Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to send a request for status information to an image processing apparatus. The status information indicates a status of the image processing apparatus. The circuitry is configured to acquire the status information from the image processing apparatus in response to the request. The circuitry is configured to store, in the memory, the status information acquired, in association with identification information. The circuitry is configured to retrieve the identification information from the memory when a standby time elapses. The circuitry is configured to determine whether the identification information retrieved satisfies a certain condition. The circuitry is configured to display, on a display, a screen indicating the status of the image processing apparatus based on the status information acquired, based on a determination that the identification information retrieved satisfies the certain condition.

Abstract: This disclosure pertains to a dynamic pipeline for processing images. The pipeline can receive inventory data or records from an upstream process. These records can include one or more URLs for images relating to a product listing or any other listing. An orchestration layer of the pipeline can carry these records through a series of processes or steps. Each step can be performed by a cluster in the pipeline. Individual task workers in each cluster can pick up each record, perform the task assigned to the cluster, and pass the record to the next step.

Abstract: The present application is directed to system and method for pre-generation of page description language (PDL) for printing. Aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for pre-generating a page description language (PDL) print job for documents for printing. Such pre-generation of the PDL achieves almost instantaneous and efficient printing experience. The methods, systems, and computer readable mediums by pre-generation of the PDL achieves faster printing turnaround time from the time when user clicks “OK” to print the document to the time user picks up the print out is required. The method for pre-generating a PDL print job for a document for printing can determine an instance to pre-generate the PDL print job for the document before the manual election for printing, and issuing a printing instruction in response to a manual election, to send of the pre-generated PDL print job to a printing device.

Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium including instructions that are executable by one or more processors to perform operations including instrumenting a VM is shown. The VM is used to process an object to determine whether the object is associated with malware. Logic within the VM analyzes memory allocated for a process within the VM for a point of interest (POI), the POI being an address of one of a set predetermined instructions likely to be associated with malware. The VMM detects a memory violation during processing of the object and responsive to detecting the memory violation, injects a transition event at the POI on the page on which the POI is located in memory. Further, responsive to detecting an attempted execution of the transition event, the VMM (i) emulates an instruction located at the POI, and (ii) the logic within the VM performs one or more malware detection routines.

Abstract: A method for automatically dividing trademark figurative element codes is disclosed, including: establishing a sample trademark library and establishing a corresponding relationship between sample trademarks and division data for figurative element codes of known filed/registered figurative trademarks; extracting and processing image feature information of the sample trademarks, and establishing a corresponding relationship between the sample trademarks and the extracted image feature information; extracting and processing image feature information of a trademark to be identified; performing a matching retrieval by taking the image feature information of the trademark to be identified as a retrieval condition, and finding out a sample trademark with a highest similarity degree to the image feature information of the trademark to be identified, and a corresponding trademark figurative element code; outputting the trademark figurative element code corresponding to the sample trademark with a highest similarity

Abstract: Font replacement based on visual similarity is described. In one or more embodiments, a font descriptor includes multiple font features derived from a visual appearance of a font by a font visual similarity model. The font visual similarity model can be trained using a machine learning system that recognizes similarity between visual appearances of two different fonts. A source computing device embeds a font descriptor in a document, which is transmitted to a destination computing device. The destination compares the embedded font descriptor to font descriptors corresponding to local fonts. Based on distances between the embedded and the local font descriptors, at least one matching font descriptor is determined. The local font corresponding to the matching font descriptor is deemed similar to the original font. The destination computing device controls presentations of the document using the similar local font. Computation of font descriptors can be outsourced to a remote location.

Abstract: A control for causing an information processing device connected to an apparatus to perform a method includes: acquiring from the apparatus a display setting representing a setting of display for one or more user interface components displayed by the apparatus; selecting, in response to the acquired display setting, one of display settings representing a setting of display for one or more user interface components displayed on a screen of the information processing device; and displaying the one or more user interface components on the screen of the information processing device in accordance with the selected display setting.

Abstract: A redundantly printed security-enhanced document, printing method and system ensure the meaning of the information imparted by variable indicia printed by redundant printing on the document with removable scratch-off coatings. By printing the variable indicia with multiple colors, redundancy and integrity of the intended indicia is achieved. Additionally, inverted color indicia countermeasures to pinprick attacks are also disclosed. The redundantly printed document, methods and systems enhance the overall appearance of the redundantly printed document, and reduce possible consequences resulting from misprinted variable indicia.

Abstract: A method and system for conducting an online payment transaction through a point of sale device. The method includes receiving input from a user selecting an item for purchase through the point of sale device; calculating a total purchase amount for the item in response to a request from the user to purchase the item; and sending payment authorization for the total purchase amount from the point of sale device to a payment entity, in which the payment authorization is sent to the payment entity via a mobile communication device of the user. The method further includes receiving a result of the payment authorization from the payment entity through the mobile communication device; and completing the payment transaction based on the result of the payment authorization.

Abstract: A method and system for conducting an online payment transaction through a point of sale device. The method includes receiving input from a user selecting an item for purchase through the point of sale device; calculating a total purchase amount for the item in response to a request from the user to purchase the item; and sending payment authorization for the total purchase amount from the point of sale device to a payment entity, in which the payment authorization is sent to the payment entity via a mobile communication device of the user. The method further includes receiving a result of the payment authorization from the payment entity through the mobile communication device; and completing the payment transaction based on the result of the payment authorization.

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to acquisition of linked versions of print content having machine-readable links. Examples include acquisition of a message requesting that print content be printed at a destination printing device via the remote printing service, the message comprising link information specifying a selected type of optically machine-readable link and a digital content payoff. Examples further include acquisition, from a linking service, of a linked version of the print content comprising an optically machine-readable link that is associated with the digital content payoff via the linking service.

Abstract: A method for providing content data to a user device, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a reference code from the user device, the reference code corresponding to a printed or displayed linear code; identifying a reference within a content database corresponding to the reference code; identifying content data associated with the reference; and communicating the content data to the user device. Also disclosed is a content server for providing content, and a method for generating unique reference codes.

Abstract: There is provided a method for preloading the glyphs required to display the content of a system. In accordance with an embodiment of the present technique, only those glyphs which are present in the system upon startup or synchronization of an electronic device are preloaded. The glyphs present upon startup or synchronization of the electronic device may be determined by scanning the system. In an illustrated embodiment, scanning the system may include analyzing models and views to determine the glyphs present in the system.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus specifies a difference between a circuit configuration for processing an accepted job and a circuit configuration configured in a reconfiguration circuit, and based on the difference, selects a functional block to be reconfigured in the reconfiguration circuit, and reconfigures the reconfiguration circuit by reading configuration data from storage unit.

Abstract: A device including a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor is provided. The memory stores instructions causing the processor, after execution of the instructions by the processor, to: display a reference page number with each displayed page of a digital document having reference page numbers, the digital document corresponding to a reference document having page numbers that correspond to the reference page numbers; and display a fractional page number with each displayed page of the digital document, each fractional page number corresponding to a portion of a page of the reference document.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a receiving unit that receives a setting for image formation of an image forming apparatus, an addition unit that adds identification information to the setting when the setting has been received in a time period during which it is impossible to communicate with the image forming apparatus, a transmitter that transmits an instruction of the image formation and the setting to the image forming apparatus, and a notifying unit that notifies that the setting has been received in the time period, when the identification information has been added to the setting that the transmitter is to transmit.

Abstract: An input control script embedded in a web page is received by a client terminal that accesses, using a web browser, a web application server on which a web application operates, and that controls an input device. The input control script comprises an acquisition request transmission unit that sends an acquisition request to the input device when a specific operation is performed on the web page from the web application server; an acquisition unit that acquires input information from the input device as a response to the acquisition request; and a drawing process unit that draws the input information acquired by the acquisition unit in a specific drawing area.

Abstract: Methods and devices for encoding or decoding messages, each message including a list of information items. The encoding method comprises determining a first list of indexes associated with information items that are already indexed in a local indexing table and a second list of literal values of other information items not yet indexed in said indexing table; encoding the indexes of the first list; binary compressing at least a serialized binary representation of the literal values of the second list; and concatenating the first list and the second list together to obtain an encoded bitstream of the information items. When the messages are sent over a plurality of connections, a global table is shared between the connections to store the indexed items of information; and a local indexing table for each connection associates indexes with references to an entry of the shared global table.

Abstract: Font replacement based on visual similarity is described. In one or more embodiments, a font descriptor includes multiple font features derived from a visual appearance of a font by a font visual similarity model. The font visual similarity model can be trained using a machine learning system that recognizes similarity between visual appearances of two different fonts. A source computing device embeds a font descriptor in a document, which is transmitted to a destination computing device. The destination compares the embedded font descriptor to font descriptors corresponding to local fonts. Based on distances between the embedded and the local font descriptors, at least one matching font descriptor is determined. The local font corresponding to the matching font descriptor is deemed similar to the original font. The destination computing device controls presentations of the document using the similar local font. Computation of font descriptors can be outsourced to a remote location.

Abstract: Using a web browser, a client terminal accesses a web application server on which a web application operates and controls an image input device. A displayed web page from the server has an embedded image input control script that operates on the web browser and controls image input. Under the control of the image input control script, an image acquisition request is sent to the image input device when a specific operation is performed on the displayed web page, and, as a response, an image is acquired from the image input device. Under control of the image input control script, a selection window is displayed for selecting whether or not to stop operation of the image input device when an event changing the web page occurs while such device is operating, and a stop operation request is sent to the image input device when stopping its operation is selected.

Abstract: Methods and devices to improve the quality of graphics objects based on adaptive stroke thickening are disclosed. The method includes receiving a graphics object having at least one stroke. The graphics object is represented within an object window made of a plurality of cells. The method further includes identifying a fill region being defined by the stroke. Both the fill region and the stroke are represented by a group of cells. The identified fill region is tagged using a predefined flag indicating a tagged fill region or any its attributes. The stroke is strengthened unidirectionally away from the tagged fill region, where a stroke color associated with the stroke being strengthened is replaced by an adapted color provided the stroke color is same as a background color associated with a background, which is a part of the object window.

Abstract: A method for controlling a print device by generating a firing encoder signal from varying one or more characteristics of a reference signal where the one or more characteristics are varied based on at least the position of a print medium at a reference time. The firing encoder signal is used to synchronize firing of at least one print head of the print device after the reference time.

Abstract: An image forming system includes: a sheet feeding unit configured to feed continuous paper into an image forming unit; a winding unit configured to wind up the continuous paper; the image forming unit configured to perform image formation on the continuous paper being conveyed from the sheet feeding unit to the winding unit; and a processor configured to perform control to form a proof image in a second job immediately after completion of a first job and put the second job into a standby state, when a setting is made for formation of the proof image for checking a predetermined page in the second job after completion of the first job but before execution of the second job.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are technologies for facilitating rendering of glyphs. In accordance with one aspect, a vector-based glyph is decomposed into multiple part-glyphs. A font file including rendering data of the part-glyphs is generated. The part-glyphs are individually configured with respective properties. A mapping file that includes configuration information of the part-glyphs may also be generated. The configuration information may include grouping information and the respective properties of the part-glyphs.

Abstract: A method of creating a print application by a single action comprises appending a print application creation button to a browser instance displayed on a user device, receiving a single action user input on the user device to add content displayed in the browser instance as a print application, and creating the print application based on the content. A system for creating a print application comprises a user device communicatively coupled to a server, the user device comprising a processor, a data storage device, and a native print application to display a print application creation button in association with content displayed in a browser instance and obtain data related to the content displayed in the browser instance.

Abstract: Methods and devices to improve the quality of graphics objects based on adaptive stroke thickening are disclosed. The method includes receiving a graphics object having a stroke, where the stroke defines a fill region. The received graphics object is identified as a fill object based on the stroke including a first cell of a stroke color being different from a fill color of a second cell associated with the fill region. The stroke color and the fill color are compared with a background color of a third cell associated with a background according to a predefined condition, where the first cell, the second cell, and the third cell are linearly adjacent to each other. Based on the comparison, an adapted color being different from the background color of the third cell is selected to adaptively strengthen the first cell, which is associated with the stroke, away from the fill region.

Abstract: Addressing an EPROM on a printhead is described. In an example, a printhead includes an electronically programmable read-only memory (EPROM) having a bank of cells arranged in rows and columns, each of the cells having a addressing port, a row select port, and a column select port. A conductor is coupled to the addressing portion of each of the cells. A shift register circuit is coupled to at least one of the row select port and the column select port of each of the cells, the shift register circuit storing samples of an input signal responsive to a plurality of clock signals. A decoder is coupled to the shift register circuit to provide the input signal based on a logical combination of a plurality of data signals and at least a portion of the clock signals.

Abstract: A method of processing image data of an electronic device is provided. The method includes dividing the image data into at least one segment corresponding to a feature of at least part of the image data, determining a category corresponding to the at least one segment, and displaying the at least one segment in a converted form based on the category.

Abstract: A mechanism for fixing a transmission cable enables a wiring shape of a flat cable to be held relatively reliably when the cable is acted upon by torsion force, tensile force and the like from the outside without the cable skin sustaining damage. A foldable insulation sheet is joined in folding surfaces, and a position of the flat cable is regulated by at least the fold portion thereof and joint portion. The mechanism is includes a flat cable, a foldable insulation sheet, and joint portions for joining folding surfaces of the insulation sheet. At least one of the fold portion of the insulation sheet and the joint portions is disposed in a position for regulating the flat cable. Thus, the flat cable is nipped by the folding surfaces of the insulation sheet, and its wiring shape is held by the fold portion or the joint portion.

Abstract: A timeout time used when acquiring data is decided based on data to be acquired from a server.

Abstract: A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The computing device also includes a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations that include receiving information that represents a font and a portion of textual content of an asset. Operations also include identifying one or more typographical features supported by a scalable font format that are capable of being applied to the portion of the textual content based upon the received information representing the font and the portion of textual content of the asset. Operations also include presenting, by the computing device, an exclusive set of selectable representations. Each of the selectable representations represents one of the one or more identified typographical features supported by the scalable font format for initiating application of the corresponding typographical feature to the textual content of the asset.

Abstract: Techniques pertaining to embedding fonts in a PDF document are disclosed. A processing component executing a PDF application programming interface (API) may be operative to identify each character in a PDF file associated with an un-embedded font. The PDF API may store a bitmap representation for each identified character in the PDF file associated with the un-embedded font. The PDF API may then create a bitmap font character from the bitmap representation for each identified character in the PDF file associated with an un-embedded font and replace each reference to a character in the PDF file associated with an un-embedded font with a reference to its corresponding bitmap font character.

Abstract: The application provides method and apparatus for bidirectional typesetting. The method for bidirectional typesetting of the present application comprises: retrieving a small sample used for a document to be bi-directionally typeset; defining at least one reverse region, wherein the reverse region consists of successive characters required to be reversed in the retrieved small sample; and determining locations where the reversed characters will be located in the documents and recording the locations into a big sample.

Abstract: A control device of a printer can delete unnecessary data left in the printer when processing is interrupted without relying on user intervention. A control device of a printer that prints according to print data has a transmission monitor unit that sends the print data to the printer. Based on the status of a storage unit of the printer, the transmission monitor unit sends a command to delete identical data from the storage unit to the printer before sending the print data to the printer.

Abstract: A printing apparatus that is capable of performing a printing process efficiently. The printing apparatus is capable of two-sided printing. A reception unit receives image data. A printing unit prints an image on a sheet based on the image data received. A timer unit measures elapsed time. A control unit instructs the printing unit to print a first side of a first sheet. The control unit decides whether printing of a second side of the first sheet or printing of a first side of a second sheet will be instructed following the printing of the first side of the first sheet based on whether the reception unit receives image data that should be printed on the first side of the second sheet before the elapsed time measured by the timer unit reaches a predetermined time period after instructing the printing unit to print the first side of the first sheet.

Abstract: A print control apparatus includes: a display control unit that provides a plurality of choices for a type of printing medium and causes a user interface, on which one of the plurality of choices is selected by a user, to be displayed on a screen; and a storage unit that stores history of the choices selected at least twice. The display control unit first provides one or more choices of the plurality of choices on the user interface based on the history.

Abstract: In battery voltage monitoring ICs for measuring voltages of unit cells of an assembled battery, communication with a system control unit is realized in consideration of fail-safe. The system control unit and the battery voltage monitoring ICs are coupled to each other by a communication path using a daisy chain. Each battery voltage monitoring IC has a placement setting pin designating, by a binary code, a unit cell group to which the IC is coupled, in the unit cell groups. When it is detected that the Hamming distance between the code indicative of coupling to a group of the highest potential or a group of the lowest potential and a state actually set in the placement setting pin is 1, some failure such as line disconnection, short-circuit, or the like in the placement setting pins is detected, and the communication path is interrupted.

Abstract: According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided systems and methods that involve providing user-selectable fonts to a printing device so that the printing device can facilitate printing of a print task. In this regard, a representative embodiment of a method and system for printing includes enabling a print file corresponding to a print task to be evaluated, and, if it is determined that a printing device to which the print task is directed is unable to process the print task without performing a font substitution, enabling acquiring of the fonts from a specific user. By using the uploaded fonts, the printing device is able to process the print task without performing a font substitution.

Abstract: The image forming control apparatus is provided with: a receiving section that receives a print job including image data and job setting data; a control section that parses the print job inputted by the receiving section from an external section and controls the image forming section to implement the image forming operation based on the job setting data.

Abstract: A segment extracting section extracts, from a document image, a segment that is an image region containing a series of text characters of a uniform size from a document image. When the segment extracting section extracts a plurality of segments, a segment designating section designates one or more of the extracted segments each as an enlargement segment according to text sizes of the respective extracted segments. A scaling-factor determining section determines a scaling factor for each enlargement segment based on the text size of the enlargement segment and a standard text size. An image creating section enlarges each enlargement segment at the scaling factor determined for the enlargement segment and creates a page image including each enlargement segment as enlarged and each non-enlargement segment that is an undesignated segment among the extracted segments.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus, a method of controlling the same and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium are described in which it is possible to disable a particular one of the functions which are implemented using the same communication protocol. A multifunction peripheral (MFP) is capable of communicating with terminal devices. The MFP acquires a capability information request transmitted from the terminal device, returns a capability notification to the terminal device which has transmitted the capability information request, and determines the capabilities which is required by the function that is set to be disabled from among different functions. In this case, the MFP does not notify, as a supported capability, the required capability even if it can be handled by the MFP. Namely, the capability notification is returned such that this capability is not supported.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: a setting unit configured to accept a layout setting in a case of laying out a plurality of pages forming print data on one printing medium sheet and a punch processing setting on the printing medium; and a decision unit configured to decide on respective orientations of the plurality of pages laid out on the printing medium, based on the layout setting and the punch processing setting set by the setting unit.

Abstract: A method for recognizing characters in an image includes receiving the image containing characters to be recognized and analyzing the received image. A first portion of the received image is compared to a set of patterns to determine a first coincidence value for each pattern in the set of patterns and a first series of hypotheses is generated based at least on the determined first coincidence values. A second portion of the received image is compared to a set of selected patterns to determine a second coincidence value for each pattern in the set of selected patterns, where the set of selected patterns is selected based at least on the generated first series of hypotheses. Recognition of the characters is based on the first and second series of hypotheses, and an identified sequence of characters.

Abstract: A host computer (100), wherein the computer is equipped with a font availability determination unit (6) for determining whether or not the font and glyph image specified for characters to be printed are available in a printer (200) and an outline image transmission unit (9) for transmitting an outline image of the specified font to the printer (200) in cases in which it is determined that the font and the like are not available in the printer, and by transmitting the outline image to the printer (200) to print, it is possible to print using a character format which is infinitely close to the font specified by the host computer (100) even in cases in which the specified font and the like are not available in the printer (200).

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first preservation unit configured to preserve execution request information for information processing; an execution unit configured to execute one or more types of the information processing; an execution control unit configured to have the execution unit being capable of executing one of the types of the information processing execute the information processing of the execution request information preserved by the first preservation unit; and a second preservation unit configured to preserve a stop command of the execution unit. If the execution unit does not execute the information processing, the execution control unit checks the second preservation unit if the second preservation unit preserves the stop command to have the execution unit execute a stop procedure.

Abstract: There is provided a method for preloading the glyphs required to display the content of a system. In accordance with an embodiment of the present technique, only those glyphs which are present in the system upon startup or synchronization of an electronic device are preloaded. The glyphs present upon startup or synchronization of the electronic device may be determined by scanning the system. In an illustrated embodiment, scanning the system may include analyzing models and views to determine the glyphs present in the system.

Abstract: Various embodiments for methods and systems for processing a document are disclosed. A font size associated with each of one or more text regions included in the document is determined. A first resolution of each of the one or more text regions is modified based on respective font size associated with each of the one or more text regions to generate a multi-resolution document.

Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure can be embodied in a method that includes dividing a Bezier curve representing a portion of a vector image to be rendered on a display of a computing device into a set of curve segments. Each of the curve segments is approximated using a circular arc from a set of circular arcs. An approximation error for each of the curve segments is determined. A spring constant is calculated as a function of the respective approximation error determined for each of the curve segments in the set of curve segments. The spring constant represents a relative magnitude of the respective approximation errors calculated for the approximated curve segments. The lengths of curve segments are adjusted based on the respective spring constant calculated for each curve segment in the set of curve segments.

Abstract: Subject matter described herein is directed to providing font-rendering information (e.g., XPS file) that is usable to print a document. For example, a font file is received that defines a font type included in the document. A determination is made that a quantity of pages of the document does not exceed a subsetting-optimization threshold. When the quantity of pages does not exceed the threshold, a subsetted font file of the font type is generated. The subsetted file is provided, such as via the spool file, to a print subsystem.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device management system including a peripheral device, a management server configured to manage device information of the peripheral device, and a terminal communicable with the management server. In the device management system, the management server registers key obtaining information received from the terminal while associating the key obtaining information with device identification information of the peripheral device and an authentication key managed by the management server. The management server determines whether the key obtaining information, from the terminal, that is registered while being associated with the device identification information contained in an obtaining request received from the peripheral device matches the key obtaining information contained in the received obtaining request.