section compares a password indicated by the delete instruction with a password created in correspondence with facsimile data of a fax job targeted for deletion by the delete instruction, and deletes the fax job indicated by the delete instruction under condition that the passwords agree with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Kentaro Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20150029539
    Abstract: A method for providing a user interface of an image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus are provided. The method includes displaying a setting user interface (UI) to set a function of the image forming apparatus, and when a user manipulation is not input to the setting UI for a predetermined time before a user finishes setting the function, temporarily storing setting information that the user has input through the setting UI. The method includes when a predetermined event occurs, re-displaying the setting UI corresponding to the setting information. Accordingly, the UI is effectively provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ji-hoon KIM
  • Publication number: 20150029540
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that supports a near field communication (NFC) function includes an NFC tag for storing installation information of an application; a wireless communication module for receiving a profile including wireless configuration data from a mobile device, wherein the wireless configuration data is input by a user in execution of the application that is installed in the mobile device by using the installation information; and a control unit for forming wireless configuration based on the profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byeong-tak JO, Byoung-yue Kim, Jung-jin Park, Hyung-sik Byun
  • Publication number: 20150029541
    Abstract: A mobile device or an image forming apparatus for providing a user interface, wherein the mobile device or the image forming apparatus receives product specifications of the mobile device or the image forming apparatus via near field communication (NFC) to determine a layout of the user interface of the mobile device or the image forming apparatus, and displays the user interface having the layout determined with respect to a predetermined application before.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tae-jung Yun
  • Publication number: 20150029542
    Abstract: An information processing system has a terminal apparatus, an information processor, and an image processor connected to one another. The information processor includes first and second virtual machines, a first receiving unit receiving a connection request from the image processor, a first forwarding unit forwarding the connection request to the first machine, a second receiving unit receiving another connection request from the terminal apparatus, and a second forwarding unit forwarding the another connection request to the second machine. The first machine includes an acquiring unit receiving from the image processor job information according to a job set by a user and acquiring second machine information based on the job information, a job transfer requesting unit requesting the second machine to transfer the job based on the second machine information, and a connecting unit receiving the job from the second machine and connecting the first machine and the image processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masao MORITA, Tadao MICHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20150029543
    Abstract: An information processing system has a terminal apparatus, an information processor, and an image processor connected to one another. The information processor includes first and second virtual machines, a first receiving unit receiving a connection request from the image processor, a first forwarding unit forwarding the connection request to the first machine, a second receiving unit receiving another connection request from the terminal apparatus, and a second forwarding unit forwarding the another connection request to the second machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao MORITA, Tadao MICHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20150029544
    Abstract: A method of providing a context-aware printing service includes storing schedule information of a user; storing contents related with the schedule; identifying a location of a mobile terminal of the user and a current time; determining whether the identified location and the identified time are consistent with the schedule information; transmitting a guide message to print out the contents to the mobile terminal if the identified location and the identified time are consistent with the schedule information; sending, by the mobile terminal, a printing request to an image forming apparatus; and printing out the contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae-jung Yun
  • Publication number: 20150029545
    Abstract: An application is determined, which has a function of printing data using a printer and requests capability information of the printer. Based on the determined application and the capability information of the printer, sizes of selection candidates of a recording medium to be used for printing are decided. The decided sizes are provided to the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Daisuke Hori
  • Publication number: 20150029546
    Abstract: An update program is acquired in a main body device from an external device, a generation of noise from a noise generating source that has possibility to generate noise to a communication between the main body device and the slave device is suppressed, and after that, a slave device update program is transferred from the main body device to the slave device in the second communication method (second communication speed) which is faster than the first communication method (first communication speed).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Yutaka Nishizaki
  • Publication number: 20150029547
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a rule acquiring part for acquiring a printing rule from a print server; a job generating part for generating a print job containing header information showing settings of the print job and sending the generated print job to the print server; an initial determination part for making an initial determination to determine whether or not the printing rule is applied to the print job generated by the job generating part based on the header information of the print job and displaying a result of the initial determination on a display part; and a job controlling part for continuing a process on the print job in response to a user instruction to continue, and suspending the process on the print job in response to a user instruction to suspend after the result of the initial determination is displayed on the display part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC,
    Inventor: Kenji FUKUDOME
  • Publication number: 20150029548
    Abstract: A information processing device includes: a job generating part for generating the print job in response to a user instruction; and a job transmitting part for separating job information and header information showing settings of the print job and sending the separated header information to a print server. The print server includes: an initial determination part for making an initial determination to determine a printing rule applied to the print job based on the header information and sending a result of the initial determination to the information processing device; and a job controlling part for continuing a process on the print job in response to receiving a continue instruction from the information processing device, and suspending the process on the print job in response to receiving a suspend instruction from said information processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Kenji FUKUDOME
  • Publication number: 20150029549
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate with a printing apparatus, and a first controller configured to generate a first print job designating one of a plurality of sheet tray of the printing apparatus, and a second print job not designating any one of the plurality of sheet tray of the printing apparatus. A printing apparatus includes an image forming unit, an operation unit, and a second controller configured to determine whether a print job received from the image processing apparatus is the first print job or the second print job. When the first print job is received, the second controller controls the image forming unit to execute the first print job using the sheet tray designated by the first print job, while when the second print job is received, it is executed using a sheet tray designated through the operation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Mareyuki MURATA
  • Publication number: 20150029550
    Abstract: An information processing device comprising: a data sharing unit causing an application to process data output from a data output source application; a communication interface configured to perform communication with an external device; and a processor that, when executing the instructions, performs operations comprising: acquiring an image data set from the external device through the communication interface; defining plural image data groups, each of the plural image data groups including at least one of the plurality of image data included in the image data set; selecting a plurality of the applications each of which is corresponding to each of the plural image data groups, respectively; and causing the data sharing unit to perform a sharing process of making each of the plurality of the selected applications process the at least one of the plurality of image data included in each of the plural image data groups, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Norihiko ASAI
  • Publication number: 20150029551
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus constituting a print system includes a reception unit configured to receive a job, a determination unit configured to analyze job data of the job, and determine whether or not the job involves a storage job for performing data storage processing to a non-volatile storage unit of the image forming apparatus, an analysis unit, and a communication unit. In a case where the job is determined to involve the storage job, the analysis unit performs simplified analysis processing for obtaining list display information for displaying storage target data stored by the storage job prior to the data storage processing. When the communication unit receives a display request for displaying a list of jobs including the storage job from a second image forming apparatus, the communication unit transmits, to the second image forming apparatus, list information including information about the storage target data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Tatsunori OKADA
  • Publication number: 20150029552
    Abstract: A print server includes: a storing part for storing a printing rule defining an output condition for printing; a notifying part for notifying an information processing device of the printing rule and a setting change process which can be changed by a user through user operation to select corresponding to the printing rule; and a job converting part for changing a print setting of the print job based on the setting change process selected by the user thereby converting the print job to the print job matching the printing rule. The information processing device includes: an acquiring part for acquiring the printing rule and information relating to the setting change process; and a setting changing part for changing the setting change process performed by the job converting part to a different process within a range matching the printing rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Maiko NISHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20150029553
    Abstract: A display operating device includes a position detecting section, an axis decision section, a movement determining section, a display section, and a first rotation processing section. The position detecting section is configured to detect three positions on a touch surface. The axis decision section is configured to decide a first axis using first and second positions which are two of the three positions. The movement determining section is configured to determine whether or not a third position, which is the remaining one of the three positions, is moving. The first rotation processing section is configured to, when with the 3D object displayed on the display section the three positions are detected and the third position is determined to be moving, rotate the 3D object by a first predetermined angle about the first axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Norie Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20150029554
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for printing data with a predetermined format transmitted from a terminal device using Bluetooth communication. The method includes receiving the data having the predetermined format from the terminal device using Bluetooth communication; combining the received data having the predetermined format with template data corresponding to the terminal device stored in a printing apparatus; and printing the combined data. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain the same printing result even when different printing apparatuses print the data by transmitting the data with the predetermined format from the terminal device to the different printing apparatuses using Bluetooth communication, and to obtain the same printing result when printing the data with the predetermined format by transmitting the data with the predetermined format from the terminal device or transmitting data obtained by combining the data with the predetermined format with the template data from the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hwang-hyeon GHA, Tae-jung YUN
  • Publication number: 20150029555
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided though which a transaction, e.g., in a multi-tier, distributed application may be initiated from a portable or hand-held device, such as a smartphone. A computer system or systems, possibly remote from the device, may approve the transaction, complete it, or both, and the remote computer system or systems may cause a document to be printed, e.g., by a printer physically proximate to the device. Aspects of the invention are illustrated by embodiments in which a drug prescription may be created electronically using a hand-held device. In such an embodiment, the prescription may be transmitted to one or more remote computer systems, such as an application server, for processing. If specified, the remote computer systems may cause a prescription to be printed, e.g., at a printer near the prescriber's location. The prescriber may sign the printed prescription and give it to a patient or pharmacy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INC.
    Inventor: John KOEHL
  • Publication number: 20150029556
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image processing device; a display portion capable of detecting a touch of an input object; a storage storing preset-setting groups; a preset-setting-group-selection-screen display controller displays icons corresponding to the preset-setting groups; and an image-processing-device controller for controlling the image processing device. When at least two icons are displayed on the display portion such that one icon is displayed in a selected state manner, and a specific icon is displayed in a non-selected state manner, and when the specific icon is touched, the preset-setting-group-selection-screen display controller moves the specific icon located on a second area to a first area and moves the one icon located on the first area to the second area in a direction in which the specific icon is moved, and displays the specific icon in the selected state manner and display the one icon in the non-selected state manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Keitaro TOMONO
  • Publication number: 20150029557
    Abstract: Provided is photo retouching software which is easy for photo studio personnel to use. Upon opening photo image(s), special photo retoucher converts photo image data thereof to working color space image data. At such time(s), if working ICC profile(s) is/are set which is/are different from ICC profile(s) previously embedded in such photo image file(s), color perceptual matching is carried out on the photo image data thereof based on such embedded ICC profile(s) and working ICC profile(s) when such photo image file(s) is/are opened. Furthermore, when such photo image(s) is/are displayed at monitor(s), such image data is converted to monitor color space image data through color matching using working ICC profile(s) and monitor ICC profile(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuhisa TAKABAYASHI, Masaru HOSHINO, Atsushi HATTA