Detail Of Image Placement Or Content Patents (Class 358/1.18)
  • Patent number: 11907596
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a method for variable data printing. A data set of compressed data is provided. The data set corresponds to a basic image layout comprising a plurality of dots. Using at least one general purpose computation on graphics processing unit the compressed data is decompressed to obtain decompressed data corresponding to the basic image layout. To each dot of the plurality of dots of the basic image layout a color value is assigned based on a reference entry of a color lookup table such that a decompressed first customized image layout to be printed is obtained. The decompressed first customized image layout is provided to at least one printer device. At least the decompressed first customized image layout is printed. The at least one printer device continuously prints subsequent decompressed customized image layouts at a predefined minimum printing speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: BOBST MEX SA
    Inventor: Gregory Gascon
  • Patent number: 11895279
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a placement portion in which a placement surface on which an original document is placed is formed, an imaging portion that is arranged on a center side of the placement surface in an apparatus width direction above the placement surface in an apparatus upward and downward direction and images the original document, a display portion having a display screen of which at least a part is arranged on a far side of the placement surface in an apparatus depth direction and the center side of the placement surface in the apparatus width direction between the placement surface and the imaging portion in the apparatus upward and downward direction, an irradiation portion that is arranged on the center side of the placement surface in the apparatus width direction above the display portion in the apparatus upward and downward direction and irradiates the placement surface with light, and a pair of other irradiation portions that are respectively arranged on both sides of the irradiation
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Takuya Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11893722
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for quantitative and qualitative evaluation of laser printed samples, the method comprising the following steps: a) providing (S1) a laser printed sample, b) capturing (S2) a digital raster image of the laser printed part of the laser printed sample and thereon providing digital image information that constitutes the digital raster image, c) identifying (S3) at least one distinct part within the digital image information, d) obtaining at least one image histogram for the identified at least one distinct part of the digital image information, e) fitting (S4) a probability density function on the obtained at least one image histogram, and f) determining (S5) at least one parameter of the probability density function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Davide Tranchida, Klaus-Juergen Buchmann, Bhawna Kulshreshtha, Denis Yalalov
  • Patent number: 11882256
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller receives a first e-mail from an external device. The first e-mail has a print file attached thereto and is addressed to a device e-mail address assigned to a printing device. The controller determines a fee to be charged for image formation based on the attached print file. The controller generates a second e-mail including: a first amount that is the amount of the determined fee; and a first URL for a payment page for paying the first amount. The controller transmits the generated second e-mail to the external device in reply to the received first e-mail. After payment of the first amount is completed through access to the first URL included in the transmitted second e-mail, the controller transmits to the external device either print data based on the print file or storage destination information for the print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yushi Deura, Shunsuke Minamikawa, Tetsuya Okuno, Haruka Azechi, Ayaka Hotta
  • Patent number: 11875290
    Abstract: A method for managing mainframe billable resources for a plurality of mainframe environments is provided. The method includes receiving a job file from a user, the job file including a batch file relating to a mainframe job and a mainframe task; identifying an override statement in the job file; determining, based on a result of the identifying, a mapping strategy according to a predetermined criterion, the mapping strategy relating to a mapping of the job file to a billing entity identifier; authorizing the job file based on the billing entity identifier and a logon identifier corresponding to the user; mapping the job file to the billing entity identifier based on the determined mapping strategy; recording, in a memory, information relating to the mapping; and executing, in a mainframe environment, the job file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Michael Delfranco, Debabrata Ghosh, Sanjay Jain, Brian S Elliott, Joseph Alan Blue, Julia Elliott, Sivaprasad Avula, David Thomas Crossen, Angelica Casali, Anthony Iannolo
  • Patent number: 11853630
    Abstract: A printing system includes a digital front end (DFE) system connected to a plurality of printing devices. The DFE system manages printing operations to the plurality of printing devices. The DFE system also includes a printing device connectivity manager to manage connections with the printing devices. Printing connectivity modules are installed at the printing device connectivity manager using application programming interfaces (APIs) that are loaded at the creation of the printing connectivity modules. The APIs allow the printing connectivity modules to interact with the printing devices. The printing connectivity modules can communicate with application modules located at the printing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Neil-Paul Payoyo Bermundo, Edwin Philip Lockwood, Yoshihiro Osada
  • Patent number: 11853985
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, via a client device, a request to configure a resource transfer of a first type; determining a first set of themes associated with resource transfers of the first type; and providing, for display on the client device, a user interface for configuring the resource transfer with theme data for a theme, wherein providing the user interface includes: displaying at least a subset of the first set of themes; receiving, via the client device, a selection of one of the themes of the displayed subset; obtaining an indication of available multimedia content items associated with the selected theme; and graphically presenting user interface elements corresponding to the multimedia content items via the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Dino Paul D'Agostino, Alexander Copeland Wright
  • Patent number: 11849330
    Abstract: A system for providing geolocation-based policy rules is provided. The system includes a policy engine and a memory communicatively coupled to the policy engine. The policy engine is configured to receive geolocation data for a plurality of objects. The policy engine is configured to create, based on the geolocation data, location policy attributes for the plurality of objects. The policy engine is configured to incorporate the location policy attributes into policy rules. The policy rules include rules for accessing the plurality of objects. The policy engine is further configured to execute the policy rules with regard to the plurality of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: ASG Technologies Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhi Balan, Randy Baiad, Robert Russell
  • Patent number: 11831824
    Abstract: The image processing apparatus obtains scanned images of each page obtained by scanning business forms including a plurality of pages or business forms of different types collectively, manages a division method associated with feature information on each of previous scanned images and the previous scanned images, analyzes, based on the feature information, whether any of the previous scanned images similar to a scanned image of the first page of the obtained scanned images exists, and divides, in a case where any of the previous scanned images similar to the scanned image of the first page exists, the obtained scanned images by a division method associated with the previous scanned image similar to the scanned image of the first page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenta Inoue
  • Patent number: 11813840
    Abstract: In some examples, a print control strip includes at least one control patch configured as an element for color management. The element for color management may be configured to measure a color density and/or at least one spectral value and/or an area of coverage of individual printed printing colors. The print control strip further includes at least one control patch configured as a printing mark. The printing mark is configured for aligning a substrate in a transport direction and/or in a transverse direction. Additionally, the print control strip includes at least one control patch configured as a plate recognition patch. The plate recognition patch is configured to assign at least one printing color used to a printing plate and/or to an application mechanism and/or is configured for such assignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: KOENIG & BAUER AG
    Inventors: Steven Flemming, Ulrich Köhler, Christian Pilz, Carsten Reinsch, Martin Riese
  • Patent number: 11816516
    Abstract: A set of computer-readable instructions, when executed by a computer in an information processing device, causes the information processing device to perform: a setting process; and in response to receiving a print instruction in which a cut print setting is set: a generation process; and a transmission process. The setting process sets the cut print setting for printing an image on a sheet and dividing the printed sheet at a center position thereof. The generation process acquires image data representing a target image to generate processed image data representing a processed image in which a gap area is arranged within a range including the center position. No colorant is deposited in a region on a sheet corresponding to the gap area during the printer printing the processed image on the sheet. The transmission process transmits print data based on the processed image data and a cut command to the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yushi Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11811983
    Abstract: A system for capturing images during production of printed material includes an optical device comprising a plurality of cameras arranged in an array with adjacent pairs of cameras having overlapping fields of view. An imaging controller device determines a layout of content on printed material, and determines, based on the layout, an optical system configuration profile. Determining the optical system configuration profile includes selecting one or more cameras for capturing images of regions of interest on the printed material and determining a trigger interval for triggering the selected one or more cameras. The imaging controller device triggers the selected cameras at times determined based on the trigger interval to capture images of the regions of interest on the printed material as the printed material moves in fields of view of the one or more cameras during production of the printed material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SYS-TECH SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Lee M. Clark
  • Patent number: 11804173
    Abstract: A display device includes a light emitting element, a timing controller, and an initialization power generator. The timing controller determines whether a second image associated with a second frame is different from a first image associated with a first frame. The second frame immediately follows the first frame. The initialization power generator is electrically connected to the timing controller, provides a reference voltage for initializing the light emitting element in the second frame when/if the second image is identical to the first image, and provides a first adjusted voltage unequal to the reference voltage for initializing the light emitting element in the second frame when/if the second image is different from the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Si Beak Pyo
  • Patent number: 11797240
    Abstract: At least one of the first notification and the second notification is provided via a display device, based on a fact that, by the editing of an object, an object with a transmission property is overlapped on the front surface of an object to be printed by use of a spot color ink, the first notification being provided for warning that the object with the transmission property is in a state of being overlapped on the front surface of the object to be printed by use of the spot color ink, the second notification being provided for asking whether or not a predetermined overlapping state in which the object with the transmission property is overlapped on the front surface of the object to be printed by use of the spot color ink is to be maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keisuke Nagamine
  • Patent number: 11789395
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes circuitry that detects a position at which a first image is formed on a first face of a recording medium between an instant when the first image is formed on the first face of the recording medium and an instant when a second image is formed on a second face of the recording medium, calculates a first adjustment value used to adjust a position at which the second image is formed on the second face of the recording medium, based on the detected position at which the first image is formed on the first face of the recording medium, adjusts the position at which the second image is formed on the second face of the recording medium, based on the first adjustment value, and detects the adjusted position at which the second image is formed on the second face of the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yukifumi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11789677
    Abstract: An information processing device may be configured to communicate with a communication destination device selected as a communication target among a plurality of devices. The information processing device may store, in the storage unit, first identifying information for identifying a device that was selected as a communication destination device among the plurality of devices. The information processing device may execute a connection confirmation process confirming that a communication interface has received connection confirmation information sent by the communication destination device identified by the first identifying information stored in the storage unit when instructions are activated by the information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Norihiko Asai
  • Patent number: 11789390
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is configured to arrange a plurality of pages, including a first page and a second page adjacent to the first page, in print data, without providing a margin between adjacent pages in the plurality of pages. The image forming apparatus includes a changer configured to change at least one of a position or an angle of the second page, such that a color of a first edge portion region of the first page and a color of a second edge portion region, adjacent to the first edge portion region, of the second page, satisfy a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidenori Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11775229
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first setting unit configured to set a layout pattern for a perforation process or a crease process on paper in response to selection by a user, a second setting unit configured to set the number of aggregated pages laid out on a print side of the paper in response to selection by the user, and a control unit configured to perform first processing to avoid selection of a predetermined number of aggregated pages in the second setting unit based on a first layout pattern selected in the first setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiko Tokuda
  • Patent number: 11748048
    Abstract: Methods for identifying and generating a preview set of documents for use with variable data printing operations reduce the number of records that are previewed using filtering criteria. Records to be included in the preview set include text objects having text variables, image objects having image variables, and barcode objects having barcode variables. Records for the preview set also include those defined by rules and associated conditions based on data provided to generate the documents. A better representation of the variable data print job is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Javier A. Morales, Jobert Lim, Michelle De Beus
  • Patent number: 11733945
    Abstract: Rules for variable data printing operations are defined using statements having text or image variables used in an object for a document template. Statements include conditions that evaluate content or data for the variables to determine whether the resulting content or data for the object is modified. Multiple statements are used within a rule, including those with complex expressions. The rules allow the generations of variety of documents that include different and fixed content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Javier A. Morales, Timothy Sterling Geesman
  • Patent number: 11727236
    Abstract: An image forming system is provided. The image forming system comprises an image forming unit configured to execute a print job and form an image on a supplied sheet; and an inspection unit configured to inspect quality of the image formed in the sheet, wherein the inspection unit does not set a sheet discharged by the image forming unit without being used for the print job to a target of inspection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuo Wakai
  • Patent number: 11729323
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to connect to an external apparatus includes a display control unit configured to control icons to be arranged and displayed in list form on a remote user interface provided to the external apparatus accessing the information processing apparatus, wherein the icons are displayed on a plurality of pages on a local user interface of the information processing apparatus, and a control unit configured to control movement of the icons displayed on the local user interface, in response to an operation on the remote user interface. The display control unit displays a first instruction button in association with an icon included in the icons displayed in list form, and the first instruction button is configured to instruct the control unit to move the icon from a page to another page in the plurality of pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Sora Kumagai
  • Patent number: 11727193
    Abstract: Described herein is a computer implemented method. The method comprises detecting initiation of a curved text effect in respect of a selected text string of a design; determining a radius; processing the selected text string to split the selected text string into one or more text string elements, each text string element being associated with a glyph; calculating, for each text string element, an element transformation that includes element rotation data and element position data, the element transformation being based on the radius; and rendering each text string element by, for a given text string element, rendering the glyph that the given text string element is associated with based on the element transformation calculated for the given text string element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: CANVA PTY LTD
    Inventors: Declan Robin Vong, Matthew David Anderson, Jesse James Walker, Michael Hebron
  • Patent number: 11720541
    Abstract: A system for confirming file integrity of automatically generated documents is disclosed. The system comprises one or more processors that execute instructions to receive a document template specifying one or more sections, each section comprising a set of labels for attributes and receive two or more automatically generated documents, each comprising the set of labels for attributes and values of each of those attributes. The system extracts the set of labels for attributes and values of each of those attributes from each of the two or more automatically generated documents. Finally, the system generates a tabular report comparing the values of each of the attributes and generates an alert for a human user if the value for any attribute in a first document is different from the value for that attribute in a second document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Inventors: Anshuman Behera, Raka Rajanigandha
  • Patent number: 11709640
    Abstract: A method for page management for use with an image forming apparatus includes receiving a request from a user for processing one or more pages of one or more documents. Further, the method includes displaying on a display (a) a thumbnail image generated for each page and (b) a plurality of options for processing the one or more pages. Furthermore, the method includes receiving a selection by the user of at least one option of the plurality of options. Thereafter, the method includes processing the one or more pages, according to the at least one option of the selection received from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Anusha Mairpady Ananda
  • Patent number: 11711609
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a pickup unit, a detecting unit configured to detect an attitude of the pickup unit, a rotation matrix generating unit configured to generate a rotation matrix, an encoder configured to encode image data of the moving image, a selecting unit configured to select one rotation matrix generating method from the plurality of rotation matrix generating methods according to an operation mode of the pickup unit when the moving image is photographed by the pickup unit, and a file generating unit configured to generate a data file by including the rotation matrix, which is generated by means of the selected rotation matrix generating method, in the encoded image data in a format, in which the angle when the reproducing apparatus displays the moving image can be corrected by the rotation matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mizuki Matsumoto, Shuichi Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 11706360
    Abstract: A storage device stores an operation history in which at least one of four types of data, picture, graphic, symbol, and keyword, in a first data set used in image formation on a sheet by the image forming device is associated with a setting data set manipulated by a user during the image formation. An image reading device reads an original document for use in forming an image and generates a second data set. A comparator compares at least one of the four types of data in each of the stored first data sets with at least corresponding one type of data in the second data set and selects the first data set consistent with the second data set. A screen creator uses the setting data set associated with the selected first data set to create a setting screen for image formation. A display device displays the created setting screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu Takahara
  • Patent number: 11695891
    Abstract: An object is to improve convenience for a user to lay out image data by displaying a trimming region when necessary. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores a program that causes a computer to function as a display control unit capable of displaying a screen having a first region in which to place an object and a second region surrounding the first region, and configured to switch to displaying or to hiding the second region in the screen according to a setting indicating whether to display or to hide the second region. In a case when the setting indicates hiding the second region, the display control unit displays the second region based on a position of the object in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshinori Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11693389
    Abstract: A shaping data combining process of an external PC to which 3D data indicating a shaped object shaped by a 3D printer is input for each 3D job includes: a step of generating shaping data based on the 3D job, a step of combining a plurality of shaping data to generate combined shaping data to fill a margin region where the shaping of the shaped object is not performed with respect to a shapeable region of the 3D printer, and a step of transmitting the combined shaping data to the 3D printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu Kawabata
  • Patent number: 11681484
    Abstract: A set of computer-readable instructions, when executed by a computer in an information processing device, causes the information processing device to perform: a setting process; and in response to receiving a print instruction in which a cut print setting is set: a generation process; and a transmission process. The setting process sets the cut print setting for printing an image on a sheet and dividing the printed sheet at a center position thereof in a prescribed direction. The generation process acquires first and second page data representing respective ones of first and second target images to generate layout image data representing a layout image in which first and second images corresponding to respective ones of the first and second target images are arranged adjacent to each other in the prescribed direction. The transmission process transmits print data based on the layout image data and a cut command to a printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yushi Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11669283
    Abstract: An information processing system performs processing of a print job including a quality requirement of a quality verification of a print product and inputs verification result data created in a verifier, searches a correspondence table corresponding to the verifier that created the verification result data in which each parameter of a description document and an element of the input verification result data are associated, and using the searched correspondence table, converts a value of each element of the input verification result data to a value of a corresponding parameter of the description document. A description document of the predetermined format including the converted value of each parameter is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Anno
  • Patent number: 11665300
    Abstract: A method and system for managing storage of scanned document in Multi-Function Printer (MFP). The method comprises receiving document and request for scanning the document. Further, the method comprises determining options for storing the document, based on properties for scanning the document and current capacity of storage unit. Each of the options indicates image file format for the document and at least one of color mode or image resolution for the document. Furthermore, the method comprises providing the options for receiving selection from user. Thereafter, the method comprises storing, the scanned version of the document in the storage unit, based on option selected by the user. The method and system ensures that the scanning of the document is performed even when the sufficient capacity is not available in the MFP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Pallavi H B, Hariharasudhan Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 11662876
    Abstract: Computer-implemented design tool functions are described herein for recognizing organized collections of objects in a design layout, and providing controls to manipulate, in a selected organized collection, individual objects and arrangements of multiple objects. In an embodiment, a computing device determines whether an arrangement of selected objects in a design layout satisfies certain criteria, and if so, the computing device recognizes the arrangement as an organized collection, and provides controls within a selected organized collection to perform various operations to manipulate an individual object within the selected organized collection while automatically and dynamically modifying the organized collection to maintain desired uniformity in the collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Figma, Inc.
    Inventors: Rasmus Mathias Andersson, Ryan Jonathan Kaplan, Shuaihang Wang, Joshua Shi, Badrul Farooqi, Dave Pagurek van Mossel
  • Patent number: 11659129
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller and a display. The controller is configured to (a) acquire first image data, (b) acquire multiple sets of image data, each set of image data corresponding to a reading of an object by a scanner, and (c) generate second image data corresponding to the object based on the sets image data. The display is configured to display both (a) a first image based on the first image data and (b) a second image based on the second image data, the first image being superimposed on the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shin Kamii
  • Patent number: 11651606
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for extracting data from a document. An example method generally includes identifying a bounding polygon of the region from an electronic image of the document and extracting data from within the bounding polygon of the region. The method further includes generating revised extracted data based on the extracted data, and combining the revised extracted data with other data extracted from the electronic image of the document to generate input data for a data processing application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: INTUIT, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Anthony, Amar J. Mattey, Sricharan Kallur Palli Kumar
  • Patent number: 11650217
    Abstract: When a user creates a template to be used for the creation of an analysis report, a check result record area can be set at an appropriate location in a basic template. The content of the information and other elements to be placed in the check result record area can also be set. With this function, the check result record area can be set for each report item to be checked, with the following elements arranged in the area: a dropdown list for selecting the check result which indicates acceptance/rejection of the content; a character string in which the date and time of checking and the checker's name are automatically inserted; and a text box for describing the reason for rejection (if rejected). In the checking process, the checker inputs those items of information, whereby the result of the check of the content is electronically recorded for each report item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Ono
  • Patent number: 11640625
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, instructions, and methods for computer based automated content generation, curation, and presentation are described. In one embodiment a content collection is generated with a first continuous presentation group by associating a first content element from a first content message of the plurality of content messages and a second content element from a second content message of the plurality of content messages to associate the first content element and the second content element as the first continuous presentation group. Advertising element placement within the presentation order for the first media collection is determined, and adjusted to avoid interrupting the continuous presentation group. In other embodiments, various advertising patterns are used and adjusted based on curated presentation groups within content collections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Jacob Andreou
  • Patent number: 11637945
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus for inspection of a sheet on which a code image obtained by encoding predetermined information is printed includes: a first acquisition unit which acquires positional information indicating a position and a size of the code image in the sheet; a second acquisition unit which acquires a plurality of read images obtained by a plurality of reading units reading different portions of the sheet, respectively, wherein the read images become an image indicating the entire sheet by being combined; a determination unit which determines whether any one of the read images includes the entire code image based on the positional information; and an extraction unit which extracts the predetermined information by, in a case where there is a read image including the entire code image, reading the code image in that read image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Chiaki Numata
  • Patent number: 11630614
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processing section that generates, based on image data, print data obtained by performing RIP processing on the image data and preview data smaller in data size than the print data, and a storage section that stores the preview data, in which when an update of a preview of a print image based on the print data is accepted, the processing section updates data used for the preview by using the preview data read from the storage section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Ryotaro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11630408
    Abstract: An optical sensor comprises a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, a light-receiving element, a first amplifier circuit and a second amplifier circuit. The light-receiving element receives reflected light from an object to be measured, and outputs an output value on the basis of a light receiving result of the light-receiving element. The amplifier circuits amplifies the output value output from the light-receiving element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryuichi Araki
  • Patent number: 11609726
    Abstract: A system includes a spool directory accessible by a mobile computing device and an imaging device. A user selects for imaging on the imaging device a file accessible by the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device saves the file on the spool directory with a unique name Upon the user accessing the imaging device for imaging, the imaging device generates a unique quick response code. The user captures the code with a camera of the mobile computing device and the code is used by the mobile computing device to rename the file on the spool directory. That the imaging device knows the quick response code, the imaging device accesses and prints the file on media for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Larraine Belleza Caño, Richmond Fajardo Enriquez, Froilan Balaga Guioguio, Jr., Ralph Lester Borces Rabor, Christopher Gerald Gamboa Santos
  • Patent number: 11609930
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method, including: receiving, by a processing system including a processor, a request to play content; querying, by the processing system, for matches between the content and a user library; receiving, by the processing system, recommendations for alternate content of the user library and associated cue points in the content; and presenting, by the processing system, portions of the content and presenting other portions of the content replaced with the alternate content at the associated cue points. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Gratz, Jason DeCuir, Eric Zavesky
  • Patent number: 11593040
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to obtain PJL data via a data interface, and add target PJL data to the obtained PJL data with reference to filter data stored in a non-volatile memory. The target PJL data is PJL data intended for causing the image forming apparatus to perform a particular process. The filter data includes data for adding the target PJL data to the obtained PJL data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Itogawa
  • Patent number: 11590770
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a pattern extracting unit for, based on a comparison between first image data representing a pattern and second image data generated by imaging a fabric transported, extracting a pattern region from the second image data, a printing image generation unit for arranging third image data representing an image to be printed overlaid on the pattern in accordance with a positional relationship between the pattern regions to generate printing image data, and a printing control unit for causing a printing unit to print the printing image data on the fabric transported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Kayahara
  • Patent number: 11571912
    Abstract: A tiltable mounting device is for mounting cylindrical objects with a top surface and a lateral surface, and for tilting the objects relative to a reference plane. The device has a frame, and one or more mandrels, each configured to mount a cylindrical object. Each mandrel is rotatable about a longitudinal axis, and is tiltable in the frame between first and second positions. The longitudinal axis of each mandrel in the first position is oriented perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the respective mandrel in the second position. In the first position, each mandrel is oriented with the top surface of the object in the reference plane, and in the second position, each mandrel is oriented such that the lateral surface of the cylindrical object is tangent to the reference plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: VINVENTIONS USA, LLC
    Inventors: Jens Peter Jäger, Karl Helmut Thate
  • Patent number: 11567719
    Abstract: Methods for identifying and generating a preview set of documents for use with variable data printing operations reduce the number of records that are previewed using filtering criteria. Records to be included in the preview set include text objects having text variables, image objects having image variables, and barcode objects having barcode variables. Records for the preview set also include those defined by rules and associated conditions based on data provided to generate the documents. A better representation of the variable data print job is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Javier A. Morales
  • Patent number: 11561741
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores a computer program for setting a shape of a label causing a computer to execute: receiving an input of first information for setting a width of a second part in a first direction; receiving an input of second information for setting a height in a second direction of a display area of the second part; receiving an input of third information for setting a height in the second direction of an overlap width area of the second part, an end portion of the display area in a third direction being capable of adhering to the overlap width area; receiving an input of fourth information for setting a height of a first protruding portion in the second direction; and setting a shape of the label, based on the input first information, second length information, third length information and fourth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takayuki Ehara
  • Patent number: 11551350
    Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus. An obtaining unit obtains a first image serving as a read image of an inspection target medium having undergone printing, and a second image serving as a read image of a reference medium representing a target print result. An inspection unit inspects a defect on the inspection target medium based on the first image and the second image by performing inspection at inspection settings different between a print region and a peripheral region of the inspection target medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ishii, Toshihiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11553104
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes multiple network interfaces, multiple storage areas for saving data, an obtaining unit, and a presenting unit. The multiple network interfaces are connected to corresponding networks. For each of the multiple storage areas, a network interface permitted as an output path of the saved data is defined. The obtaining unit obtains network information indicating a network available to a group to which each user belongs. The presenting unit presents to a user a list of storage areas selectable as a data storage destination. The presenting unit presents a list of storage areas for which a network interface connected to a network available to the group to which the user belongs, which is indicated by the network information, is defined as the output path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Noriyuki Tatsuma
  • Patent number: 11537750
    Abstract: In a case of receiving an access request to a target image, an image access management device can provide an appropriate access right holder with an appropriate range of information by determining a browsing level with respect to the target image according to an access authority or purpose included in the access request to the target image, by an access management unit, by generating a final image that corresponds to the access authority by processing the feature vector according to the browsing level, and providing the generated final image as a response to the access request, by an image generation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Martin Klinkigt, Mohit Chhabra, Atsushi Hiroike, Tomokazu Murakami